According to a Parade interview from 2007, Affleck first met Damon in the early 1980s when they were 8 and 10, respectively. The two lived two blocks away from each other in Cambridge, Massachusetts, loved baseball and acting, and went on to attend Cambridge Rindge and Latin high school.
Matt Damon, born 1970, and Ben Affleck, born 1972, grew up down the street from each other in Cambridge, Affleck told Parade magazine in 2007. The pair met when they were 10 and 8 years old, respectively, and they became fast friends after they discovered they shared a mutual love for baseball and movies.
Damon was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and attended the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where he took drama classes. At age 18 he landed a small part in Mystic Pizza (1988) and also enrolled in Harvard University as an English major.
Affleck and Damon grew up together in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and became friends when Damon was 10 years old and Affleck was 8. Living two blocks apart from each other, the boys attended school together and bonded over their mutual love of baseball and acting.
But, while O'Brien graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, Damon was quick to point out that, although he did attend classes at Harvard (and even snuck into his year's graduation ceremony), he never finished his degree.
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After being inseparable through grammar and high school, Damon enrolled in Harvard University, though he and Affleck remained close. Two years later, Affleck attended the University of Vermont. Affleck explained that he chose the school because he wanted to be with his high school girlfriend.
Damon and Affleck grew up in Cambridge and attended Rindge & Latin School, where they took drama classes together. After high school, Damon went to Harvard, while Affleck moved to Los Angeles to attend Occidental College.
Affleck is the co-founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative, a grantmaking and advocacy-based nonprofit organization. He is a supporter of the Democratic Party. Affleck and Damon are co-owners of the production company Artists Equity and were also co-owners of Pearl Street Films.
He has English, Irish, Scottish, German, Swedish, Swiss, Northern Irish (Scots-Irish), Welsh and French ancestry. The surname "Affleck" is of Scottish origin, and his middle name, "Géza", was the name of a family friend.
Meeting. The pair met in their native Cambridge when Affleck was 8 and Damon age 10. By the late 1980s, the two decided on pursuing a career in cinema and opened a shared bank account in order to save money for auditions, depositing money either of them earned from early roles into the account.
Affleck and Damon are still the best of friends today — so it only makes sense that Damon was the first person the media turned to when rumors buzzed in 2021 of a rekindled romance between Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. (The pair got together in 2002 before calling off their engagement in 2004.)
When he was 13, Affleck was cast in a television show that spent a year filming in Mexico. He learned the basics over time, then he continued practicing as an adult. In an interview with Kelly Clarkson, Affleck explained that he was inspired to study harder when his daughter Violet began learning Spanish.
"My wife and I made 'Pearl Harbor' and 'Daredevil,'" he told Playboy. "With our track record, I don't know if anyone's looking for a three-quel." Though they ultimately went their separate ways, Affleck and Garner have maintained a friendship and amicable co-parenting relationship.
His fortune turned thanks in part to good advice from a Harvard playwriting professor, who read a movie script that Damon had turned in as part of an assignment and said: “Don't give up on this.” Damon left Harvard in spring of 1993 — headed for Hollywood and a role in “Geronimo: An American Legend,” with that script ...
“They both want their moms to fly in and spend time together, but Christine [Affleck] has never really gelled with Lupe [Lopez], so they've always been tactfully kept apart,” says the source, explaining that Ben's mom is “wary” of his second marriage.
The Martian star Matt Damon dropped out of Harvard with only 12 credits away from graduating. Although it might feel like a shame to be so close to the finish line, we know now it was also worth it. As it turns out, Damon dropped out in 1997 to begin his acting career and star in Geronimo: An American Legend.
Matt Damon attended Harvard from 1988 through 1992, but left before graduating. Hs biography says that he was 12 credits short of a degree. His close friend Ben Affleck attended both the University of Vermont and Occidental College but did not graduate from either.
