Ben Affleck is a successful American actor, whose biography is also interesting for his outstanding directorial merits. It is worth noting that he remains one of the Hollywood sex symbols, which plays an important role in his personal life.
Biography
Ben Affleck was born in 1972 in the American town of Berkeley. After a while, the parents divorced, and together with his mother, as well as Casey's younger brother, he had to move to Massachusetts. In early childhood, Ben accidentally was invited to a role in the serial "Mimi's Journey", after which he began to dream of an acting career.
After school, Ben Affleck without hesitation went to conquer Hollywood, but he, in turn, was in no hurry to raise him to the top of Olympus. The novice actor, who also did not have a special education, was offered only minor roles in films and TV series "High and Confused", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Daddy" and others. In 1995, he met director Kevin Smith, and he offered Affleck a role in the film "Dogma". Subsequently, the actor appeared in almost every director's film.
Further events developed in an interesting way. As a child, Ben Affleck and his longtime friend, another famous Hollywood actor Matt Daymond, composed a play with a twisted plot. Affleck was able to bring it to the Hollywood bosses, and in that toga she formed the basis of the movie "Good Will Hunting". Daymond and Affleck starred in it, and the film won two Oscars, becoming one of the best in 1998. After that, the career of the actor from Berkeley quickly went up. He has starred in such blockbusters as Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Daredevil and others.
In 2012, Ben Affleck tried himself as a director by releasing the film Operation Argo. The film was incredibly successful and won three Oscars, including Best Picture of the Year. The actor himself returned to dramatic roles, starring in the action-packed thriller Gone Girl, the action movie Reckoning, and the blockbuster Batman v Superman, playing the Batman himself.
Personal life
Ben Affleck is a famous Hollywood womanizer. His first love was an ordinary American girl Cheyenne Rotman, but in 1997 the actor broke up with her for a relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow. After a couple of years, the couple broke up, and Ben began to spin novel after novel. But he experienced especially vivid feelings for the pop diva and actress Jennifer Lopez. The case even moved towards the wedding, but this relationship ended without reaching a climax.
Ben Affleck's next passion was actress Jennifer Garner. With her, he entered into an official marriage, and in 2005 they had a daughter, Violet Anne. Subsequently, the couple became the happy parents of another daughter, Seraphin Rose, Elizabeth, and a son, Samuel. By 2017, the relationship between Affleck and his wife was heating up, and the affair began to move towards divorce. The actor is not yet in a hurry to draw up divorce documents and hopes that the spouses will reconcile again.
