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Adam Baldwin


Mostly Credited As: Adam Baldwin
Date Of Birth: February 27, 1962 (Age 54)
Country Of Birth: USA
Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois
Height: 6' 4" (1.93 m)

Adam Baldwin


Adam was born in Chicago in 1962 and attended North Tier Township High School. It was while attending high school that he got his first acting role in a film, 'My Bodyguard', directed by Tony Bill. He received praise for his role and was soon cast in the film, 'Ordinary People'. Unfortunately, it took 4 years after that for his next film, the 1983 'D.C. Cab'. He had a couple other roles until he landed the lead in the film, '3:15'.

In 1986, Adam moved to L.A. to further pursue his career. While in L.A., he took a job as a truck driver to make ends meet. That same year he landed his first L.A. film, 'Bad Guys', in which he was one of the lead characters. It would be in 1987, that he would reach the high point in his career to date. Adam landed the role of Animal Mother in the Stanley Kubrick classic, 'Full Metal Jacket'. The next three years would see him in four more films. The last two being 'Next of Kin' and 'Predator 2'. The early 90's saw him in a few made-for-television movies and small roles in the films, 'Wyatt Earp' and 'How to Make an American Quilt' in 1994 and 1995 respectfully. In 1996, Adam was cast into a role in the summer blockbuster, 'Independence Day'. That definitely got his face out into a larger number of peoples eyes.

That same year, he got his first taste of network prime time television with a role on the short-lived series, 'The Cape'. He followed that up with another TV movie 'Smoke Jumpers' and a spot on the series, 'The Visitor'. In 1998, he landed a part in the Tom Hanks HBO mini-series, 'From the Earth to the Moon' and in the next year worked with Francis Ford Coppola in 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'.

Adam started the new millennium with a role in the Mel Gibson film, 'The Patriot', in which he played an English Loyalist who betrayed his neighbors. In 2001, he did a string of three Indie films before getting a part on Fox's critically acclaimed series, 'The X-Files'. From that he went on to star in the short-lived Joss Whedon sci-fi show, 'Firefly'. After that he did a string of television spots on 'CSI: Miami', 'JAG', and 'Stargate SG-1' before teaming up with Joss Whedon again as Marcus Hamilton for five of the last six episodes of 'Angel'.

In this time, he has also done a lot of voice work for the animated programs, 'Men in Black', 'Jackie Chan Adventures', 'Static Shock', and 'Justice League Unlimited'.

More recently, in 2005, Adam starred in another short-lived Fox crime drama, 'The Inside' just after rejoining Joss Whedon again and reprising his role as Jayne Cobb and filming the movie adaptation of 'Firefly' called 'Serenity'. He also did a made-for-TV remake to the classic action film, 'The Poseidon Adventure'. Currently, Adam has a film, 'The Thirst', slated to come out later in 2006 and ABC has picked up Day Break for a midseason start, probably in January of 2007.


TV Appearances

Main cast 
The Last Ship (2014)As: XO Mike Slattery
Chuck (2007)As: Colonel John Casey (S01-S05)
Day Break (2006)As: Chad Shelten
The Inside (2005)As: Special Agent Danny Love
Firefly (2002)As: Jayne Cobb
Jackie Chan Adventures (2000)As: Finn -- [Voice]
The Cape (1996) (1996)As: Col. Jack Riles
Episode Cast Credits 

Beware The Batman (2013) 
  Alone 01x26: (Sep/28/2014) Voiced  Metamorpho 
  Monsters 01x17: (Sep/06/2014) Voiced  Metamorpho 
  Toxic 01x06: (Aug/17/2013) Voiced  Rex Mason / Metamorpho 

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) 
  Twenty-Five Acts 14x03: (Oct/10/2012) As Captain Steven Harris 
  Above Suspicion (2) 14x02: (Sep/26/2012) As Captain Steven Harris 
  Lost Reputation (1) 14x01: (Sep/26/2012) As Captain Steven Harris 

