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Ben Affleck Wiki Biography

Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt was born on 15 August 1972, in Berkeley, California USA, and widely known under the name of Ben Affleck is as an actor, screenwriter, film director and producer, the winner of such first-rate international awards as Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA Awards among others.

So just how rich is Ben Affleck? Authoritative sources estimate that Ben’s net worth is now over $120 million, accumulated during a career in the entertainment industry which began as a child actor in the mid-1980s.

Ben was a child actor from seven years of age, taking part in commercials and in some small roles in TV films and series. He attended Cambridge Alternative Public School with friend and future star actor Matt Damon, and then reluctantly the University of Vermont and Occidental College California, before dropping out to pursue a career in films. Ben really opened his account on the big screen with the role of Chesty Smith in the film directed by Robert Mandel – “School Ties” – in 1992, then appeared in the films “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui, “Dazed and Confused” directed by Richard Linklater, “Chasing Amy” directed by Kevin Smith, “Glory Daze” directed by Rich Wilkes, and “Going All the Way” directed by Mark Pellington.

In 1997, Affleck was recognized not only as an outstanding actor but also as a great screenwriter. Together with co-writer Matt Damon, they won Academy, Golden Globe and Satellite Awards among others for their screen script for the film “Good Will Hunting”, directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Ben, Robin Williams, and Matt Damon in the title role. In addition to this, the cast of the film won a Screen Actors Guild Award for their outstanding performance. One successful film followed another, so in 1998 “Shakespeare in Love” and “Armageddon” were released, directed respectively by John Madden and Michael Bay. Affleck’s status and popularity rose as he won two MTV Movie awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award for roles in these films.

Ben has since worked on many successful films, including “Forces of Nature” directed by Bronwen Hughes co-starring with Sandra Bullock, “Pearl Harbor” directed by Michael Bay, “The Sum of All Fears” directed by Phil Alden Robinson and co-starring with Morgan Freeman, “Changing Lanes” directed by Roger Michell co-starring alongside Samuel L. Jackson, “Daredevil” directed by Mark Steven Johnson, and “He’s Just Not That Into You” directed by Ken Kwapis, co-starring with Jennifer Aniston, an impressive line-up indeed.

In 2010 the crime drama film “The Town” was released, and again increased Affleck’s standing as he appeared as the leading actor, plus co-wrote and directed of the fil; at the box office it grossed well over $150 million, and received positive critiques, being nominated for more than fifteen different awards.

In 2012 Affleck directed, produced and starred in the even more successful film – “Argo” – which brought him an Oscar, American Film Institute, BAFTA, Directors Guild of America and Golden Globe Awards for producing the film, and several awards for directing as well.

In his personal life, Ben Affleck married Jennifer Garner in 2005, and they have three children together, and although have apparently been separated since 2015, they continue to reside in the same property at Pacific Palisades in California, Previously Ben was in relationships with actress Gwyneth Paltrow from 1997 to 1999, and with Jennifer Lopez from 2002 to 2004. His hobbies include card-playing, poker and blackjack.

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Ben Affleck Quick Info

Ben Affleck Trademarks

1. Square jaw
2. Often casts Titus Welliver and Victor Garber.
3. Frequently sets his films in his hometown of Boston
4. His films often focus on characters caught in situations out of their depth
5. His films often feature corrupt but well meaning law enforcement figures
6. Often works with brother Casey Affleck and friend Matt Damon.
7. Opens his films with narration or title cards
8. Frequently plays arrogant and ruthless characters

