Spouse: Jennifer Garner (m. 2005; div. 2018) ---- Jennifer Lopez (m. 2022)
Children: daughters Violet Anne (born December 2005) and Seraphina Rose Elizabeth (born January 2009)
Net Worth: $150 million
Benjamin Affleck was born on August 15, 1972, in Berkeley, California in an Irish-Scottish family. His mother, Christopher Anne "Chris" Boldt was a school teacher and his father, Timothy Byers Affleck was as an aspiring actor who was mostly unemployed, but he worked sporadically as a carpenter, auto mechanic, bartender, and janitor at Harvard.
Affleck always wanted to act, and he got his first acting job in an advertisement for Burger King, and in 1984 he met his now best friend actor Matt Damon as they both took drama classes together.
However at some point, the actor was living in an apartment with his brother Casey, and Matt, and he and matt were always having trouble to always being turned down at movie auditions, soon after, The duo decided to write their own script.
The pair wrote the script for the famous movie Good Will Hunting (1997) and gave it to their agent Patrick Whitesell who was able to send it to Castle Rock, resulting in making the movie happen.
In December 5, 1997, Good Will Hunting (1997) was released, making the two unknown actors famous. The film was nominated for 9 Academy Awards and won two, including Best Original Screenplay for Ben and Matt. The film marked Ben's breakthrough role, in which he was given for the first time the chance to choose roles instead of having to go through grueling auditions constantly.
