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Ben Affleck's story is, without doubt, one of the great rags-to-riches tales in recent cinema history. Along with his childhood buddy, Matt Damon, he was a struggling actor, in the final stages of being consigned to Hollywood's dustpile. But together they fought back. Bucking the system, they wrote their own screenplay, attracted their own finance, and produced and starred in their own movie.
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Ben Affleck is one-half of 1997's "out of nowhere" story of the year. He and boyhood buddy Matt Damon won unanimous raves for their work in their self-scripted smash, Good Will Hunting.
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Tall and handsome in a meat-eating sort of way, "Ben Affleck" has the looks of a matinee idol and the resume of an actor who honed his craft as an indie film slacker before flexing his muscles as a Hollywood star. A staple of "Kevin Smith" films and such seminal indies as "Dazed and Confused", Affleck became a star and entered the annals of Hollywood legend when he and best friend "Matt Damon" wrote and starred in "Good Will Hunting", winning a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for their work.
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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have been rekindling their BFF flames. The boys recently vacationed with their families in Hawaii. Last night they took the party to Vegas where they played poker in the Ante Up For Africa tournament at the Rio hotel.
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Ben Affleck seemed like a promising young actor when he starred in "Chasing Amy" a decade ago. A year later, he and Matt Damon won an Oscar for their screenplay for "Good Will Hunting."
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Ben ... has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975. Ben wanted to be an actor ever since he could remember and his first acting experience was for a Burger King commercial, when he was *very* young. At 8 years old Ben was given his first steady acting job on the PBS mini-series "The Voyage of the Mimi" (1984). It was also at that age when Ben met his lifelong friend and fellow actor, Matt Damon. They played little league together and took drama classes together. Ben's teen years consisted of mainly TV movies and small television appearances including Hands of a Stranger (1987) (TV) and "The Second Voyage of the Mimi" (1988).
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