The youngest of the acting Baldwin brothers, Stephen Baldwin was the last to enter show business. After working in a Manhattan pizza parlor and as a Calvin Klein model, the fair-haired player began landing small roles in films (e.g., "Homeboy" 1988, "Last Exit to Brooklyn" and "Born on the Fourth of July" both 1989). Baldwin earned a degree of stardom playing the young 'Buffalo Bill' Cody on the Western TV saga of the Pony Express, "The Young Riders" (ABC, 1989-92). Based on his small screen popularity, he began landing more substantial roles, generally cast as a doofy, irresponsible guy, in 90s films like "Posse" (1993), as an irreverent Caucasian gang member, "8 Seconds" (1994), as Luke Perry's best friend and stiffest competition on the rodeo circuit, and "Threesome" (also 1994), which offered the actor his first lead as a party-loving college student in a co-ed suite. Few of his subsequent films, however, have fully capitalized on his abilities. The primary and notable exception was Bryan Singer's "The Usual Suspects" (1995) which cast him as a hot-headed thief. But efforts like the lame comedy "Bio-Dome" (1996), teaming Baldwin with Pauly Shore, hurt his career. He was poised to break out of his rut, however, with leading roles in two 1998 projects: "Dean Koontz's 'Mr. Murder'", an ABC TV-movie, cast him as a mystery writer whose life is nearly destroyed by a madman while "One Tough Cop" was a biopic of maverick policeman Bo Dietl adapted from Dietl's memoir.