YouTube clips calling out her “fake” accent abound and an episode of a cookery show, in which she momentarily struggles to remember the word “cucumber”, has gone viral. Baldwin does appear to speak Spanish flawlessly.

Is Alec Baldwin Spanish?

Over the last week or so, millions of people, cooped up and tired and probably too online at the end of the year, have been surprised to learn that Hilaria Baldwin (36) and the mother of five children with her husband, the actor Alec Baldwin, is not a Spaniard but an American who was born and raised in Boston and who ...

Does Alec Baldwin know his wife is not Spanish?

Questions also have arisen about what Alec Baldwin knew about his wife's true heritage. He told David Letterman in 2013 that his wife was “from Spain,” and he jokingly imitated her Spanish accent. In an interview with The New York Times, Hilaria Baldwin said she never claimed she was from Spain.