His mother, Christine Anne “Chris” (née Boldt), is a school district employee and teacher, and his father, Timothy Byers Affleck, has been, at various times, a drug counselor, social worker, janitor, auto mechanic, bartender, writer, director, and actor with the Theater Company of Boston. His younger brother is actor Casey Affleck. Affleck attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, as well as the University of Vermont, and majored in Middle Eastern affairs. He had the starring role in Smith’s Jersey Girl and has appeared in every View Askewniverse-Jersey film Smith has made to date, with the exception of Clerks. Along with Damon and producers Chris Moore and Sean Bailey, Affleck founded the production company LivePlanet, through which the four created the documentary series Project Greenlight, as well as the failed mystery-hybrid series Push, Nevada, among other projects. in 1999, he co-starred with Sandra Bullock in the romantic comedy Forces of Nature. The movie, which ignored the events of the previous Jack Ryan films, also starred Morgan Freeman. Despite some critical missteps, his box office successes reportedly earned Affleck an average of $15M per film.

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He dated the actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 1998. Affleck was born in Berkeley, California. Mallrats and Amy marked the beginning of his collaboration with writer/director Kevin Smith. This story was that for me.” He also said “I didn’t want someone else to do it, because I was afraid that they would go out and do it different from the comic and screw it up.” Roger Ebert, in review of Daredevil, wrote that both Affleck and co-star Jennifer Garner, were suitable for their roles. He knows this character from the inside: the surface charm, the hidden vulnerability, the ache of watching a career become a joke and being helpless to stop it.” Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote that Affleck gives a “strong performance”. That was really valuable.

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