Ben Affleck Quotes

• [on being inspired by co-star Henry Cavill] I saw the first movie Man Of Steel and Henry was in it and I saw the kind of shape he was in it and it was very intimidating. I was like, “Wow, I got to look like that? That’s going to be a lot of work. I’m not sure I can be in quite that good of a shape. But Henry definitely set a high bar. But he has to be at that high bar because he’s playing an alien. I figured I have a lower bar to reach, I’m just playing a man.”
• [on Gigli (2003)] Martin Brest is one of the really great directors. Most of what I’ve learnt that is good comes from Martin – but it just didn’t work, in its essence. Also the studio wanted to change it into a love story because they thought, “That’s what people want to see because you guys are together now.” Which is one of the great miscalculations in the history of miscalculations.[2012]
• [on Enough Said (2013)] Nicole Holofcener’s “Enough Said” is sublime. The performances and the direction are honest and restrained. She expertly coaxes the characters along through the story, and she manages to accomplish that rare feat: to make the performances so realistic you think it’s a bunch of actors improvising as themselves, only to reveal a carefully constructed, interlocking story – woven expertly around profound themes. She has a graceful directorial touch. She makes space for her actors’ success and seems to know precisely when they’ve achieved it. Her modesty as a director, her insistence not to step in front of the movie, at first serves to immerse us more fully into the film – and then pulls us from the feelings we didn’t even know were there (and had been, no doubt, percolating on Ms. Holofcener’s timetable all along). Her direction is void of spectacle, distraction or maudlin sentiment. She directs with the humanist, realist sensibility of Renoir, and like the great humanist films, “Enough Said” depicts our shared experience, illuminates the individual and celebrates what it means to be human.
• Having a family makes things you have that much richer. It’s much nicer to share it with the people you love.
• [2013: Excerpt from the closing remarks of his Best Picture acceptance speech] I want to thank [The Academy] and I want to thank what they taught me, which is that you have to work harder than you think you possibly can. You can’t hold grudges. It’s hard but you can’t hold grudges. And it doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s gonna happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
• [his acceptance speech at the 2013’s SAG Awards] I can’t believe I’m standing in the place where Daniel Day-Lewis just was. Feel like I may be a better actor just for the radiation.
• [on Roger Ebert’s death] It just broke my heart that he had died. And the fact that his last review [of ‘To the Wonder’] was through the prism of this wonderful man who was at the end of his life was one of the most powerful things to ever happen to me in my career.
• [reviewing his career, 2013] I was nobody auditioning, and then I was seen as this young, emerging talent, writer, Oscar-winner, and then I was seen as this blockbuster actor, and then I was seen as this train-wreck actor, and then I was seen as this resurgent director. And now I think I’m kind of seen as just sort of somebody in Hollywood who works.
• [on life after ‘Gigli’ and ‘Jersey Girl’] Unfortunately there’s an aspect of (press coverage) that’s like one of those fights you see on YouTube where one of them falls down and then a bunch of people, who were standing around, come over to kick the person. They don’t know them, they have no involvement in the fight, but they recognize a moment that they can get a free shot in. And for some people it’s just too much to resist. And that was definitely me at that point. I was the guy. I was the designated person to loathe.
• [on “Argo” and the relationship between Hollywood and the government] There is a symbiotic relationship. People make movies about military. When you go on a tour with the military all these guys are movie buffs. Movies are a big part of our culture. The military, the movies, and our intelligence services are inventing things. For movies, it’s for art and entertainment. For intelligence services, it’s for God knows what. That’s one of the themes of this story: the power of storytelling, whether it’s political theater, relating to our children, or trying to get people out of danger. Telling stories is incredibly powerful. There’s a shot I really like where there’s this firing squad, then you go to this read through, and then there’s a firearm, a rifle, and a camera. Hopefully this is subtle, but that suggests the camera is more powerful than the gun. I think that’s been really worn out with the Youtube era.
