Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American film actor, director, and Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter. He became known in the late 1990s, after his involvement in the film Good Will Hunting, and has since become a Hollywood leading man, having starred in several big budget films.
He’s 35!
Affleck was born Benjamin Géza Affleck in Berkeley, California to father Timothy Affleck, a social worker and drug rehab counselor, and mother Chris Boldt, a school teacher.
The family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts when Ben was very young. Affleck’s ancestry is Irish and Scottish; his parents divorced in 1984. Affleck’s younger brother is actor Casey Affleck.
At the age of eight, Affleck met ten-year-old Matt Damon, who lived two blocks away. Through the encouragement of their parents, Affleck and Damon would later attend Cambridge Rindge and Latin School together, although they were in different year groups. Affleck grew up in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area and attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, as well as the University of Vermont.
Affleck in Pop Culture:- Affleck was mentioned in “I’ll Sue Ya” in “Weird Al” Yankovic’s CD, Straight Outta Lynwood: “I’ll sue Ben Affleck…… aw, do I even need a reason?”
- On Will & Grace, after the character Jack has his voice dubbed over in his most recent TV series, he explains to Josh Lucas that Lucas is Matt Damon and that he’s “Ben Affleck in Gigli…or Paycheck…or Bounce…or Jersey Girl…or Surviving Christmas.” This is a joke on how many films he has had bomb.
- Affleck appears to embrace some of his failed movies; in Kevin Smith’s Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Affleck is seen alongside Damon on the fictitious set of Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season, where Damon mocks the failure of Afleck’s Reindeer Games while the two discuss their movie choices.
- Affleck has been prominent in two South Park episodes. In “How to Eat with Your Butt”, Affleck was found to be the missing child of a couple suffering from a facial deformity in which their heads were encased in buttocks. In “Fat Butt and Pancake Head”, Affleck was portrayed as Jennifer Lopez’s boyfriend, until he left her for Eric Cartman’s hand puppet, also named Jennifer Lopez. The puppet pronounces her name as “Hennifer Lopez,” because of her strong, forced Puerto Rican accent.
- Affleck is a favorite target of Mike Nelson’s RiffTrax.
- Affleck has also been parodied on Family Guy, in a flashback scene in which he was lying on the couch while Damon wrote Good Will Hunting, with the joke that he contributed nothing to the script, and added his name only after adding a word to a sentence.
- Affleck is mentioned in The Simpsons episode “See Homer Run”, saying that he ran most of Homer’s political campaign.
In the movie Team America, Affleck is mentioned in a song when the vocalist makes a joke about how he needs his girlfriend more than Affleck needs acting school.
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Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have named their new daughter Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck. Thoughts?
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