 Baldwin received two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, seven Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Television Critics Association Award for his portrayal of this character.John Francis Donaghy had an unhappy and impoverished childhood in South Boston and in the fictional suburb of Sadchester, Massachusetts.When he was two, Jack's presumed father lured him to the edge of a swimming pool with a puppy and pushed him in the pool, and later abandoned his family.