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Ben Affleck Profile |
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Birth Date:
August 15, 1972
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Birth Place:
Berkeley, CA, USA
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Birth Name: Benjamin Geza Affleck
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Height:
6'2½"
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Biography |
Born in Berkeley, California to Tim Affleck (of Protestant
Scottish descent) and Chris (of Irish Catholic ancestry), he
grew up in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area and attended
college in Los Angeles at Occidental College. He currently
lives in Santa Monica, California. He was a child actor,
having a role on the PBS kids' series The Voyage of the Mimi
and made-for-television movies when young. He came to
national attention when he and and his future best friend
Matt Damon (whom he had met while studying at Cambridge
Rindge and Latin School) wrote the screenplay for Good Will
Hunting (1997), for which they won an Academy Award for Best
Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
He is also known for his roles in many of Kevin Smith's
films - all of them, in fact, except for Clerks..
Along with Matt Damon and producer Chris Moore, Affleck
founded the production company LivePlanet, through which the
three friends created the documentary series Project
Greenlight.
Affleck's most recent films, including Gigli, and Surviving
Christmas have been critically panned and massive box office
bombs.
Affleck had a brief but high-profile romance with actress
Gwyneth Paltrow following her breakup with Brad Pitt. He
began dating actress/singer Jennifer Lopez, whom he met on
the set of Gigli. In 2002 it was announced that he was
engaged to Lopez, and the relationship between the two
received enormous attention by the entertainment media. Both
subsequently lost fans and credibility, probably due in part
to the saturation of Affleck/Lopez interviews and projects,
and especially after the notorious failure of Gigli, which
in part was due to the negative publicity which led to the
couple being dubbed "Bennifer". They broke up in 2004, with
both blaming the media attention. In 2005 he proposed to his
Daredevil costar, Alias star Jennifer Garner after nine
months of dating. In May 2005 it was announced that Garner
was pregnant, and they were married on June 29, 2005. |
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Other
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Fined $135 for driving in Massachusetts with a suspended
license. [1999]
Dated Gwyneth Paltrow. [1998 - Jan 1999]
Brother of actor Casey Affleck.
Friend of and frequent collaborator with actor Matt Damon.
Owns vintage Ms. Pac-Man and Millipede video-arcade games.
He was accidently knocked unconscious by football player
Dana Stubblefield during the filming of Reindeer Games
(2000). Stubblefield slipped, and Affleck was knocked down.
He was taken to the hospital, but fully recovered.
When he was little, he asked his mom for a dog, and she
tested him by making him walk an imaginary dog for a week.
Ben only lasted for 5 days and didn't get the dog.
Graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School in
1990.
Dropped out of the University of Vermont after 1 semester.
Dropped out of Occidental College after 1 year, where he had
studied Middle Eastern studies.
He and Matt Damon sold their Good Will Hunting (1997) script
for $600,000.
Has his teeth capped.
Owns 5 motorcycles.
Chosen as one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People
in the World [2000]
Chosen as one of People Magazine's Most Beautiful People in
the World [1999]
Auditioned for Corey Haim's part in License to Drive (1988).
Was an extra with friend Matt Damon in Field of Dreams
(1989).
Charlie Sheen drove him to Promises Rehabilitation Center in
August, 2001
Ranked #77 in Premiere's 2002 annual Power 100 List.
Is known for being a very good impressionist. He usually
picks one of his costars while filming a movie and studies
them. He displays his impressions on "The Tonight Show with
Jay Leno" (1992) almost every time he is a guest. While
filming The Sum of All Fears (2002), he chose to study
co-star Morgan Freeman. When he showed Morgan his impression
on set, itwas so accurate Freeman told him, "You ever do
that again, I'll kill you".
Confirms engagement to Jennifer Lopez, after giving her a
reported $3.5 million ring. (Nov. 2002)
His mother is Irish and father is Scottish.
Voluntarily entered Promises Rehabilitation Center in
Malibu, CA for alcohol abuse. [31 July 2001]
Named People's Sexiest Man Alive (2002)
He was inspired to contribute to the Neil Bogart Memorial
Fund, which supports cancer research at Los Angeles
Children's Hospital, after meeting Molly Hanna, who died of
cancer in 2002. She was a student in his mother's
fifth-grade class.
Growing up, the Marvel Comic book character Daredevil was
his hero. He got to play the character in the 2003 movie.
Ranked #41 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List.
Is getting paid $1.5 million dollars for doing commercials
for L'Oreal Shampoo. (2003)
Has a Boston Celtics logo painted on the basketball court at
his house.
In the fall of 2003, he volunteered to spend several days
with disabled children.
Is a devoted fan of the baseball team Boston Red Sox
Speaks Spanish.
Dated Jennifer Lopez [July 2002 - January 2004].
Jennifer Lopez wrote the song "Dear Ben" about him and how
much she loved him.
With the exception of Clerks. (1994), he has appeared in all
of Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse films.
He learned to speak Arabic.
He won $356,000 by winning the California State Poker
Championships in June 2004 - defeating some of the best
poker players in the world in the process.
Is a first-time uncle to younger brother Casey's son,
Indiana August, who was born on May 31st 2004 in Amsterdam
to Casey and his fiancee, actress Summer Phoenix, who is the
youngest sister and sibling to the late R'iver Phoenix' .
Appeared in a prop photo used in the movie Mermaids (1990).
In 2001, was filming four movies simultaneously: Pearl
Harbor (2001), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001),
Changing Lanes (2002), and The Sum of All Fears (2002).
When he was dating Jennifer Lopez, hated the paparazzi
referring to them as "Bennifer."
Is a staunch Democrat and has supported Senator John Kerry's
2004 presidential campaign.
In 1999, he was nominated for the Razzie Award, Worst Screen
Couple in the movie Armageddon (1998) with actress Liv
Tyler. In 2004, he was again nominated for, and subsequently
"won", the Worst Screen Couple Award with co-star Jennifer
Lopez in the movie Gigli (2003). One year later (2005), he
was nominated, once again, for Worst Screen Couple, this
time with both of the actresses (Jennifer Lopez or Liv
Tyler) in the film Jersey Girl (2004).
As of 2005, has a total of seven Razzie Nominations
(including three for Worst Actor) and two "wins".
His girlfriend Jennifer Garner announced she is 3 months
pregnant with their first baby. (May 7, 2005)
Prior to achieving leading man status, he was often cast as
a bully.
Had four different stunt men for Daredevil (2003), each one
with a different specialty (fighting, wire works, etc.). He
tried to do as much of his own stunts as he possibly could,
feeling that it would add more credibility to the film.
Is a fan of the Red Sox baseball team
Speaks French |
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