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Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated
American film actor, director, and Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe
Award-winning screenwriter.
He became known in the late 1990s, after his involvement in the film Good Will
Hunting, and has since become a Hollywood leading man, having starred in several
big budget films.
Affleck worked as a child actor, appearing on the PBS kids' series The Voyage of
the Mimi and in several made-for-television movies. Throughout the 1990s, Affleck
had a role in LifeStories:Families in Crisis as a steroid abusing athlete as well
as several notable films, including 1992's School Ties (with Matt Damon and Brendan
Frasier), 1993's Dazed and Confused, 1995's Mallrats and 1997's Chasing Amy;
"Mallrats" and "Amy" began his collaboration with writer/director Kevin Smith.
Affleck has since appeared in every film Smith has made, except for his first film
Clerks.
Affleck had a one line speaking role as a high school basketball player in the
original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. Affleck and fellow Boston Red Sox fanatic
Matt Damon had roles as extras in the movie Field of Dreams when Kevin Costner and
James Earl Jones go to Fenway Park.
Affleck came to national attention working with his best friend Matt Damon in Good
Will Hunting (1997). They shared credit and both received the Oscar for Best
Original Screenplay. Along with Damon and producers Chris Moore and Sean Bailey,
Affleck founded the production company LivePlanet, through which the four created
the documentary series Project Greenlight, as well as the failed mystery-hybrid
series Push, Nevada amongst other projects.
Following Good Will Hunting, Affleck had starring roles in many successful movies,
including Armageddon, Forces of Nature, Pearl Harbor, Changing Lanes, The Sum of
All Fears and Daredevil, establishing himself as a Hollywood leading man throughout
the early 2000s.
However, after the release of several critically panned, box office flops,
including Gigli (2003) and Surviving Christmas (2004), Affleck's career waned
considerably. He did not appear in any films until 2006 when he appeared in Clerks
II.
In addition to being a fan of the Daredevil comics (Frank Miller's run
specifically), he wrote the introduction to the trade paperback Daredevil: Guardian
Devil which reprints Daredevil (Volume 2) #1–8 (written by Kevin Smith).
Affleck made what can be considered a comeback with the September 2006 release of
the critically acclaimed George Reeves biopic-noir Hollywoodland, directed by HBO
TV-series veteran Allen Coulter.
His performance was impressive enough that he was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best
Actor at the Venice Film Festival and has also won the Best Supporting Actor award
at the Hollywood Film Festival and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture.
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