Ben Affleck is an American actor and filmmaker. He was born on August 15, 1972, and over the years, he has won two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards as well as three Golden Globes. It must be noted that the acting career of Ben Affleck started off as a child and that was when he made an appearance in the PBS educational series The Voyage of the Mimi(1985 and 1988).
It must be noted that Ben Affleck became recognized when he and Matt Damon won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for writing Good Will Hunting in 1997. Ben Affleck has over the years established himself as an actor in the lead role.
He co-wrote Gone Baby Gone in 2007 and he also directed it. Ben Affleck also directed and starred in the crime drama titled The Town(2010) and in the political thriller Argo(2012).
Ben Affleck is the co-founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative and he supports the Democratic Party. He also owns Artists Equity with Damon and at a point in time, they owned Pearl Street Films.
Ben Affleck was born in Berkeley, California but his family moved to Massachusetts when he was just 3 years old. He was born to Christopher Anne Boldt and Timothy Byers Affleck.
His mother was a Havard-educated Elementary School teacher and his father was a playwright but from time to time worked as a carpenter, auto mechanic, electrician, bartender as well as a janitor due to unemployment. The Father of Ben Affleck had a big problem with alcoholism.
Ben Affleck had his education at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School and was involved in theatre productions. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon traveled to New York for acting auditions.
Ben Affleck studied Spanish at the University of Vermont for a few months but due to a fracture of his hip while playing basketball, he stopped.
Over the years, Ben Affleck is known to have been involved with Jennifer Garner whom he married between 2005 and 2018, as well as Jennifer Lopez. He dated Jennifer Lopez from 2002 to 2004.
Ben Affleck is known to be suffering from anxiety and depression and since age 26, he has been taking antidepressants. He was also an alcoholic. It must be noted that there is a history of addiction and mental illness in Ben Affleck’s family.
Ben Affleck’s Wife. Is He Married?
Ben Affleck is married and he is married to Jennifer Lopez. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez got married in 2022 at Las Vegas.
Jennifer Lopez was born on July 24, 1969, and she is popularly known as J.Lo. Jennifer Lopez can be described as an American singer and actress. She was born in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, and raised in its Castle Hill neighborhood.
His parents are David López and Guadalupe Rodríguez. They were born in Puerto Rico but met each other in New York. Jennifer Lopez‘s father served as a computer technician at Guardian Insurance Company whereas Guadalupe was a homemaker for the first ten years of López’s life and later worked as a Tupperware salesperson.
Jennifer Lopez has a younger sister and an older sister: Leslie, and Lynda. Concerning education, Jennifer Lopez attended Holy Family School and Preston High School. While in school, she danced in school musicals and played a lead role in a production of Godspell. On the national level, she ran track and was involved in gymnastics and softball.
Without a doubt, she is one of the most popular and influential Hispanic entertainers in North America. Jennifer Lopez was ranked the world’s most powerful celebrity by Forbes in 2012.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Affleck
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