Leverage (2008) 
  The Rundown Job 05x09: (Sep/16/2012) As Colonel Michael Vance 
  The (Very) Big Bird Job 05x01: (Jul/15/2012) As Eliot's CTU Friend, [Uncredited]

Castle (2009) (2009) 
  Headhunters 04x21: (Apr/16/2012) As Detective Ethan Slaughter 

Young Justice (2010) 
  Performance 01x24: (Apr/07/2012) Voiced  Parasite 

Transformers Prime (2010) 
  Crossfire 02x07: (Mar/31/2012) Voiced  Breakdown 
  Stronger, Faster 01x22: (Sep/17/2011) Voiced  Breakdown 
  T.M.I. 01x21: (Sep/10/2011) Voiced  Breakdown 
  Out of His Head 01x14: (May/07/2011) Voiced  Breakdown 

Love Bites (2011) (2011) 
  Modern Plagues 01x08: (Jul/21/2011) As Hotel representative 

CSI: NY (2004) 
  Hostage 04x21: (May/21/2008) As Brett Dunbar 

Superman (1996) (1996) 
  Superman: Doomsday (Sep/18/2007) Voiced  Superman/Clark Kent/Renegade Superman 

Bones (2005) 
  Two Bodies in the Lab 01x15: (Mar/15/2006) As Agent Jamie Kenton 

Justice League Unlimited (2001) 
  Task Force X 04x04: (May/21/2005) Voiced  Rick Flagg 
  The Once and Future Thing: Time, Warped (2) 03x13: (Jan/29/2005) Voiced  Bonk 
  The Once and Future Thing: Weird Western Tales (1) 03x12: (Jan/22/2005) Voiced  Jonah Hex 

Angel (1999) 
  Not Fade Away 05x22: (May/19/2004) As Hamilton 
  Power Play 05x21: (May/12/2004) As Hamilton 
  Time Bomb 05x19: (Apr/28/2004) As Hamilton 
  Origin 05x18: (Apr/21/2004) As Hamilton 

NCIS (2003) 
  A Weak Link 01x22: (May/18/2004) As Cdr. Rainer 

Stargate SG-1 (1997) 
  Heroes, Part 2 07x18: (Feb/20/2004) As Colonel Dave Dixon 
  Heroes (1) 07x17: (Feb/13/2004) As Colonel Dave Dixon 

JAG (1995) 
  Good Intentions 09x13: (Jan/16/2004) As Cmdr. Rainer 

CSI: Miami (2002) 
  Dead Woman Walking 01x15: (Feb/10/2003) As De Soto 

The X-Files (1993) 
  The Truth (2) 09x20: (May/19/2002) As Knowle Rohrer 
  The Truth (1) 09x19: (May/19/2002) As Knowle Rohrer 
  Nothing Important Happened Today II (2) 09x02: (Nov/18/2001) As Knowle Rohrer 
  Existence (2) 08x21: (May/20/2001) As Knowle Rohrer 

The Zeta Project (2001) 
  Crime Waves 01x09: (Apr/14/2001) Voiced  Sven 

Static Shock (2000) 
  Aftershock 01x02: (Sep/30/2000) Voiced  York 

The Outer Limits (1995) (1995) 
  Phobos Rising 04x24: (Dec/04/1998) As Maj. James Bowen 

The Visitor (1997) 
  Going Home 01x10: (Dec/05/1997) As Michael O'Ryan 
  Caged 01x09: (Nov/14/1997) As Michael O'Ryan 
  Reunion 01x08: (Nov/07/1997) As Michael O'Ryan 
  Teufelsnacht 01x07: (Oct/31/1997) As Michael O'Ryan 

VR.5 (1995) 
  Pilot 01x01: (Mar/10/1995) As Scott Cooper 

Another Day (1978) 
  ??x??: (Unknown/Unaired) As Major Mitchell 
Trivia

Recorded his own version of the song "The Man They Call Jayne" for use as an easter-egg feature in the DVD collection of Firefly.

He is 6 feet, 4 inches tall.

Adam is not related to "The Baldwin Brothers".

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