• [on starting out as a film director] I knew how the sausage was made. Whether I could make a good sausage I didn’t know. But I knew how to get into the sausage factory and stuff intestines.
• I’d love to do [direct] something like Blade Runner (1982), but a lesson I’ve learned is to not look at movies based on budget, how much they’ll spend on effects, or where they will shoot. Story is what’s important.
• [on turning down the offer to direct Superman: Man of Steel (2013)] – The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money. With “Superman”, I think they’re going to do a great version. Christopher Nolan is brilliant and they’ve got a great director for it. … Also there are a lot of guys ahead of me on the list to do epic effects movies.
• I finally decided to quit smoking when I found out I was going to have a child. That was the thing that sort of put it over the top for me. I decided to go to a hypnotist. You sit in a chair and the hypnotist sips water and just talks to you for an hour, and explains how nicotine is poison. All of a sudden, I thought, ‘This is asinine that I’ve been doing this to myself for all these years.’ My last cigarette was on November 10th, 2005, and I feel a huge difference in my health now that I don’t smoke. I feel like I’m in better shape than I was five years ago.
• I was no longer in control of my life. I thought I wanted certain things, but I didn’t. I got lost. I felt suffocated, miserable and gross. I should never have gone down that route or got sucked in to all the publicity. I was typecast as myself. Too many people weren’t getting past what they read about me. That was damaging. I can tell from experience it’s bad for you, and bad for your career. So I took a break, went away for a while and let things calm down. (Claiming that his high-profile engagement with Jennifer Lopez damaged his career.)
• Part of the blogging culture that’s good is it’s made the traditional press much more nervous. They’ve become more accountable, because they are sensitive to what the bloggers are going to say. Most Americans don’t spend the day waiting for what the bloggers are going to say. The mainstream media sweats it, because for the first time they are actually accountable to someone who is going to write about them and their work. Which has a real strong impact on the mainstream media and how they work.
• Newspapers have gotten lazy and gotten nervous and started sourcing from blogs, and that, I think, is dangerous. Because you could pick any blog. I could start a blog tomorrow and write, ‘I heard that so-and-so is an alien’ — a lot of false stories got started and got some currency because they were placed in blogs.
• I think we don’t need to know anything about a political figure’s sex lives. I guess Matt Drudge did break [the Monica Lewinsky] story, if you think that’s a story worth breaking. I think it was a story that bogged down the wheels of government for two years. I don’t care, personally. Some people say that’s a fair reflection of a candidate’s character. I don’t. I’m not voting for your sexual predilection, I’m voting for your policy positions.
• [asked by Dee Dee Myers if he thought it was risky for his career to be identified with a particular political party] Unequivocally. Absolutely. And I think that’s why, you know, actually, people say, “Well, you see all these celebrities”. To my mind, you see very, very few. Most feel like, and probably correctly so, that to be identified with one side of the ideological fence or other risks alienating a segment of your audience that may like your movies, may want to buy your tickets, and in fact, may make it more difficult for them to suspend their disbelief when they go see you in a movie because they have you closely identified with something else. For me, part of that is already compromised, and it’s also something that’s interesting enough for me, and I don’t care quite so much about that kind of image that I’m able to do it. But I think a lot of people shy away from it, and many celebrities you see who’ve gone out there, tried to be active, have gotten pretty beaten down, you know? And so I think there is a risk, yes.
• I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It’s such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and I’ve been able to stay a float. I think the next logical step in my career would be to start my own filmmaking empire like [Harvey Weinstein] and [Bob Weinstein] did so many years ago. I think if only the unions weren’t so strict in Boston, I’d set up shop there and make films of a certain quality you don’t see represented these days. I’m full of ideas and dreams.
• I just feel like sometimes I’m a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It’s not easy being me.
• When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I’m doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it’s so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
