Biography of Matt Damon
Matt Damon is an American actor, an Oscar winner for the screenplay for the film “Clever Will Hunting.” He is also known for the role of Jason Bourne in the series of the film of the same name.
Early years
Matthew Page Damon was born on October 8, 1970 in Cameridge, Massachusetts. His father, Kent, was a broker, realtor and tax inspector. His mother, Nancy, is a professor at Leslie College in the field of education in the lower grades. Matt has a brother, Kyle, who is three years older than him. Matt’s parents divorced when he was two years old.
When he was 10 years old, he met a guy who lived from him two blocks down the street: Ben Affleck. After the couple was almost inseparable. They played basketball and in the role-playing game of the fantasy genre “Dungeons and Dragons”. They took double sessions for lousy films and both attended the expensive preparatory school Rindge & Latin. And then Matt realized that he really wanted
Career successes
Damon studied English at Harvard, but soon gave up his studies to pursue the career of the actor. Then he won major roles in the films “Benefactor” and “Clever Will Hunting”, for which he and his co-star Ben Affleck received an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. After that he starred in such films as “Saving Private Ryan”, “Talented Mr. Ripley”, “Bourne Identification” and his sequels “Bourne Supremacy” and “Bourne Ultimatum”. The budget of the movie “The Bourne Ultimatum” was 125 million dollars, the premiere took place on the weekend of August and became the largest in the history of cinema, collecting 70.2 million dollars only for the United States and Canada.
Personal life
Damon is married to Lucian Bozan Barroso, with whom they met for a long time. The wedding took place on December 9, 2005 in the City Hall of New York. They met when he was in the movie “Stuck in You” in Miami, at that time she worked as a bartender.
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In 2007, in the magazine People, Damon was chosen as “the most attractive man.” Surprised Damon said that “this is all advertising” friends of George Clooney and Brad Pitt, who were honored twice, finally bore fruit. “You have raised the ego of an aging provincial daddy for the rest of your life,” he said in a message published in the magazine. “Now my 9-year-old adopted daughter thinks I’m cool-well, it’s even steeper.”
In January 2008, Damon received a lot of media attention because of the video, in which he took part with comedian Sarah Silverman. The girl of the leading night talk show Jimmy Kimmela wrote a song where she bluntly stated that she had a close relationship with Damon. Damon himself took part in the video for the song, which was shown on Kimmel’s show and later became popular on the Internet.
Matt Damon received an Oscar for the role of rugby player Francois Pienaar in the film “The Unconquered.” Also in 2010, he starred in the thriller “Do not take it alive” and in the drama “Otherworldly” from director Clint Eastwood.
Last works
In recent years, Damon has been vigorously involved in various projects. He tried his hand at the family film “We bought the zoo” and played one of the main roles with John Krasinski in the film “Promised Land”, which refers to the problems of the environment. Then Damon received a lot of enthusiastic reviews for the role of the boyfriend of Liberace, Scott Thorson, in the television movie “Behind the Chandeliers” starring Michael Douglas.
Trying himself in science fiction, Damon plays a major role in the movie “Ellisium” with Jodie Foster, as well as in the film “Zero’s Theorem.” Then he starred in the military drama “Treasure hunters” – the original title “Monumentalists” – with George Clooney. In the autumn of the same year, he merged with his old friend Ben Affleck. Their film company Pearl Street Films agreed to work on the series “Incorporated” for the cable television channel SyFy. Pearl Street Films will work together on this project with CBS Television Studios.
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