Alec Baldwin
Childhood Of Celebrities : Alec Baldwin
Baldwin was born in Amityville, New York, to parents Alexander Rae Baldwin II and Carol Newcomb Martineau. The Baldwin siblings attended Alfred G. Berner High School in Massapequa, Long Island. Alec (Class of 1976) and Daniel (Class of 1979) played football there under Coach Bob Reifsnyder, who is in the College Football Hall of Fame.
Baldwin is frequently described as Irish American, though his background includes English, Irish, and German ancestry on his father’s side and distant French and Canadian ancestry on his mother’s. His maternal grandmother was born in Nova Scotia; his Irish ancestry comes from his paternal great-grandmother, Helen Irene McNamara.
Baldwin used to work as a busboy at the famous New York City disco Studio 54. Baldwin attended George Washington University from 1976 to 1979, where he was known as “Alex.” After losing a student body president election, he transferred to New York University to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute under Elaine Aiken and Geoffrey Horne. He then returned to NYU in 1994 and graduated with a BFA that year.
The other Baldwin brothers, Daniel Baldwin (Homicide: Life on the street), William Baldwin (Backdraft), and Stephen Baldwin (The Usual Suspects) all followed him in becoming well-known actors.
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Judd was born in Granada Hills, California to Michael Ciminella, Jr., an Italian American marketing analyst for the horseracing industry, and Naomi Judd, a well-known country music singer; she has a half-sister, Wynonna Judd, who is also a country music singer. At the time of her birth, her mother was working as a nurse, and wouldn’t become well-known as a singer along with her daughter Wynonna until the early 1980s. Judd’s parents divorced in 1972, and in 1974, her mother took her back to her own native Kentucky, where Judd grew up in poverty. The family sometimes lived without running water, electricity, or a telephone.
Amlie is four years old when she watches the 1983 French Open final between Yannick Noah and Mats Wilander with her parents. In fact, she gets so wrapped up in the game that her parents buy her a racquet. At six year old, they enrol Amlie in the Bornel tennis club. Amlie remembers: “I remember my first tennis instructor. Her name was Inger Delamare. She was the first one to notice my potential. Then there was Philippe Leroy, whom I met at Bornel and met again at TC Mru. He was the epitome of what a great teacher should be. And he was just a wonderful person.” With Patrick Simon as her coach, Amlie’s progresses by leaps and bounds. So much so that three years later, the Faise du Tennis, the French Tennis Federation (FFT), sees her talent and invites her to join the Tennis/School program in Blois. Amlie is 11 years old. She is thrilled and her parents can only resign themselves to watching her go. “Even then, tennis was my passion. But after three years, I knew for sure that I wanted to be a professional 