• I kinda see my current position like this: “Here’s your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before Chuck Woolery rings the bell”.
• I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It’s such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don’t want to be a sex symbol.
• I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn’t fully appreciate. But I’m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
• I’m always described as “cocksure” or “with a swagger”, and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
• I’m not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I’ve been able to continue one with [Gwyneth Paltrow] that’s really valuable.
• [about the New York Yankees’ principal owner] You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.
• I’ve finally learnt how to say, “No comment”. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
• [on his career path and choice of movies] I have definitely noticed that I care less about certain things. Other actors are like, “You can’t do that”, or “You can’t do this. This will position you in the wrong way.” That’s not my thing. And obviously so, because you can see I don’t craft or cultivate my career.
• Sure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
• God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you’ll know I’ve lost all my money.
• It’s like Christmas: it’s all advertising, and the first rule of selling somebody something is to make them seem inadequate. Make them feel like they need it. Like fabric softener. Nobody really needs fabric softener and yet, all of a sudden, you feel like a jackass if you don’t have fabric softener, so people buy it. And that’s how Christmas has become, because 50% of all retail sales happen in December. You are bombarded with this stuff – money will make you happy, and keeping up with the Joneses. Obviously that stuff doesn’t make you happy, otherwise there wouldn’t be all these unhappy rich people. They’d all be happy in their jacuzzis and OK, some of them are.
• [on his struggles as an actor before becoming successful] I lived all over the place. I lived in Hollywood, then I moved. [Matt Damon] and I got money from School Ties (1992), and we blew it all in a couple of months. We made $35,000 or $40,000 each and thought we were rich. And we were shocked later on to find out how much we owed in taxes. We were appalled: $15,000! What? But we rented this house on the beach in Venice and 800 people came and stayed with us and got drunk. Then we ran out of money and had to get an apartment. It was like everything was exciting. So we lived in Glendale and Eagle Rock and we lived in Hollywood, West Hollywood, Venice, by the Hollywood Bowl, all over the place. We’d get thrown out of some places or we’d have to upgrade or downgrade depending on who had money.
• When I got to L.A., my family had me go to dinner with this guy who had been acting here for 20 years. He gave me this big lecture and said, “You know how much money I made in 20 years of acting? Eight thousand dollars. And I’m a carpenter.” He was just really unhappy and it was depressing. Then he got really stoned and I went home and felt sick. I think it was just morbid fear. I was 18. That fear stays with you so intensely and you’re constantly just getting turned down for what you think of as the most vapid, stupid kind of paycheck, Baywatch (1989) things, and you think, “Jesus, if I’m not good enough for this, then I’m not going to make it”. This town is too hard, and people were always telling me, “You’re too big, you’re too tall, you can only play bullies and you will never be a leading man.
• [when asked why he thought George W. Bush, after hearing that New York was under attack on Sept 11, remained in a Florida classroom, doing nothing, for several minutes] It’s obviously very disturbing footage. On the one hand, you see a reaction on a man’s face that he is clearly pained and shocked. I probably did the same thing sitting on my chair. I was completely freaked out and a little devastated. On the other hand, one does hope that in one’s leaders, that they have the instinct to spring into action, to take some action or make the appearance of taking some action. And I was disappointed to see that he didn’t do that, although I don’t entirely hold it against him because, frankly, I was as shocked and devastated as he was. Although I think flying around in Air Force One for 11 hours before coming back and landing in the White House was probably less forgivable.
• [told by David Gergen that many were surprised by how well he “elucidated”] Well, David, I think I benefit from the same thing that helped George W. Bush in the [2000] debates, which is tremendously low expectations.
