As an undergraduate, he said, he took every class he could with the late, longtime American Repertory Theater (ART) resident director David Wheeler '47, and was an understudy for several productions at the ART. As a final assignment for Anthony Kubiak's playwriting class, Damon was asked to write a one-act play.
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 ...
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.
Damon attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and he performed in a number of theater productions during his time there. He attended Harvard University as an English major.
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.
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.
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.)
Portman graduated from Harvard in 2003 and her sole screen appearance that year was in the brief part of a young mother in the war film Cold Mountain. Portman began 2004 by featuring in the romantic comedy Garden State, which was written and directed by its star Zach Braff.
Tommy Lee is still respected as one of the alumnus and famous people who went to Harvard University – he started off with humble beginnings and made it big in Hollywood as well as excelled in his academic endeavors.
In order to lose the required amount of weight for the present-day scenes, Matt Damon went on a strict regimen of food deprivation and physical training. This caused his health to become so frail that he was put on medical supervision for several months after the shoot.
Actor Matt Damon joined CNN's Chris Wallace of "Who's Talking to Chris Wallace" to discuss how he chooses the projects he does and how one movie he turned down in 2009 may have cost him $250 million.
That year, Keys accepted a scholarship to study at Columbia University in Manhattan. She graduated from high school early as valedictorian, at the age of 16, and began attending Columbia University at that age while working on her music.
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.
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.
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.
John Adams, Matt Aucoin, Leonard Bernstein, Elliott Carter, Justin Hurwitz, Tom Lehrer, Yo-Yo Ma, Bonnie Raitt, Pete Seeger, and Virgil Thomson—all graduates of Harvard who have gone on to influence the world of music.
Denzel Washington was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011, in addition to delivering the institutions's commencement speech.
“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.
