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.
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.
He made his big introduction into feature films in 1993 when he was cast in Dazed and Confused (1993). After that, he did mostly independent films like Kevin Smith's Mallrats (1995) and Chasing Amy (1997) which were great for Ben's career, receiving renowned appreciation for his works at the Sundance film festival.
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.
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After they graduated high school, they remained close friends while Damon attended Harvard University, and then Affleck went to the University of Vermont two years later.
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.
You don't need to worry about Ben, let me just tell you. He is good. He is happy. He is here, he is nominated,” she said, referring to his film, Air, being nominated for two Golden Globe awards this year.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have been close since they were kids. Here's a timeline of their decade-spanning friendship. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck met as kids back in the 1980s, and they've been friends ever since.
In 1990, Garner enrolled at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where she changed her major from chemistry to theater and was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority.
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 ...
He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT) and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973. He did not stay at Harvard long enough to choose a concentration, but took mathematics (including Math 55) and graduate level computer science courses.
After graduating, Damon studied English at Harvard University, where he wrote a 40-page script for a playwriting class that served as an early draft for what later became Good Will Hunting. He dropped out of Harvard 12 credits shy of graduation to pursue his acting career.
Ben Affleck is committed to maintaining his sobriety amid troubles in his marriage to Jennifer Lopez, a source exclusively tells In Touch. “He's managed to stay fully sober,” the insider reveals, noting that “it came off as pretty insensitive” when Jennifer, 54, launched an alcohol line, Delola, in April 2023.
And the dad of three said it didn't take long to add on pounds. “Listen, it's a lot easier to put on weight as you get older,” he said, though he's now back down to 210 lbs. Affleck also said it was “interesting” to play a character who “dealt with an addiction to alcohol, and that's something that I have dealt with.”
Who is the tallest actor? Brad Garrett. If you ever saw Everybody Loves Raymond then you must be aware of the fact that more than half of the jokes around Robert Barone (Garrett' character) were related to his impressive and distinctive height.
A proud Latina of her Spanish roots the actress is fluent in Spanish and wants to educate her kids in both languages, English and Spanish. (Note from the editor: This interview was done just before Lopez announced her departure from "American Idol.")
JLo further revealed that her legal name is Mrs. Affleck because the couple are “joined together”. Also Read: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez give MET Gala a miss, go house-hunting in matching outfits instead.
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. He was raised in a mostly Episcopalian family.
Affleck's previous educational experience was attending both Occidental College in Los Angeles and the University of Vermont, though he did not graduate from either school.
Damon entered Harvard in 1988, where he appeared in student theater plays, such as Burn This and A... My Name is Alice. Later, he made his film debut at the age of 18, with a single line of dialogue in the romantic comedy Mystic Pizza.
