|
|
Photos Gallery
|
|
Matthew
Paige Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American actor and
screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original
Screenplay for his screenwriting in Good Will Hunting and was
nominated for his lead performance in the same film. Growing
steadily in popularity from the 1997 film, he has since matched up
with A-list actors in mainstream films, and today is rated amongst
the top actors in Hollywood. With his wife, Luciana Bozán
Barroso, Damon has a daughter, and also a stepdaughter from
Barroso's prior marriage. He has won multiple awards for his film
performances and is one of the top twenty-five highest grossing
actors of all time. In his most recent roles, he portrayed Jason
Bourne in The
Bourne Ultimatum, Among other high profile roles, Damon played
a fictionalized version of Wilhelm Grimm in Terry Gilliam's
fantasy adventure The Brothers Grimm and an energy analyst in
Syriana. He was recently onscreen in Robert De Niro's The
Good Shepherd as a career CIA agent, and played an undercover
mobster working for the Massachusetts State Police in Martin
Scorsese's Oscar-winning The Departed, and in Steven Soderbergh's
2001 remake of the Rat Pack's 1960 caper classic Ocean's Eleven.
The successful crime dramedy spawned two sequels: Ocean's Twelve
(2004) and Ocean's
Thirteen (2007). Damon's future projects include three films
that will debut between 2008 and 2009: In 2008, he will portray
Mr. Aaron in the drama Margaret. He began filming Green Zone in
January, 2008, and starts filming Steven Soderbergh's thriller,
The Informant, in Central Illinois during April, 2008. Damon has
also signed on for a fourth Bourne film, although a release date
has yet to be announced ... more |
|
|
