Actor Alec Baldwin has filed multiple lawsuits in the state of New Mexico alleging malicious prosecution and civil rights violations in his trial over the 2021 Rust movie shooting death.

Baldwin, 66, on Thursday local time sued New Mexico prosecutors,  sheriff’s office officials and others following the dramatic dismissal of his manslaughter case during last year.

A Santa Fe judge in July ruled the prosecutor and sheriff’s office withheld evidence on the source of a live round that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Baldwin’s action against prosecutor Kari Morrissey, Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office Corporal Alexandria Hancock and others is among at least a dozen civil lawsuits filed over Hutchins’ death, which shocked Hollywood and sparked calls for an overhaul of firearms safety on movie sets.

Baldwin’s lawyers Luke Nikas and Heather LeBlanc demanded a jury trial to seek damages for malicious abuse of process, intentional spoliation of evidence and defamation, among other complaints.

Morrissey and the sheriff’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Ukrainian-born cinematographer Hutchins died when Baldwin pointed his pistol at her, cocked it and possibly pulled the trigger as they set up a camera shot on a movie set near Santa Fe, according to his lawyers.

The real gun, a reproduction 1873 Single Action Army revolver, fired a live round inadvertently loaded by Hannah Gutierrez, the movie’s weapons handler.

Gutierrez was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in March and sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment.

The movie’s weapons handler was sentenced to 18 months in jail over the death. Photo: AAP

Rust debuted at Poland’s Camerimage Festival in November, three years after the Hutchins’ tragic death.

Baldwin was later that month honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the 42nd Torino Film Festival in Italy, where he described the Rust tragedy and its aftermath as “the most difficult thing I’ve ever dealt with in my life”.

“Beyond the victims themselves, the thing that most pains me is what it did to my wife. My wife has been very, very traumatised from this. There has been a lot of pain,” he told reporters.

“We are trying to get the wind in our sails, to get away from this stuff. Because the film doesn’t stand by itself. It’s always going to be overshadowed by this.”

-with AAP