Born: Benjamin Geza Affleck
Height: 6' 2½
Sex: Male
Nationality: American
Date of birth: August 15, 1972
Birth Place: Berkeley, California, USA
Profession: Actor
Education: University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont (Dropped out after one semester), Occidental College, Eagle Rock, California (was attending when he made School Ties in 1992; Dropped out after one year; Studied Middle Eastern Studies)
Wife: Jennifer Garner (actress; born April 17, 1972; dating since 2004; married on June 29, 2005 at the Parrot Cay resort in the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos)
Relationship: Jennifer Lopez (actress; born July 24, 1970; dated July 2002-January 2004), Gwyneth Paltrow (actress; born September 28, 1972; dated 1998-2000), Cheyenne Rothman (dated on and off since high school)
Father: Timothy Affleck (drug rehab counselor; divorced)
Mother: Christine Ann (née Boldt, a school district employee and teacher; divorced)
Brother: Casey Affleck (actor; born on August 12, 1975)
Sister-in-law: Summer Phoenix (actress; born on December 10, 1978; married on June 3, 2006), Susannah Kay Garner Carpenter (born on January 24, 1975), Melissa Garner Wiley (born in 1969)
Daughter: Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck (born on January 6, 2009; mother: Jennifer Garner), Violet Anne Affleck (born on December 1, 2005 at 6:26, mother: Jennifer Garner)
Claim to fame: As the writer of Good Will Hunting (1997)
Filmography
The Town (Warner Bros.) (2010)
Extract (2009)
He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
State of Play (2009)
Smokin' Aces (2007)
Clerks II (2006)
Hollywoodland (2006)
Man About Town (2006)
Jersey Girl (2004)
Surviving Christmas (2004)
The Third Wheel (2004)
Daredevil (2003)
Gigli (2003)
Paycheck (2003)
Changing Lanes (2002)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Daddy & Them (2001)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Boiler Room (2000)
Bounce (2000)
Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)
Reindeer Games (2000)
200 Cigarettes (1999)
Dogma (1999)
Forces of Nature (1999)
Armageddon (1998)
Phantoms (1998)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Chasing Amy (1997)
Going All the Way (1997)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Glory Daze (1996)
Mallrats (1995)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
School Ties (1992)
Career Highlights
1984: Appeared in PBS documentary series The Voyage of the Mimi
1986: Made network TV debut in an ABC Afterschool Special, entitled Wanted: The Perfect Guy ; played Madeline Kahn s son
1987: TV miniseries debut in Hands of a Stranger (NBC)
1992: Feature film debut, School Ties ; also co-starred with childhood pal Matt Damon
1993: Had regular role on the short-lived NBC series Against the Grain
1995: Directed short film I Murdered My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meathook and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney
1996: Sold his script, Good Will Hunting to Miramax; co-written with Matt Damon; filmed and released in 1997 with both co-starring
1997: Charmed critics and audiences as a comic book artist who falls for a bisexual woman in Kevin Smith s Chasing Amy
1998: Appeared opposite Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes in the award winning Shakespeare in Love
1998: Co-starred in the Michael Bay blockbuster Armageddon
1999: Played a bartender in the ensemble comedy-drama 200 Cigarettes
1999: Re-teamed with director Kevin Smith for Dogma ; also re-teamed with Damon to play a pair of renegade angels
2000: Led the ensemble cast of The Boiler Room, about Wall Street brokers
2000: Re-teamed with Gwyneth Paltrow for Bounce
2000: With Damon and backed by HBO and Miramax, sponsored Project Greenlight, a screenwriting competition that would result in a produced motion picture
2001: Had leading role in the WWII-era drama Pearl Harbor
2001: Made a brief appearance in Kevin Smith s Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back ; reprised role of Holden from Chasing Amy as well as appeared as himself
2001: With Damon, co-executive produced and acted in The Third Wheel (filmed in 1999), scripted by buddy Jay Lacopo
2002: Assumed the role of Jack Ryan (previously played by Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford) in The Sum of All Fears
2002: Co-created (with Sean Bailey) and executive produced (with Matt Damon) the short-lived ABC drama, Push, Nevada
2002: Executive produced and appeared in the HBO series Project Greenlight about the script writing contest he co-sponsored
2002: Served as an executive producer on Stolen Summer ; winner of the Project Greenlight competition
2003: Cast as Matt Murdock/Daredevil in the blockbuster, Daredevil, based on the Marvel comic book character
2003: Co-starred with Jennifer Lopez in the box office flop, Gigli
2003: Played the lead in the John Woo thriller Paycheck
2004: Re-teamed with director Kevin Smith for the romantic comedy Jersey Girl
2004: Starred as a lonely guy who rents himself a family for the holidays in the comedy Surviving Christmas
2006: Executive produced Feast a horror film, which is a result of the third season of the Project Greenlight contest
2006: Portrayed the 1950s Superman TV star George Reeves in Hollywoodland ; received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
2007 Directorial and writing debut, the feature adaptation of Gone, Baby, Gone ; based on the book by Mystic River author Dennis Lehane and starring his brother Casey Affleck
2009: Played Jason Bateman s best friend in Mike Judge s Extract
2009: Played a Congressman, opposite Russell Crowe, in the thriller State of Play
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