Jennifer Garner is a popular American actress, known all over the world for her participation in such films as "Valentine's Day", "Juneau", "The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past". For some time she was the producer and director of the TV series "Spy", in which she played the main role.
Biography
Jennifer Ann Garner was born in the largest city in the American state of Texas, Houston, in 1972. She became the second of three daughters in a family of a chemical specialist and a local school teacher. Both parents were Catholic and raised their children in accordance with their religious views. In Texas, the girl lived only the first few years of her life, after which fate threw her father to the state of Carolina, where he was invited to a large company that manufactures chemicals. The whole family moved with him, so Jennifer's childhood was spent in the small town of Charleston. There she began to study at a ballet school and fell in love with the stage.
Despite the fact that Jennifer was passionate about dancing, she did not see her future in them. After school, she planned to follow in her father's footsteps and become a chemist, but she quickly realized that she could not do without a stage in her adult life. Then she decided to go to a theater institute, and later move to New York and play in the best theaters of the big city.
Career in theater and cinema
For a while, things went really badly. She received scanty sums for her work, she was not even hired for secondary roles, she was only an understudy for more experienced actresses. At the age of 23, the situation began to change in a positive direction: she was taken on a supporting role in the historical picture "Zoya". For the next few years, Garner went to dozens of castings and played dozens of supporting characters in the series. In parallel, she had to earn money in a restaurant, because there was not enough money at all, and there was not much work.
In 2001, the actress began to play in the TV series "Spy", and received the long-awaited fame and fame. She has received numerous prestigious awards for her work, including a Golden Globe. By the fifth season, she was a producer on the series and directed several episodes and was making tens of millions of dollars a year. In parallel, she played in the successful superhero films "Daredevil" and "Electra". Since 2006, Jennifer Garner has appeared in many successful romantic comedies, dramas and action films.
Personal life
With a romantic relationship, the actress is not so lucky as with movie roles. She first married actor Scott Foley in 2000, but after 3 years she publicly announced her divorce. Her new chosen one was also a colleague whom she met on the set of Pearl Harbor, Ben Affleck. A year after the start of the relationship, the couple legalized them.
In this acting union, two daughters and a son were born. Unfortunately, for a long time Jennifer Garner tried to close her eyes to her husband's alcohol addiction, but in 2015, after 10 years of marriage, she decided to start divorce proceedings. It has not been completed yet, but the actress claims that Affleck is undergoing treatment in a rehabilitation center, after which all the necessary papers will be signed.
