Alec Baldwin announced that his 92-year-old mother died on Thursday in a heartfelt obituary he posted on Instagram.
Carol Baldwin, the mother of the 64-year-old actor and her five siblings, died in Syracuse, New York, the same city where she was born and raised, went to college and met her husband.
Alec Baldwin posted photos with his mother when he was a teenager and later. She noted her mother’s devotion to breast cancer support and funding for research after she herself survived the disease.
“My mother taught me about the second acts. And so did the third, “she said, referring to her personal battle with breast cancer.” She spent the last 25 years of her life as a fighter and champion of the cause to which she devoted so much energy. “
Matriarch Baldwin, who also has 25 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, was born Carol Newcomb Martineau on December 15, 1929.
Carol Baldwin, along with her son Alec Baldwin in her teens, died in her hometown of Syracuse, New York. Getty Images
She met her husband, Alexander Baldwin Jr., of Brooklyn, while they were both students at Syracuse University. They married and had six children, who were raised on Long Island until the death of Alexander Baldwin at the age of 55 in 1983.
Carol Baldwin raised her children as a single mother and took a job in marketing research at a local mall when she was a teenager.
In 1991, the mother of six was diagnosed with breast cancer. She overcame cancer and later helped launch the Carol M Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund at Stony Brook University with the support of the then president of the university. A few years later, a second chapter began at SUNY Upstate University.
Carol Baldwin met her husband, Alexander Baldwin Jr., while they were both students at Syracuse University, as they had six children.
The combined efforts have raised millions of dollars for the cause, according to the obituary.
“We’re all hugely proud of his accomplishments,” Alec Baldwin said.
Alec Baldwin’s niece Hailey Bieber shared her post on her Instagram stories with the headline, “We Love You Grandma.”