The Complicated Life of Hollywood Star Alec Baldwin

He transferred to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied acting in New York and began taking the craft more seriously. At the same time, he worked at Studio 54, the famous nightclub that became a symbol of celebrity, excess, fashion, and late-1970s nightlife.

That job gave him a strange early view of fame before he had any of his own. Baldwin was close enough to watch famous people move through the room, but still far from being one of them, and acting school was only the beginning.