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Alec Baldwin has been the host of The New York Philharmonic This Week, the Orchestra's 52-week-per-year nationally broadcast radio series, since 2009. He has also hosted the Philharmonic's appearances on Live From Lincoln Center on PBS. In December 2010 he was elected to the Orchestra's Board of Directors.

About Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin received 2008 and 2009 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his starring role in the current television series 30 Rock; he won the 2007 Golden Globe, SAG, and Television Critics Association awards for the same role. The Long Island native also has starred on Knot's Landing on CBS and numerous other television shows. On Broadway he appeared in The Roundabout Theatre Company's 2006 revival of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane, directed by Scott Ellis, and in Roundabout's 2004 revival of Hecht and MacArthur's The Twentieth Century, directed by Walter Bobbie. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in the 1992 revival of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, and for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe for the television movie of the same production. He won an Obie Award for the 1991 Off-Broadway production of Craig Lucas's Prelude to a Kiss, and a Theatre World Award in 1986 for his turn on Broadway in Joe Orton's Loot.

Alec Baldwin's films include Beetlejuice, Miami Blues, The Hunt for Red October, Malice, The Shadow, Glengarry Glen Ross, Heaven's Prisoners, Ghosts of Mississippi, The Edge, The Cat in the Hat, The Aviator, The Departed, Running with Scissors, The Good Shepherd, and It's Complicated. He received the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Cooler, directed by Wayne Kramer (2003), and was nominated for an Oscar for the same film. Mr. Baldwin is the author of A Promise to Ourselves (St. Martin's Press).

Mr. Baldwin made his New York Philharmonic debut narrating the Inside the Music program on October 10, 2008, and served as the Narrator in Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat in May 2010 during The Russian Stravinsky: A Philharmonic Festival. In the 2009–10 season he became the host of the Philharmonic's national radio series, The New York Philharmonic This Week, a role he continues in the 2010–11 season. During those two seasons he also has been the host for the New York Philharmonic's appearances on Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts on PBS.