• [to Dee Dee Myers, when asked how people react to his campaigning for candidates he supports] Well, I mean, to be perfectly honest, probably the most effective things that celebrities do for political candidates is raise money. You know, that’s something that you can do. And unlike, say, fund-raisers sponsored by — you know, engineered by insurance companies or oil companies, at least what you can say for celebrities is they’re not expecting, you know, deregulation of their industry in return. So that’s one of things that I’m, I’ve been able to do and to try to help them do it. Other than that, you know, I’ve lived this sort of strange, sometimes unpleasant, but mostly very lucky life that’s involved lately a lot of media attention. And one of the things that feels good to me to do is to try to steer that in a direction of something more significant and at least be — try to create some political dialogue. And that’s satisfying. Some people react to me kindly, and others don’t. That’s sort of the nature of politics. [Myers follows up: “Do you think it’s kind of a risk for your career as movie star to get in bed with one party?”] Unequivocally. Absolutely. And I think that’s why, you know, actually, people say, Well, you see all these celebrities. To my mind, you see very, very few. Most feel like, and probably correctly so, that to be identified with one side of the ideological fence or other risks alienating a segment of your audience that may like your movies, may want to buy your tickets, and in fact, may make it more difficult for them to suspend their disbelief when they go see you in a movie because they have you closely identified with something else. For me, part of that is already compromised, and it’s also something that’s interesting enough for me, and I don’t care quite so much about that kind of image that I’m able to do it. But I think a lot of people shy away from it, and many celebrities you see who’ve gone out there, tried to be active, have gotten pretty beaten down, you know? And so I think there is a risk, yes. [July 27, 2004, quoted in the MSNBC Transcripts]
• [when asked by Chris Matthews what he thought about Whoopi Goldberg’s remarks at a John Kerry fund raiser that resulted in her being fired as a spokesman for SlimFast] I wasn’t there. I went to the Los Angeles fund raiser. I wasn’t in the one in New York. I think when you have somebody — you know, if you did a rock concert that was a benefit and The Who played their music or The Rolling Stones, you’d expect to get, you know, “Satisfaction” or “My Generation.” When you hire Whoopi Goldberg, you’re going to get her brand of humor. And I think there is a fine line, and you have to be a little bit mindful. And I, for one, am not going to do any scatological jokes or puns about the president’s last name on your show, mostly for that reason. But I also think I expect a different code of behavior maybe from comedians who have made a career with a certain kind of comedy than I do from, oh, say, the Vice President of the United States [referring to Vice President [Dick Cheney, who told Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy to “Go fuck yourself” on the floor of the Senate], who used this vulgar language, you know, to a senator and was sort of unapologetic about it. So I think the Republicans hitting her [Whoopi] too hard for that is a little bit hypocritical.
• [answering a Chris Matthews question about why Hollywood actors sometimes presume to be sophisticated about politics] Everyone’s entitled to express their political beliefs. I don’t presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are. But you have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world. You have Rush Limbaugh, was a radio disc jockey. Bill O’Reilly came from Inside Edition (1988). Michael Moore’s a filmmaker. Al Franken was on Saturday Night Live (1975). The line is increasingly blurred between news and entertainment. Secondarily, the media’s also shoving celebrities down our throats all the time. As a person, I’m much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they’re dating or what clothes they’re wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.
• [on tabloid coverage of his life] It feels like being in a soap opera that you were unwittingly cast in and you have no choice about it. I get to watch my life like everyone else and think. “I can’t believe they did that”. And, for whatever reason, you become less special for movie audiences. It cheapens the brand if you want to look at it in a really crass sense. But I figure it has to go away at some point. Eventually someone will come along and have a sex tape or someone will play grab-ass with some kids and I’ll be off page one.
• I feel like fame is wasted on me.
• [on the celebrity women the tabloids falsely link him to] Sometimes it’s Britney Spears, and sometimes it’s Carrie Fisher. I can’t tell if I have a Lolita complex or an Oedipus complex.

