Look no further than best friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, who regularly discuss their friendship and even made an appearance together during a Dunkin' commercial during the Super Bowl. In the ad, Damon tells Affleck he'd "do anything" for him.
Actor Matt Damon's career took off after starring in and co-writing Good Will Hunting, which earned him the 1997 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, along with his friend and fellow co-writer Ben Affleck.
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.
It's been discovered that notoriously close buddies Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are related by blood. Genealogists have dug up an ancestral history that Damon and Affleck probably aren't aware of themselves. In addition to both descending from an Ipswich, Massachusetts, bricklayer named William Knowlton Jr.
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Not only are Ben Affleck and Matt Damon distant cousins, but they are related to Barack Obama and Princess Diana. Both actors descent from a bricklayer named William Knowlton Jr., who came from England in the 1630's, settling in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
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 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 ...
Matt Damon never graduated Harvard. He dropped out to pursue his acting career as he was getting roles while at school. He made his own big break with best friend Ben Affleck when they co-wrote Good Will Hunting together and Damon took the title role.
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.
Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon are two actors who are often confused for each other due to their similar looks, but their lives have taken very different paths. Damon comes from a wealthy family of three siblings, and at 16, he was a successful Harvard student.
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.)
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.
1980s: Affleck and Damon met as kids after their moms introduced them. According to a Parade interview from 2007, Affleck first met Damon in the early 1980s when they were 8 and 10, respectively.
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.
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.
