Alec Baldwin’s mother has died. Baldwin took to Instagram Thursday night to announce the death of Carol M. Baldwin. She was 92. In his heartfelt post, Baldwin mourned his mother and also shared a bit of his family’s history the legacy Carol leaves behind.
“It is with the deepest regret that my family posts the following statement,” Baldwin began. “Carol M. Baldwin, mother of actors Alec, Daniel, William and Stephen Baldwin and two daughters, Elizabeth and Jane, died today in Syracuse, New York. She was 92.”
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He continued, “Born Carol Newcomb Martineau, in Syracuse on December 15, 1929, she was the child of Roy and Marion Martineau and had one brother, Daniel, and five sisters, Patricia, Joan, Diane, Louise and Rebecca. She met her future husband, Alexander R. Baldwin Jr., of Brooklyn, NY, while both attended Syracuse University.”
Baldwin shared that while his parents met in Brooklyn, his father moved the family to Long Island, where they were raised and where his father worked and lived until his death in 1983.
“In 1954, Alec, as the father was also called, moved the family to Long Island where he taught history and coached football and riflery at Massapequa High School until his death, at age 55, in 1983,” Baldwin shared. “Carol Baldwin raised her children and, when her last was a teenager, went to work in marketing research for a firm called Quick Test, operating out of a local shopping mall.”
While the 30 Rock actor did not share Carol’s cause of death, he did reveal her history with breast cancer and her work in championing breast cancer research.
