Mini Bio. Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are American actors, screenwriters, and producers from Cambridge, Massachusetts who have frequently collaborated throughout their careers.
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.
Wahlberg is from the Southie Boston neighborhood of Dorchester, while Damon and Affleck are from Cambridge in the north. “I'm trying to work my way into [their] good graces, but very, very funny,” Wahlberg said, praising his fellow Bay Staters.
Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 8, 1970, the second son of Kent Telfer Damon (1942–2017), a stockbroker, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige (b. 1946), an early childhood education professor at Lesley University.
But Damon's time at Harvard certainly didn't go to waste as he wrote a rough draft for Good Will Hunting during one of his playwriting classes. The Hollywood heavyweight, who boasts an IQ of 160, famously completed the project with his longtime friend Ben Affleck.
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.)
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.
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.
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 ...
Photos: Boston's Ben Affleck and Wife Jennifer Lopez are Selling the Estate Where They Married. What an extraordinary home Ben Affleck owns, and I'm sure this was quite the decision for him to decide to sell it again.
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.
Elsa Salvatore is a female vampire and one of the female protagonists of The Vampire Diaries. She was a major antagonist in Season One and Season Four. She is the younger twin sister of Damon Salvatore and the elder sister to Stefan Salvatore.
Actor Mark Wahlberg appeared on the Stephen Colbert Show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, to address some pressing questions regarding his absence from the Dunkin' commercials. With two of his closest friends, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, alongside Tom Brady, it seemed like a full house of Boston boys.
Family background. Affleck was born in Berkeley, California and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mother, Christine Anne "Chris" Affleck (née Boldt), was a school district employee and teacher.
Many others assumed Affleck learned Spanish from his wife, Jennifer Lopez, but as it turns out, he began speaking it as a child. 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.
Fewer words have the broad a in Boston English than in the London accents, and fewer and fewer Boston speakers maintain the broad a system as time goes on, with its transition into a decline first occurring in speakers born from about 1930 to 1950 (and first documented as a decline in 1977).
As mentioned earlier, Elon Musk's IQ score is believed to be between 155 and 160. Above-average IQ scores within this range are only reserved for the "Highly Gifted" IQ classification.
Taylor Alison Swift, an American singer-songwriter, is reputed to possess an IQ of 160 according to certain reputable sources. Notably, she holds a record in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest singer ever to sign a deal at the age of 11.
