Ben Affleck

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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. <p>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...