Affleck won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997), which he co-wrote with Matt Damon, and has appeared in lead roles in such popular hits 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 has been actively involved in politics and charitable causes. Affleck was born in Berkeley, California. Affleck’s mother graduated from Harvard University and was a freedom rider in the 1960s; she teaches in Cambridge Public Schools. At age eight, Affleck met 10-year-old Matt Damon, who lived two blocks away (Damon is Affleck’s tenth cousin, once removed, through a common New England ancestor). Throughout the 1990s, he had roles in Lifestories: Families in Crisis, as a steroid-abusing athlete, as well as in several films, including 1992′s School Ties (with Damon), the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie (uncredited), 1993′s Dazed and Confused, 1995′s Mallrats, and 1997′s Chasing Amy.
Ben And Jen Are Proud Americans Such a patriotic family!Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner took the kiddies out to watch the Fourth of July parade in their home neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, Calif. on Monday.The cutie fam had brunch at Shutters at the Beach in Santa Monica then headed over to the parade where they found the perfect seats to watch [...] [link]