Ben Affleck

Acting · Born 1972-08-15 in Berkeley, California, USA

Biography

Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker. His accolades include two Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. He began his career as a child when he starred in the PBS educational series The Voyage of the Mimi (1984, 1988). He later appeared in the independent coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993) and various Kevin Smith films, including Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997) and Dogma (1999). Affleck gained wider recognition when he and childhood friend Matt Damon won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for writing Good Will Hunting (1997), which they also starred in. He then established himself as a leading man in studio films, including the disaster film Armageddon (1998), the war drama Pearl Harbor (2001),…

Filmography

• Good Will Hunting as Chuckie Sullivan
• Pearl Harbor as Rafe McCawley
• Dogma as Bartleby
• The Town as Doug MacRay
• Argo as Tony Mendez
• Air as Phil Knight
• Gone Girl as Nick Dunne
• Dazed and Confused as O'Bannion
• The Accountant as Christian Wolff
• The Rip as Detective Sergeant J.D. Byrne

TV

• The Osbournes as Self
• Inside the Actors Studio as Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
• The Daily Show as Self
• Today as Self
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self
• The Torkelsons as Kevin Johnson
• This Week
• The View as Self