I was living here with a group of actors, and we were all struggling to make ends meet,” he said.Ī great friend of Damon’s is actor Ben Affleck, having met when they were not yet famous, the first was 10 and Affleck was 8 at the time. “By the time I found out I had made the wrong decision, it was too late. Damon left university to pursue his acting career in Los Angeles, because he mistakenly expected Geronimo: An American Legend to become a huge success. He participated in the student theater, appearing in plays such as Burn This in Winthrop House and A … My Name is Alice (in one of the three male roles usually played by women). At Harvard, he studied English and lived in Matthews Hall and then Lowell House. ”ĭamon studied at Harvard University from 1988 to 1992, but did not graduate. Damon worked as an actor in several high school theatrical productions he credited his drama teacher at Rindge and Latin, Gerry Speca, as an important artistic influence, although Damon recalled that, “Mr. As a young loner, he described himself as feeling “a pain of wanting to belong somewhere and not belonging”. Another of Damon’s neighbors was historian and author Howard Zinn, whose biographical film You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train and the audio version of A People’s History of the United States he would later narrate.ĭamon started acting very early, partly because his mother raised him “strictly according to the rules”, which made him feel like “he couldn’t define himself, because you had already been defined by her.” He attended Cambridge Alternative School (now Graham and Parks) and then Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where he was a disciplined student, but had his first two “terrible” years due to his short stature at the time. Damon grew up close to actor Ben Affleck, friend and collaborator on several films (Damon is Affleck’s tenth cousin, once removed, through a common New England ancestor). After their parents divorced, Damon and his brother moved with their mother back to Cambridge, where they lived in a communal home with six families. He and his family moved to Newton where they lived for two years. His brother Kyle is an accomplished sculptor and artist. His father has Scottish and English ancestry, while his mother is of Finnish and Swedish origin. Matt Damon was born on Octoin Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Kent Telfer, a stockbroker, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, a university professor of education, at Lesley University. Damon gained a generally positive critical reaction for his interpretation of Ripley that earned him a Golden Globe nomination, with Variety stating: “Damon exceptionally transmits his character’s slides from an innocent, cold and calculating enthusiasm”. Ripley (1999) to a fallen angel who discusses popular culture as a matter of issue intellectual with Affleck in Dogma (1999) from a pair of Siamese twins in Stuck on You (2003), which received a mixed critical reception, to the low budget experimental film Gerry (2002), which he co-wrote with Ben Affleck and Gus Van Sant. Damon has been actively involved in charity work, including ONE Campaign, H2O Africa Foundation, and .ĭamon became known for choosing a wide variety of film roles, from his interpretation of Patricia Highsmith ‘s anti-hero Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. In 2007, Damon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was named the sexiest man alive by People magazine. He is one of the 40 highest grossing actors of all time. Ripley (1999) and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as François Pienaar in Invictus(2009).
He received a Golden Globe nomination for playing the title character in The Talented Mr. For his role in the film, Damon received nominations for the Oscars, Golden Globe, Satellite Award, and Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor.ĭamon has since starred in commercially successful films such as Saving Private Ryan (1998), the Ocean trilogy, and four films in the Bourne series, while earning critical acclaim for his performances in dramas such as Syriana (2005 ), The Good Shepherd (2006) and The Departed (2006). The duo won the Oscar for best original screenplay and the Golden Globe for best screenplay for their work.
Matthew “Matt” Paige Damon ( Cambridge, 8 of October of 1970 ) is an actor, screenwriter, producer and philanthropist American, whose career was launched following the success of the drama film Good Will Hunting (1997) from a screenplay that he co-wrote with friend and actor Ben Affleck.
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