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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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