From New England to Hollywood. Matt Damon’s work as an actor, author and producer has cemented him as one of many leisure trade’s largest stars.
The Stillwater star was born in October 1970 to oldsters Nancy Carlsson-Paige and Kent Damon. Throughout his childhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with older brother Kyle Damon, Matt met his greatest buddy and future costar, Ben Affleck, once they have been 10 and eight years outdated, respectively.
After Matt booked his first-ever movie position in 1988’s Mystic Pizza, he and Affleck went on to look in a number of tasks collectively — together with Area of Desires and Faculty Ties — earlier than cowriting the movie that will launch them into stardom: 1997’s Good Will Searching.
“I’ve identified him for 35 years, and we grew up collectively,” Matt informed Leisure Tonight in July 2016. “We have been each in love with the identical factor — performing and filmmaking. I feel we consumed one another’s obsession throughout actually formative, vital years and that bonded us for all times.”
The well-known duo took dwelling the 1998 Oscar for Finest Authentic Screenplay for his or her work on the movie, which additionally starred Robin Williams and Minnie Driver, the latter of whom Matt started relationship in 1997. Their 1998 break up sparked a media frenzy, which Driver in comparison with a “unusual, surreal dream” in a Might 2022 interview with Leisure Tonight.
The actress continued: “My household liked Matt. … It’s so tough, as a result of it’s not deliberate, he couldn’t have helped how well-known he grew to become and the way his life was being picked over, in the identical manner that mine was.”
The Martian actor later dated Winona Ryder for 2 years earlier than their 2000 break up. Quickly after, Matt met his future spouse, Luciana Barroso, at a Miami bar in 2003.
“Matt’s story is that he noticed me throughout the room and there was a lightweight on me,” the previous bartender informed Vogue Australia in Might 2018. “And I’m like, ‘Yeah, it was a nightclub — there have been lights in every single place!’”
The couple tied the knot two years later and have become the mother and father of three women, welcoming daughters Isabella, Gia and Stella in 2006, 2008 and 2012, respectively. Upon their marriage, Matt additionally grew to become stepfather to Barroso’s daughter Alexia, whom she welcomed with ex-husband Arbello Barroso in 1999.
Matt and his spouse later renewed their vows in a surprising seashore ceremony on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia in April 2013.
His household life apart, the Suburbicon actor has starred in lots of iconic movie franchises over time, together with the Ocean’s and Jason Bourne sequence. He’s even made a number of Marvel film cameos in movies equivalent to Thor: Ragnarok, Deadpool 2 and Thor: Love and Thunder.
Along with starring in a number of extra movies with Affleck — together with Chasing Amy, Dogma, The Final Duel and Air — Matt earned a complete of 5 Oscars nominations all through his profession. He’s scored Finest Actor nominations for Good Will Searching and The Martian, in addition to a Finest Supporting Actor nod for Invictus. In 2017, he was acknowledged as a producer with a Finest Image nomination for Manchester by the Sea.
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