Ben Affleck Important Facts

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• He is distantly related to sixteen U.S. presidents including Barack Obama. He is also distantly related to the late Princess Diana.
• Tenth cousin once removed of Matt Damon.They are both descendants of William Knowlton Jr., a bricklayer who came to the United States from England in the 1630s.
• Avid poker player.
• Brother-in-law of Summer Phoenix.
• Father (with Jennifer Garner) of Violet Affleck, Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck and Samuel Garner Affleck.
• He appeared in four films with Joey Lauren Adams: Dazed and Confused (1993), Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997) and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001). The first of these, which was directed by Richard Linklater, was the only one of the four not directed by Kevin Smith.
• He has appeared in six films directed by Kevin Smith: Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Jersey Girl (2004) and Clerks II (2006).
• He is the first actor to be cast as Bruce Wayne/Batman by two different directors.
• With his casting in Suicide Squad (2016), he is the first actor to play Bruce Wayne/Batman in two different films released in the same year.
• He and to-be-ex wife Jennifer Garner announced their divorce on June 30, 2015, which is exactly 10 years and one day after their wedding occurred.
• He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Argo (2012). He also directed the latter.
• Received a lifetime ban from playing blackjack at the Las Vegas’ Hard Rock Casino due to his ‘counting cards’ skills.
• Was only five-foot one when entering high school and describes himself as having been ”An awkward theater geek”.
• Of the first three actors to play Jack Ryan, he was Tom Clancy’s favourite.
• In his film Jersey Girl, Affleck’s refers to his transportation as “the Batmobile.” Ironically, he was cast as Batman for Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice.
• With his casting in the new Batman vs. Superman movie, Affleck has portrayed 3 superheroes (Daredevil, Hollywoodland, and Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice).
• He is one year and five months older than Christian Bale, making him the second actor to play Bruce Wayne/Batman older than his predecessor, the first being Robert Lowery.
• As of 2014, he has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Field of Dreams (1989), Good Will Hunting (1997), Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Argo (2012), with the two latter winning in the category.
• Starred alongside Alec Baldwin in ”Pearl Harbor (2001)” and once played him in a skit on ”Saturday Night Live”. In addition to both playing the part of Tom Clancy’s character Jack Ryan, both men share the distinction of playing iconic golden age comic book characters who used fear and intimidation: Baldwin played the title role in ”The Shadow (1994)” and Affleck plays Bruce Wayne/Batman.
• He has the distinction of being the only actor to wear both a Batman suit and Superman suit in two different films.
• Began an intense two-hour a day workout regime the day after he was cast as Batman.
• Became a father for the 3rd time at age 39 when his wife Jennifer Garner gave birth to their son Samuel Garner Affleck on February 27, 2012.
• Became a father for the 2nd time at age 36 when his wife Jennifer Garner gave birth to their daughter Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck on January 6, 2009.
• Became a father for the 1st time at age 33 when his wife Jennifer Garner gave birth to their daughter Violet Anne Affleck on December 1, 2005.
• He is the third Academy-award winner to play the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman after George Clooney and Christian Bale. He and Clooney are both two-time Oscar winners, and won their second Oscar together as producers of Argo (2012). He is the first to have won before playing Batman.
• He has played two comic book characters whose most famous story lines were written by Frank Miller: Batman and Daredevil.
• He is the tallest actor to play Bruce Wayne/Batman and is in fact an inch and half taller than the version seen in the comics who stands at six-feet two inches tall.
• At forty years old, he is the oldest actor to be cast in the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman.
• Since the Directors Guild started awarding its DGA award for Best Director in 1948, Affleck is only the third director to ever win this award while also failing to even be nominated for an Oscar as Best Director. The two other directors likewise snubbed by Academy voters were Ron Howard for Apollo 13 (1995) and Steven Spielberg for The Color Purple (1985).
• The first director ever to win both the Golden Globe and the Directors Guild awards for Best Director after failing to earn an Oscar nomination for the same work, for Argo (2012).
• When he and best friend Matt Damon were struggling actors, they both shared a Boston bank account.
• At age 25, he was the youngest person ever to win an Oscar for ‘Best Original Screenplay’. He went 15 years without another nomination until 2013, and won ‘Best Picture’ for Argo (2012).
• Ben and Jennifer Garner are expecting their third child [August 22, 2011].
• Has directed 3 actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Amy Ryan, Jeremy Renner, and Alan Arkin.
• Lives in Pacific Palisades, California.
• As a teenager, he lived in México where he learned to speak Spanish.
• Claims that his hero is Harrison Ford.
• Majored in Middle Eastern affairs in college.
• He has an entry in Jean Tulard’s “Dictionnaire du Cinéma/Les Acteurs”, published in Paris in 2007 (pgs. 15/16).
• Was considered for the role of Billy Loomis in Scream (1996).
