Benjamin Geza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) in Berkeley, California, is an American actor and Oscar-winning screenwriter.

Acting
Natural inside Berkeley, California to Tim Affleck (of Protestant Scottish descent) and Chris (of Irish Catholic ancestry), he grew up in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area and attended college within Los Angeles at Occidental College. He presently sleep in Santa Monica, California. He was the child actor, having the role on the PBS kids' series The Voyage of the Mimi and made-for-television pic while young. He come to national attention whilst he & & his first right friend Matt Damon (whom he had met when researching at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School) wrote the screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997), for which they won an Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

He is too known for his roles around numerous of Kevin Smith's films - all of the two, as a matter of fact, except for Clerks..

Along using Matt Damon and producer Chris Moore, Affleck founded the production company LivePlanet, through which a tercet friends created the documental series Project Greenlight.

Affleck's virtually all recent films, including Gigli, Paycheck, Jersey Girl, and Surviving Christmas have been critically panned and massive pack professional bombs.

Romance
Affleck got the brief however high-profile romance using actress Gwyneth Paltrow following her breakup with Brad Pitt. He began dating actress/singer Jennifer Lopez, whom he met on the set of Gigli. Within 2002 it was announced that he was engaged to Lopez, and a relationship between them standard tremendous attention per amusement media. Two later on misused fans & believability, probably due around a portion to a saturation of Affleck/Lopez interviews & projects, & especially when the ill-famed failure of Gigli, which in a portion was due to the veto publicity which led to the few existence dubbed "Bennifer". It broke higher around 2004, with two blaming a media attention. Inside 2005 he proposed to his Daredevil costar, Alias star Jennifer Garner after nine months of dating. Inside May 2005 it was announced that Garner was pregnant [http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/0509garner.html], & it were married in June 29, 2005.

Poker
Affleck is as well an inspiring poker player, regularly entering local cases. He has been tutored by poker agents Amir Vahedi and Annie Duke. He win a California State Poker Championship on June 20 2004, taking personal a 1st prize of $356,000, & qualifying him for the 2004 World Poker Tour final tournament.

Political activism
In the final feverish weeks of Campaign 2000, Affleck spent his period passionately campaigning for the Popular ticket, supporting Al Gore, repeatedly delivering a develop-out-the-vote plea: "It's very important to vote. The president will appoint three or four Supreme Court justices."

When you took a final week of the race, Affleck stumped for Gore around California, Florida, & Pennsylvania. inside a period of the prevent in Pittsburgh, the star--along by owning Helen Hunt, Martin Sheen, Rob Reiner and other actors--spent an hour at the phone bank calling registered Democrats. "People in my generation have a low voter turnout. One of the reasons that I'm here is to demonstrate that no matter who you are going to vote for... I think it's important to get involved and get out and vote," Affleck told newsman. "But I'm going to tell people to vote for Gore."

In October 28, 2000, Affleck flew sustaining a Number 1 Lady (Hillary Clinton) to Ithacthe, New York, in which he introduced her at a Cornell University rally. Affleck told a college crowd that Clinton got been advocating for women & working families since "Rick Lazio was running around the frat house in his underwear." Lazio, so an extended Island representative, was Clinton's Republican opponent.

In Monday, November 6, The final day of the campaign, Affleck was one of many A-names celebrities summoned to Miami Beach by Miramax Films boss Harvey Weinstein for a late-nighttime Gore rally, upright hours prior to polls opened countrywide. A Gore campaign's go event, the final effort to energize South Beach elector, didn't prevent until astir I AM, however Affleck flew back to New York that morning and manufactured the surprise survive appearance on The Rosie O'Donnell Show. It was 10:15 while he processed his final public pitch from either the Rockefeller Center studio, noting that he was "a little bit tired...I've been out getting involved, doing stuff and trying to get people to vote. And that's why I came by here." Too, "Today is the get-out-the-vote day and...I think this is the time to get involved, especially the young folks who are here ... I'm about to go vote," Affleck so said, adding late, "I am personally gonna vote for Al Gore."

When is restored come therein nighttime, Affleck told Salon's Amy Reiter, "I'm nervous this evening, but one of the things that's exciting to me is the amount of people who voted. No matter who wins, I think it's a healthy thing for our country that so many voters have come out and participated in the process. Either way, I think the most important number will be the turnout." Surprisingly, when The Smoking Gun later discovered, Affleck himself got never bothered to vote.

In the Might 2001 issue of GQ, Affleck says, "My fantasy is that someday I'm independently wealthy enough that I'm not beholden to anybody, so I can run for Congress on the grounds that everyday people--be they singers or poets or bankers or lawyers or teachers--should be in government."

In the March 2003 issue of Vanity Fair, Affleck again floats the possibility of a first run Congress. "I think there's a real nobility to public service," he told a magazine. "It would be fun to run on a platform I really believed in, without being beholden to the win-at-all-costs mentality."

Inside 2004, Affleck actively campaigned for Popular presidential candidate John Kerry. In a period of the foremost day of the Democratic Conventiin, Affleck was featured on Larry King Live with Tucker Carlson and Al Sharpton. Larry King asked Affleck if he would assume run professional, & Affleck admitted to contemplating a proposition. Specific attentiin focused on whether or even does'nt he would run Kerry's open Senate seat (when Affleck was from either Massachusetts). He noted that a line between politics & amusement is becoming more and more bleary, when Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh all came from the entertainment business, although all were/are members of the Republican Party.

As of 2005, Affleck was widely being mentioned as a imaginable Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Virginia for the 2006 United States Senate race as an opposition for the incumbant, Republican star Sen. George Allen.

Director
Within 2006 will begin directing his number 1 feature Gone, Baby, Gone based on the Dennis Lehane novel about 2 Boston arethe detectives investigating the snatch of a female child.

Filmography
The Dark End of the Street (1981) Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie) (1992) School Ties (1992) Dazed and Confused (1993) Mallrats (1995) Glory Daze (1996) Going All the Way (1997) Chasing Amy (1997) Office Killer (1997) (scenes deleted) Good Will Hunting (1997) (also writer) Phantoms (1998) Armageddon (1998) Shakespeare in Love (1998) 200 Cigarettes (1999) Forces of Nature (1999) Dogma (1999) Boiler Room (2000) Reindeer Games (2000) Bounce (2000) Pearl Harbor (2001) Daddy and Them (2001) Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) Changing Lanes (2002) The Sum of All Fears (2002) The Third Wheel (2002) (also executive producer) Daredevil (2003) Gigli (2003) Paycheck (2003) Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party (2004) (documentary) Jersey Girl (2004) Surviving Christmas (2004) Elektra (2005) (scenes deleted) Man About Town (2005) (completed awaiting release through Dreamworks) Truth, Justice, and the American Way (2006) (currently inside post-production)