Adam Baldwin

Appearing in dozens of films since 1980 Baldwin rose to prominence as the troubled outcast Ricky Linderman in My Bodyguard 1980 and moved on to bigger roles in DC Cab 1983 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Independence Day 1996 The Patriot 2000 and Serenity 2005in which he reprises his role as the mercenary Jayne Cobb from the television series Firefly His other work includes Radio Flyer 1992 From the Earth to the Moon 1998 The XFiles Knowle Rohrer Smoke Jumpers 1996 The Cape Men in Black The Series Stargate SG1 Angel The Inside NCIS and the 2005 remake of The Poseidon Adventure He also starred in the ABC series Day Break as Chad Shelten in 2006 Baldwin parodied the Ricky Linderman character in the 2008 film Drillbit Taylor Baldwin won a SyFy Genre Award in 2006 for Best Supporting ActorTelevision for his role as Jayne Cobb in the television series Firefly Baldwin was cast as Clark KentSuperman in the first DC animated universe movie Superman Doomsday based on DC Comics The Death of Superman and is currently costarring in the NBC television show Chuck as NSA Agent John Casey The show premiered September 24 2007 Baldwin has a role as a voice actor in the Xbox 360 games Halo 3 and Halo 3 ODST the latter putting him in the role of Cpl Taylor Dutch Miles Baldwin also appears as a voice actor in Half Life 2 Episode 2 for various resistance soldiers and citizens Adam also appeared in Mass Effect 2 playing the role of Quarian marine KalReegar Baldwin was born in Chicago Illinois and studied at New Trier Township High School East in Winnetka Illinois He has three children with his wife Ami He has been a registered voter with the Democratic Party since 1980 but admits reexamining his views after being given a copy of David Horowitzs book Radical Son Politically he considers himself a small government conservative libertarian and has contributed blogs to the Huffington Post and Big Hollywood As a hobby he also collects and posts links to varying viewpoints on his Twitter feed