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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have been buddies since before adolescence, growing up in the same Cambridge neighborhood. They shared an interest in baseball, movies, and girls, and both worked as actors at an early age. Affleck did commercials for Burger King at 8, and he was a regular on a PBS series, The Voyage of the Mimi. At 9 he appeared in his first film, Dark End of the Street, a low-budget no-star drama filmed in Boston and Cambridge. At 14 he was in an after-school special with Madeline Kahn. He auditioned for a small role in Mystic Pizza, but Damon got the part.
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Ben Affleck’s love life has been under a microscope for a decade. First there was the romance with his Shakespeare in Love costar Gwyneth Paltrow (immediately following her high-profile breakup with Brad Pitt). Then in 2002, he started dating Jennifer Lopez, completely redefining the celebrity couple and drawing a level of media obsession the world had never seen. Following the critical mauling of their joint movie project Gigli, their engagement fell apart. After short relationship with a Boston woman (who was later found to be convicted shoplifter), Affleck began dating his Daredevil costar Jennifer Garner. The two married in June 2005 and had a daughter, Violet, in December 2005.
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Ben Affleck has some big shoes to fill. Jack Ryan, Affleck's character in The Sum of All Fears, is already a big-screen veteran. Alec Baldwin played Ryan in The Hunt for Red October, and Harrison Ford stole the role in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger.
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Synopsis: Ben (Ben Affleck) has two days to get from New York to Savannah, Georgia for his wedding to Bridget Cahill (Maura Tierney). Everything is running smoothly until his plane skids off the runway. Ben inadvertently saves the life of his seatmate, Sarah (Sandra Bullock), who becomes his companion forRead More
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Ben Affleck and his childhood friend Matt Damon wrote and starred in the 1998 film Good Will Hunting. The resulting Oscar for best original screenplay catapulted both to stardom. Affleck has appeared in independent films such as Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy (1997) and Dogma (1999), but has ... shown a taste for playing heroes in big-budget action movies such as Armageddon (1998, with Bruce Willis), Pearl Harbor (2001, with Josh Hartnett) and Daredevil (2003, with his future wife Jennifer Garner). In 2002 Affleck starred in The Sum of All Fears, becoming the third star to play Tom Clancy hero Jack Ryan; the CIA superstud was played by Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin in previous films. He also starred in Paycheck, the 2003 sci-fi adventure based on a story by Philip K. Dick. Affleck married Jennifer Garner on 29 June 2005; the couple's first child, a daughter, was born on 1 December 2005.
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Ben Affleck has come a long way in the nearly 10 years since he and Matt Damon won an Academy Award with their mothers by their sides. He's had more flops than blockbusters, a high-profile romance with Jennifer Lopez, and a daughter Violet, nearly 2, with his wife, actress Jennifer Garner. Now Affleck is staking his entire career on his new film Gone Baby Gone, a career that he now admits was sidelined by bad script choices and his dalliance with Lopez.
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