Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt (born August 15, 1972), better known as Ben Affleck, is an American actor, film director, writer, and producer. He was known for her appearance in Kevin Smith films like Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997) and Dogma (1999). Affleck won an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for the screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997), which he co-wrote with Matt Damon, and has appeared in major roles in popular hits such as Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), Changing Lanes (2002), The Sum of All Fears (2002), Daredevil (2003), Hollywoodland (2007) and State of Play (2009).
Affleck is a critically acclaimed filmmaker. He directed Gone Baby Gone (2007) and The Town (2010), playing the lead in the second. He has worked with his brother, actor Casey Affleck, on several projects, including Good Will Hunting and Gone Baby Gone.
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Affleck Jennifer Garner has been married since June 2005. They have two daughters, Violet and Seraphina, and a son, Samuel. Previously, he dated Gwyneth Paltrow in 1998, and his relationship with actress / singer Jennifer Lopez attracted the attention of world media, in which Affleck and Lopez, dubbed "Bennifer", ended in 2004.
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Affleck has been actively involved in politics and charity. He and Matt Damon also founded the production company LivePlanet.
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Affleck was born in Berkeley, California. His mother, Anne Christine "Chris" (née Boldt), is a school district employee and teacher, and his father, Timothy Byers Affleck, has been, at various times, drug counselor, social worker, janitor, auto mechanic, bartender, writer, director , and the actor with the Theater Company of Boston. Mrs. Affleck graduated from Harvard University and was a freedom rider in 1960, he taught at Cambridge Public Schools. His younger brother is actor Casey Affleck. Affleck has a descent English, Irish, Scottish, and German (the family name "Affleck" is Scottish). He was raised in a family mostly Episcopal. His family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, when he was very young and his parents divorced in 1984. At the age of eight, Affleck met Matt Damon 10 years old, who lives two blocks (Damon Affleck is a tenth cousin, once removed, through New England a common ancestor). The two later attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School together, although they are in different classes. Affleck attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, and University of Vermont, and majored in Middle Eastern affairs.
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Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Affleck
