Matt Damon Biography
Matt Damon is an American actor, producer, and screenwriter best known for his roles in films that have grossed over $3.88 billion at the North American box office. He is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time, with an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, and seven Primetime Emmy Awards to his name.
How old is Matt Damon? – Age
He is 52 years old as of 8 October 2022. He was born in 1970 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. His real name is Matthew Paige Damon.
Matt Damon Family – Education
Damon was born to Kent Telfer Damon and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, a Lesley University early childhood education professor. His father was of English and Scottish descent, while his mother was of Finnish and Swedish ancestry. Damon and his family relocated to Newton for two years before divorcing when their son was two years old. Damon and his brother grew up in a shared house in Cambridge, where his mother raised him.
Damon struggled to define himself as a lonely adolescent as a result of his mother’s “by the book” approach to child-rearing. He was a standout actor at Cambridge Alternative School and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Damon cited his theatre teacher Gerry Speca as a vital aesthetic influence, while his close buddy Ben Affleck received the most significant roles and delivered the longest monologues. Damon went to Harvard University, where he was a member of Lowell House and graduated in 1992. He wrote an early draft of the screenplay Good Will Hunting, for which he eventually won an Academy Award. Damon was a Delphic Club member who received the Harvard Arts Medal in 2013.
Matt Damon Wife
Damon met his Argentine wife, Luciana Bozán, in April 2003 while filming Stuck on You in Miami. They were engaged in September 2005 and married on December 9, 2005, in a private civil ceremony at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. They are the parents of three girls, born in June 2006, August 2008, and October 2010. He also has a stepdaughter, Alexia Barroso (born 1998), from his former marriage, whom he considers his own.
Matt Damon House
The couple has resided in Miami and New York City, and they have lived in Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood since 2012. Damon paid $16.5 million for a luxurious apartment in New York City’s Brooklyn Heights neighborhood in 2018. He likes the Boston Red Sox. He narrated the commemorative DVD release of the team’s 2007 World Series victory. He has competed in multiple World Series of Poker (WSOP) events, including the main event of the 2010 World Series of Poker. Doyle Brunson, a poker professional, knocked him out of the 1998 World Series of Poker.
Matt Damon Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $170 million.
Matt Damon Height
He stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches(1.78 m).
Matt Damon Good Will Hunting
During the mid 1990s, Damon and Affleck composed Good Will Hunting (1997), a screenplay about a youthful science virtuoso, an expansion of a screenplay he composed for a task at Harvard, having incorporated guidance from chief Loot Reiner, screenwriter William Goldman, and essayist/chief Kevin Smith. He requested that Affleck play out the scenes with him before the class and, when Damon later moved into Affleck’s Los Angeles condo, they started chipping away at the content all the more genuinely. The film, which they composed principally during ad lib meetings, was set somewhat in their old neighborhood of Cambridge, and drew from their own encounters.
They offered the screenplay to Palace Rock in 1994, yet after a contention with the organization, they persuaded Miramax to buy the content. The film got basic commendation; Quentin Curtis of The Day to day Transmit found “genuine mind and energy, and some profundity” in their composition and Emanuel Duty of Assortment composed of Damon’s acting, “[he] gives a magnetic exhibition in a requesting job that will undoubtedly launch him to fame.
Impeccably cast, he makes the throbbing, bit by bit change of Will practical and solid.” It got nine Foundation Grants designations, including Best Entertainer for Damon; he and Affleck won the Oscar and Brilliant Globe Grant for Best Screenplay. He and Affleck were each paid compensations of $600,000, while the film netted more than $225 million at the overall film industry. The two later ridiculed their jobs from the film in Kevin Smith’s 2001 film Jay and Quiet Sway Strike Back. Discussing his “unexpected phenomenon” through Kindness Hunting, Damon said at that point he had been working in the film for a considerable length of time, yet tracked down the change “almost unbelievable — going from complete haziness to strolling down a road in New York and having everyone turn and look”.
Matt Damon Crypto
He announced a new agreement with the cryptocurrency trading platform Crypto.com in October 2021, under which Crypto.com would donate $1 million to Water.org. “Crypto.com gave us this great donation, which is amazing,” Damon stated in the statement. I donate 100% of the proceeds from the commercials to Water.org as well. So we’re getting millions of dollars.”
Damon’s Crypto.com commercial first aired in theaters in late 2021, and then on television in January 2022, primarily during NFL games. It received a lot of flak after it was widely broadcast on television, as did the accompanying “making of” featurette.
Twitter has been chastised for a TV commercial in which Matt Damon compares cryptocurrency trading to the moon landings. Damon appears in the commercial, which played during Sunday night’s NFL games, promoting crypto.com, a platform for exchanging digital currencies such as Bitcoin, and comparing it to the moon landings. According to the New Zealand Herald, viewers found the commercial “insulting” and “disgusting.” Some tweets, including one from The Observer’s Carole Cadwalladr, called Damon’s ad a Ponzi scheme. Jody Rosen of the New York Times called the pitch “unseemly,” and the ad’s bleakness is shocking.
Matt Damon Movies
♦ 2024 – Drive-Away Dolls
♦ 2024 – IF
♦ 2024 – The Instigators
♦ 2023 – Air
♦ 2023 – Oppenheimer
♦ 2022 – Thor: Love and Thunder
♦ 2021 – No Sudden Move
♦ 2021 – Stillwater
♦ 2021 – The Last Duel
♦ 2019 – Ford v Ferrari
♦ 2019 – Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
♦ 2018 – Unsane
♦ 2018 – Deadpool 2
♦ 2018 – Ocean’s 8
♦ 2017 – Bending the Arc
♦ 2017 – Downsizing
♦ 2017 – Suburbicon
Matt Damon TV Shows
♦ 2019 – City on a Hill
♦ 2016 – The Runner
♦ 2016 – Incorporated
♦ 2015 – The Leisure Class
♦ 2014 – Years of Living Dangerously
♦ 2013 – House of Lies
♦ 2010–2011 – 30 Rock
♦ 2010 – Cubed
♦ 2009 – Entourage
♦ 2009 – The People Speak
♦ 2007 – Arthur
♦ 2006–present – Jimmy Kimmel Live!
♦ 2003–2014 – Journey to Planet Earth
♦ 2002, 2018 – Saturday Night Live
♦ 2002 – Push, Nevada
♦ 2002 – The Bernie Mac Show
♦ 2002 – Will & Grace
♦ 2015 – Project Greenlight
