Ben Affleck

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Biography

American actor, an Academy Award winner on 3/23/1998 for the Best Original Screenplay of the film "Good Will Hunting." He and Matt Damon were two Cambridge buddies who first did the script as a Harvard assignment. When Hollywood snapped up the script, 1997 was an incredible year for the two life-long friends, taking them on a rollicking ride from struggling actors, upstarts on a short list of hot new talent, to winners of the most prestigious award in the field. In three years he went from struggling to pay his $300-a-month rent to commanding $12 million per film.

The son of an auto mechanic turned photographer and a school teacher, he was his parents' Saturn-return child, born when they were both 29. When the boy was 12, his parents divorced, their marriage a casualty of his dad's drinking. Soon after, Tim Affleck started his sobriety with AA. Ben is known as a regular guy with no pretences and little ego. When visiting his mom he still takes his turn washing dishes.

At the age of seven, Ben had his first small film role in "The Dark End of the Street."

In late 1997 he began dating Gwyneth Paltrow, an affair that officially ended in early 1999.

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