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

Early life

Affleck was born in Berkeley, California to Tim Affleck, a Scottish American social worker, and Chris, an Irish American school teacher; his younger brother is actor Casey Affleck. His father was Protestant and his mother was Catholic, and he was not raised in any religion.

Affleck grew up in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area and attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, as well as the University of Vermont.

Career

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 roles in several notable films, including 1993's Dazed and Confused
, 1995's Mallrats
and 1997's Chasing Amy
; "Mallrats" and "Amy" began his collaboration with writer/director Kevin Smith, in whose films he usually appears.

Affleck came to national attention when he and best friend Matt Damon (whom he had met while studying 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. Along with Damon and producer Chris Moore, Affleck founded the production company LivePlanet, through which the three created the documentary series Project Greenlight, as well as the failed mystery-hybrid series Push, Nevada.

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, some of his more recent films, including Gigli (2003) and Surviving Christmas
(2004) have been critically panned and performed poorly at the box office.

Affleck did not appear in any films released in 2005, but currently has several films scheduled for 2006 release, including Hollywoodland (playing actor George Reeves), Kevin Smith's Clerks 2, and Joe Carnahan's Narc follow-up, Smokin' Aces
. He will also appear in a lead role in an independent film from director Mike Binder, Man About Town
.

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