• (November 11, 2008) Attended the star-studded opening of Dubai’s lavish Atlantis Palms resort. Guests were welcomed in style with a display of one million fireworks, said to be visible from space.
• Since late 2007 he has made four separate trips to the Democratic Republic of Congo to bring attention to the plight of that country. [November 2008]
• Dec. 2007 – Ranked 50 in EW’s The 50 Smartest People In Hollywood.
• 2002: Voted Most Eligible Bachelor by People Magazine.
• Was originally set to play “Don Haskins” in Glory Road (2006), but pulled out of the project due to scheduling conflicts.
• He and his wife, Jennifer Garner, both had movies open on January 26 2007: his was Smokin’ Aces (2006) and hers was Catch and Release (2006).
• Turned down the part of Bobby Mercer in Four Brothers (2005), as he found the script to be “ultra-violent”. The part eventually went to Mark Wahlberg.
• Has a fear of flying.
• His father was at one time a janitor at Harvard University, the inspiration for Will Hunting’s job at MIT in Good Will Hunting (1997).
• Winner of the 2006 Venice Film Festival’s Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his role in “Hollywoodland”.
• Besides being known as the title character in the Daredevil franchise, is also known as Superman in the George Reeves bio-pic “Hollywoodland”.
• Is an avid fan of Robert Englund.
• Was to have cameos in two Kevin Smith produced movies but had to back out due to scheduling conflicts. The two movies were Vulgar (2000) and Big Helium Dog (1999).
• At one point after Good Will Hunting (1997) was released, Affleck was writing a script with Matt Damon and his brother Casey Affleck. The plot concerned teenagers in a half way house. It is not clear if this script will ever be completed.
• Tom Clancy wrote a script for a new Jack Ryan film entitled “Red Rabbit”, with him in mind. “Red Rabbit” is set in the early 1980s, (when Clancy’s novel version of Ryan was about Affleck’s age) and chronicles a Soviet plot to kill Pope John Paul II only a few years into his reign.
• Quit smoking when Violet was born.
• Appeared with wife Jennifer Garner in two movies Daredevil (2003) and Pearl Harbor (2001). It would have been three, but Affleck’s small scene in Elektra (2005), was cut from the final film.
• Is a fan of the Red Sox baseball team
• 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.
• Prior to achieving leading man status, he was often cast as a bully.
• As of 2005, has a total of seven Razzie Nominations (including three for Worst Actor) and two “wins”.
• 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).
• Is a staunch Democrat and has supported Senator John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.
• When he was dating Jennifer Lopez, hated the paparazzi referring to them as “Bennifer.”
• 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).
• Appeared in a prop photo used in the movie Mermaids (1990).
• Is a first-time uncle to younger brother Casey’s son, Indiana August, who was born on May 31, 2004 in Amsterdam, to Casey and his fiancé, actress Summer Phoenix.
• 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.
• He learned to speak Arabic.
• With the exception of Clerks (1994), he has appeared in all of Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse films.
• Jennifer Lopez wrote the song “Dear Ben” about him and how much she loved him.
• Speaks Spanish and French.
• In the fall of 2003, he volunteered to spend several days with children with disabilities.
• Has a Boston Celtics logo painted on the basketball court at his house.
• Is getting paid $1.5 million dollars for doing commercials for L’Oreal Shampoo. (2003)
• Ranked #41 in Premiere’s 2003 annual Power 100 List.
• Growing up, the Marvel Comic book character Daredevil was his hero. He got to play the character in the 2003 movie.
• 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.
• Named People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” (2002)
• Voluntarily entered Promises Rehabilitation Center in Malibu, California for alcohol abuse. [July 2001]
• His ancestry is mostly English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), and distant/remote Swiss-German, Swedish, French, and Welsh. His maternal great-grandfather, Joseph Raymond Boldt, was born in Rhode Island, to German immigrants, and his maternal great-grandmother, Anne Rita Lenihan, was Irish, born in County Down.
• Confirms engagement to Jennifer Lopez, after giving her a reported $3.5 million ring. (Nov. 2002)
• 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, it was so accurate Freeman told him, “You ever do that again, I’ll kill you”.
• Ranked #77 in Premiere’s 2002 annual Power 100 List.
• Charlie Sheen drove him to Promises Rehabilitation Center in August, 2001
• Was an extra with friend Matt Damon in Field of Dreams (1989).
• Auditioned for Corey Haim’s part in License to Drive (1988).
• Chosen as one of People Magazine’s Most Beautiful People in the World [1999]
• Chosen as one of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People in the World [2000]
• Owns 5 motorcycles.
• Has his teeth capped.
• He and Matt Damon sold their Good Will Hunting (1997) script for $600,000.
• Dropped out of Occidental College after 1 year, where he had studied Middle Eastern studies.
• Dropped out of the University of Vermont after 1 semester.
• Graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School in 1990.
• 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.
• 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.
• Owns vintage Ms. Pac-Man and Millipede video-arcade games.
• Friend of and frequent collaborator with actor Matt Damon.
• Older brother of actor Casey Affleck.
• Fined $135 for driving in Massachusetts with a suspended license. [1999]

Ben Affleck Filmography

Ben Affleck Awards