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Matt Damon

An affable player who has cultivated friendships in tandem with his showbiz career, Damon began acting professionally while attending Harvard University. His first notable role was as an anti-Semitic student in the 1992 teen drama School Ties, costarring his childhood buddy and future collaborator Ben Affleck... read more

An affable player who has cultivated friendships in tandem with his showbiz career, Damon began acting professionally while attending Harvard University. His first notable role was as an anti-Semitic student in the 1992 teen drama School Ties, costarring his childhood buddy and future collaborator Ben Affleck. After a handful of supporting parts, Damon and Affleck cowrote and costarred in the hit 1997 indie drama Good Will Hunting. Not only did Damon earn an Oscar nod for his winning portrayal of a quiet genius, the duo picked up an Oscar for best screenplay. As both actors' stars continued to rise, they made cameos in each other's projects and also produced the popular filmmaking reality series Project Greenlight. Damon went on to deliver top-notch performances in diverse roles, such as a murderous impostor in The Talented Mr. Ripley, a suave thief in Ocean's Eleven and an amnesia-stricken spy in The Bourne Identity. Once again proving his willingness to physically transform himself for a role (he lost 40 pounds for 1996's Courage Under Fire), Damon packed on the pounds for 2009's The Informant!, in which he played a doughy corporate executive. Despite the steady stream of work, Damon still found time for some fun, capitalizing on a long-running joke with Jimmy Kimmel by appearing in a humorous and sexually suggestive music video with Kimmel's on-again-off-again girlfriend Sarah Silverman. Off screen, Damon married interior designer Luciana Barroso. He is also active in a number of charities and is a founding member of the production company LivePlanet. ~ Rovi

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Aug 07, 2007 - pobrien
Frat boy with connections or exceptional thespian?

Damon has always wavered with me on this line between talented extra and exceptional actor. Much of his work feels a benefit of his Hollywood connections and school boy aspirations to be in film. On the other hand his best work is truly exceptional. The Talented Mr. Ripley was painful for me, as I watched him struggle in a role terribly out of character for him. Movies like Dogma, Rounders, and Ocean's Eleven confirm for me that he's well connected and merely a school boy who wants to be in the movies. Then again, his work with Saving Private Ryan, The Good Shepherd, and of course Good Will Hunting highlight his remarkable talent as does his vulnerable, enigmatic Jason Bourne.

Let's not even talk about Stuck on You... Jersey Girl... Eurotrip??

Fun fact? He was only an extra in Kevin Costner's Field of Dreams

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We Bought a Zoo (2011)
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Happy Feet Two (2011)
The Krill
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American Teacher (2011)
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Margaret (2011)
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Contagion: The IMAX Experience (2011)
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Contagion (2011)
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Contagion: The IMAX Experience (2011)
Mitch Emhoff
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Contagion (2011)
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The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
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The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
David Norris
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Bureau de contrôle (2011)
David Norris
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True Grit (2010)
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True Grit (2010)
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Le Vrai Courage (2010)
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Au-delà (2010)
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Hereafter (2010)
George
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Hereafter (2010)
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Inside Job (2010)
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Green Zone (2010)
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La Zone Verte (2010)
Roy Miller
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Green Zone (2010)
Roy Miller
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Invictus (2009)
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The Informant! (2009)
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The Informant! (2009)
Mark Whitacre
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L'infiltré (2009)
Mark Whitacre
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Ponyo (Gake no ue no Ponyo) (2009)
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Ponyo (2008)
Koichi
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La vengeance dans la peau (2007)
Jason Bourne
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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Jason Bourne
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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
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Danny Ocean 13 (2007)
Linus Caldwell
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Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Linus Caldwell
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Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
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The Good Shepherd (2006)
Edward Wilson
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The Good Shepherd (2006)
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The Departed (2006)
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The Departed (2006)
Colin Sullivan
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Feast (2006)
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The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Wilhelm Grimm
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The Brothers Grimm (2005)
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Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Linus Caldwell
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Howard Zinn: You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004)
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The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
Jason Bourne
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The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
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Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004)
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Eurotrip (2004)
Donny
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Gerry (2003)
Gerry
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Gerry (2003)
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The Bourne Identity (2002)
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The Bourne Identity (2002)
Jason Bourne
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
Voice of Spirit
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Stolen Summer (2002)
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Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Linus Caldwell
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Ocean's Eleven (2001)
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All the Pretty Horses (2000)
John Grady Cole
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Titan A.E. (2000)
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Tom Ripley
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Dogma (1999)
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Dogma (1999)
Loki/Larry
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Rounders (1998)
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Rounders (1998)
Mike McDermott
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Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Private James Francis Ryan
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Saving Private Ryan (1998)
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Good Will Hunting (1998)
Will Hunting
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Good Will Hunting (1997)
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The Rainmaker (1997)
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Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
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The People Speak
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Running the Sahara
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American Teacher
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The Third Wheel
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Inside Job
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Running the Sahara
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Invictus
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Margaret
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