Matt Damon Biography, Family, Wife, Movies, Children, Awards and Worth

Matt Damon Biography

Matt Damon, an American actor, film producer and screenwriter was born Matthew Paige Damon on October 8, 1970 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.His father, Kent, worked in finance and real estate while his mother, Nancy, was a professor in early childhood education.

The family lived in Newton until his parents divorced in 1973, when Damon and his brother moved with his mother to Cambridge. He grew up in a stable community, and was raised near actor Ben Affleck.

Damon is the founder of H2O Africa Foundation, a charitable arm of the Running the Sahara expedition, that merged with Water Partners to create Water.org in July year 2009. Damon, along with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, David Pressman, and Jerry Weintraub, is one of the founders of Not On Our Watch Project. Its an organization that focuses global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities such as in Darfur. Damon supports the ONE Campaign, which is aimed at fighting AIDS and poverty in Third World countries. He has appeared in their print and television advertising.

Damon is also an ambassador for ONEXONE which is a nonprofit foundation committed to supporting, preserving and improving the lives of children at home in Canada, the United States, and all over the world. Damon is also a spokesperson for Feeding America, a hunger-relief organization, and a member of their Entertainment Council, participating in their Ad Council public service announcements. Damon is also a board member of Tonic Mailstopper (formerly GreenDimes), a company that attempts to halt junk mail delivered to American homes each day.

Matt Damon Movie Career

At age 18 Matt Damon landed a small part in Mystic Pizza in the year 1988 and also enrolled in Harvard University as an English major. After appearing in the television movie Rising Son in 1990, he left Harvard to pursue an acting career just 12 credits short of graduation.

Matt Damon next appeared as a soldier in 1996’s Courage Under Fire, for which he lost 40 pounds (18 kg) in 100 days on a self-prescribed diet and fitness regimen.The following year, 1997, Matt garnered accolades for Good Will Hunting, a script he had originally written for for an English class at Harvard University.He won an award for the best original screenplay along with his childhood friend, Ben Affleck.

The award came as a breakthrough to his acting career as Matt became sought after and this led to him landing roles in various films in the 1990’s.He starred in films such as Rounders in 1998,  World War II, the blockbuster Saving Private Ryan in 1998 and Anthony Minghella’s Talented Mr. Ripley in 1999.

Matt Damon continued making high-profile projects into the new millennium with films that included The Bourne Identity released in 2002 along with its sequels The Bourne Supremacy in the year 2004 and The Bourne Ultimatum which premiered in 2007. The $110 million Bourne Ultimatum had the largest August opening weekend in movie history, doing an estimated $70.2 million of business in the United States and Canada and holding that record until the release of 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy

In 2006 Damon starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson in The Departed; the crime thriller, which was directed by Martin Scorsese, won an Academy Award for best picture. In 2009 Matt Damon lent his voice to Ponyo, the English version of Miyazaki Hayao’s animated Gake no ue no Ponyo ( “Ponyo on the Cliff”). He later portrayed an unreliable whistleblower in The Informant! which was released in 2009.

In the year 2010 Matt Damon starred in the films  True Grit , though the thriller Green Zone of which both had a more mixed reception. He teamed up with Eastwood again for the 2010 drama Hereafter and the following year played a politician romancing Emily Blunt’s dancer character in the sci-fi drama The Adjustment Bureau.

Returning to science fiction, Damon starred in Elysium with Jodie Foster and The Zero Theorem, both in 2013. He went on to appear in the war drama The Monuments Men als released in 2014 with George Clooney. Later in 2014, Damon once again teamed up with longtime friend Affleck.

In 2015, he played the main character, astronaut Mark Watney, in Ridley Scott’s The Martian, based on Andy Weir’s best-selling novel of the same name, a role that earned Matt Damon the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and his second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.The Martian has earned almost $600 million worldwide.

In 2017, Matt Damon played the lead role in Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall, a film that became a hit at international box offices.

Matt Damon Age

Matt Damon was born on October 8, 1970 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Matt Damon Wife

Matt Damon married his longtime girlfriend, Argentine-born Luciana Bozán Barroso in December 2005 in New York City Hall. The two had met while he was filming Stuck On You in Miami, where she was working as a bartender.

Matt Damon Children-Matt Damon Daughters

Matt Damon and his Argentine-born wife, Luciana Bozán Barroso have four daughters Alexia a step daughter from Luciana’s  previous relationship as well as Isabella, Gia and Stella.

Matt Damon Brother

Matt Damons elder brother is called Kyle Damon.

Matt Damon Networth

He is worth $170 Million

Matt Damon House

The main house has seven bedrooms, nine baths and one half-bath, as well as a pool, rooftop terrace, theater room, wine cellar and gourmet kitchen. The waterfront property also includes a two-bedroom, two-bathroom guest house.

Matt Damon Movies

• The Monuments Men (2013)
• 2013 The Zero Theorem (2013)
• 2013 Elysium (2013)
• 2013 Behind the Candelabra (TV movie) (2013)
• 2013 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV series) (2013)
• 2012 Promised Land (2012)
• 2011 Saturday Night Live (TV series) (2011)
• We Bought a Zoo (2011)
• Happy Feet Two (2011)
• American Teacher (2011)
• Contagion (2011)
• The Adjustment Bureau (2010)
• True Grit (2010)
• Hereafter (2010)
• Inside Job (2010)
• Green Zone (2010)
• Invictus (2009)
• The Informant! (2009)
• Ponyo (2009)
• Che Part One (2008)
• Che Part Two (2008)
• The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
• Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)
• Margaret (2006)
• The Good Shepherd (2006)
• The Departed (2006)
• Syriana (2005)
• Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005)
• The Brothers Grimm (2005)
• The Third Wheel (2004)
• Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
• The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
• Jersey Girl (2004)
• Eurotrip (2004)
• Split Screen (2003)
• Stuck on You (2003)
• Gerry (2003)
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
• The Bourne Identity (2002)
• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
• The Majestic (2001)
• Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
• All the Pretty Horses (2000)
• Finding Forrester (2000)
• The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
• Titan A.E. (2000)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
• Dogma (1999)
• Rounders (1998)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• The Rainmaker (1997)
• Chasing Amy (1997)
• Glory Daze (1996)
• Courage Under Fire (1996)
• Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
• School Ties (1992)
• Rising Son (1990)
• Mystic Pizza (1988)

Matt Damon Awards

Matt Damon, the talented  actor, film producer and screenwriter has won numerous awards which include: Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Primetime Emmy Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Alliance of Women Film Journalists, American Cinematheque Award, Australian Film Institute, Awards Circuit Community Awards, Berlin International Film Festival, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and several other awards.

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