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Trivia
Birth name: Benjamin Geza Affleck Date of birth:
15 August 1972 Place of birth:
Berkeley, California, USA Height: 6' 2½" (1.89 m) Spouse:
Jennifer Garner (29 June 2005 - present) 1 child
Fined $135 for driving in Massachusetts with
a suspended license. [1999]
Dated Gwyneth Paltrow. [1998 - Jan 1999]
Brother of actor Casey Affleck.
Friend of and frequent collaborator with
actor Matt
Damon.
Owns vintage Ms. Pac-Man and Millipede
video-arcade games.
He was accidentally knocked unconscious by
football player Dana Stubblefield during the filming of Reindeer Games
(2000). Stubblefield slipped, and Affleck was knocked down. He was taken
to the hospital, but fully recovered.
When he was little, he asked his mom for a
dog, and she tested him by making him walk an imaginary dog for a week.
Ben only lasted for 5 days and didn't get the dog.
Graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin
High School in 1990.
Dropped out of the University of Vermont
after 1 semester.
Dropped out of Occidental College after 1
year, where he had studied Middle Eastern studies.
He and Matt
Damon sold their Good Will Hunting (1997) script for $600,000.
Has his teeth capped.
Owns 5 motorcycles.
Chosen as one of People Magazine's 50 Most
Beautiful People in the World [2000]
Chosen as one of People Magazine's Most
Beautiful People in the World [1999]
Auditioned for Corey Haim's part in License
to Drive (1988).
Was an extra with friend Matt
Damon in Field of Dreams (1989).
Charlie Sheen drove him to Promises
Rehabilitation Center in August, 2001
Ranked #77 in Premiere's 2002 annual Power
100 List.
Is known for being a very good
impressionist. He usually picks one of his costars while filming a movie
and studies them. He displays his impressions on "The Tonight Show
with Jay Leno" (1992) almost every time he is a guest. While
filming The Sum of All Fears (2002), he chose to study co-star Morgan
Freeman. When he showed Morgan his impression on set, itwas so
accurate Freeman told him, "You ever do that again, I'll kill
you".
Confirms engagement to Jennifer
Lopez, after giving her a reported $3.5 million ring. (Nov. 2002)
His mother is Irish and father is Scottish.
Voluntarily entered Promises Rehabilitation
Center in Malibu, CA for alcohol abuse. [31 July 2001]
Named People's Sexiest Man Alive (2002)
He was inspired to contribute to the Neil
Bogart Memorial Fund, which supports cancer research at Los Angeles
Children's Hospital, after meeting Molly Hanna, who died of cancer in
2002. She was a student in his mother's fifth-grade class.
Growing up, the Marvel Comic book character
Daredevil was his hero. He got to play the character in the 2003 movie.
Ranked #41 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power
100 List.
Is getting paid $1.5 million dollars for
doing commercials for L'Oreal Shampoo. (2003)
Has a Boston Celtics logo painted on the
basketball court at his house.
In the fall of 2003, he volunteered to spend
several days with disabled children.
Is a devoted fan of the baseball team Boston
Red Sox
Speaks Spanish.
Dated Jennifer
Lopez [July 2002 - January 2004].
Jennifer
Lopez wrote the song "Dear Ben" about him and how much she
loved him.
With the exception of Clerks. (1994), he has
appeared in all of Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse films.
He learned to speak Arabic.
He won $356,000 by winning the California
State Poker Championships in June 2004 - defeating some of the best
poker players in the world in the process.
Is a first-time uncle to younger brother
Casey's son, Indiana August, who was born on May 31st 2004 in Amsterdam
to Casey and his fiancee, actress Summer Phoenix, who is the youngest
sister and sibling to the late R'iver Phoenix' .
Appeared in a prop photo used in the movie
Mermaids (1990).
In 2001, was filming four movies
simultaneously: Pearl Harbor (2001), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
(2001), Changing Lanes (2002), and The Sum of All Fears (2002).
When he was dating Jennifer
Lopez, hated the paparazzi referring to them as "Bennifer."
Is a staunch Democrat and has supported
Senator John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.
In 1999, he was nominated for the Razzie
Award, Worst Screen Couple in the movie Armageddon (1998) with actress Liv
Tyler. In 2004, he was again nominated for, and subsequently
"won", the Worst Screen Couple Award with co-star Jennifer
Lopez in the movie Gigli (2003). One year later (2005), he was
nominated, once again, for Worst Screen Couple, this time with both of
the actresses (Jennifer
Lopez or Liv
Tyler) in the film Jersey Girl (2004).
As of 2005, has a total of seven Razzie
Nominations (including three for Worst Actor) and two "wins".
His girlfriend Jennifer
Garner announced she is 3 months pregnant with their first baby.
(May 7, 2005)
Prior to achieving leading man status, he
was often cast as a bully.
Had four different stunt men for Daredevil
(2003), each one with a different specialty (fighting, wire works,
etc.). He tried to do as much of his own stunts as he possibly could,
feeling that it would add more credibility to the film.
Is a fan of the Red Sox baseball team
Speaks French
His wife, Jennifer
Garner, gave birth to a daughter, Violet Anne Affleck, on December 1
2005, in Los Angeles, California.
Appeared with wife Jennifer
Garner in two movies, Pearl Harbor (2001) and Daredevil (2003). It
would have been three, but Affleck's small scene in Elektra (2005), was
cut from the final film |
