Matt Damon

Matt Damon is an American actor nominated for an Academy Award for his roles in Will Hunting, Unconquered and The Martian. But the cherished statuette Damon brought scriptwork: in 1998, he received an award for the original screenplay for the first of these films.

Matt is not used to acting simultaneously in 5 projects, but there is in this minus - there is no time to replenish the filmography with a paragraph in which his last name will be listed in the graph "director". Now Damon learns every spare minute the skill of staging and is glad that the teachers are mostly geniuses.

Matthew Page Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Father Kent Damon was involved in public taxes, and her mother, Nancy Karlsson-Page, taught in junior high at Leslie College's private school. Matthew has an older brother, Kyle, who later became a famous sculptor.

The actor spent the first years of his life in a respectable area of Boston. But when he wasn't 3 years old, his parents divorced. Matthew and Kyle and their mother returned to Cambridge and began living in an apartment building. In 1978, Matt met Ben Affleck. The children become the best friends of childhood, and later will perform together on the same stage.

After graduating from comprehensive school, Damon enrolls at Harvard University, where he specializes in English and literature. He also attends a writer's course. But after 3 years of study at Harvard, the young man decides to try himself in the acting field. When he announces his wish to his mother, she does not support his idea and refuses to finance a trip to Hollywood, but does not mind if he makes this trip at his own expense.

The actor's creative biography begins without star rysing. Having collected $200, the guy goes to the "dream factory" where after a while gets a cameo role in the melodrama "Mystic Pizza". The second was also tiny - a sports commentator in the picture "The Field of His Dreams." Slightly disappointed, Damon returns home, graduates from university and makes a second attempt to become a movie star.

Matt Damon received his first major roles in the films "School Ties", "Geronimo: American Legend" and "Courage in Combat". All these pictures combine a deep understanding of the psychology of the characters and immersion in the atmosphere of the film. However, they did not bring much fame to the actor, and he decides to take a desperate step - joins forces with his friend Ben Affleck.

The guys together finish matt's student script "Smart Will Hunting" and create their own project. The script liked many studios, but they refused the authors, as Matt and Ben set the main condition - to play the main roles in the film. Only Miramax Films decided to take a chance and signed a contract with aspiring artists.

Released in 1997, the film "Smart Will Hunting" made a splash. Invested in the shooting $10 million paid off multiple times - the picture has collected more than $225 million. The awards also fell like a horn of abundance. 9 Oscar nominations - and 2 wins. Ben and Matt became the owners of the coveted statuette as the best screenwriters. In addition, the duo won a Golden Globe, a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and a national board of film critics.

After such a resounding success Damon starred in the legal film "The Benefactor" and the crime drama "Schuler". A supporting role in Steven Spielberg's cult film "Saving Private Ryan" brings the actor a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award. Damon played Private James Ryan, whose name is named after the painting.

A year later, Matt appears in Anthony Minghella's psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley. The full title of the film, shown in the credits, has 15 epithets in the direction of Mr. Ripley: the hero is also called longing, musical and persecuted. The film is based on the book by Patricia Highsmith, the first in a series of novels about the con man Tom Ripley. The screen softened the novel's brutal moments, making the hero's crimes less cold-blooded. The image of the young fraudster embodied Matt Damon. Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow also starred.

The choice to lead the roles of Damon and Lowe is not only due to their acting talents. Mr. Ripley pretends to be his friend Dickie, played by Lowe, so the actors had to have some outward resemblance to make such a plot move authentic. Both have blond hair and the right facial features. Matt and Jude also have the same height - 178 cm.

Brilliant play in the thriller "The Talented Mr. Ripley" brings the actor at once 5 nominations in various American film awards, including the Golden Globes and MTV Movie Awards. After that, Matt Damon will have a number of very successful roles.

In 1999, he plays the fallen angel Loki in the film Dogma. Damon's partner in the film is Ben Affleck. The screenplay was directed and written by Kevin Smith, who included Dogma in the single fictional world of his films.

The picture is characterized by a scandalous plot: the church is rebranding, the prophets are drug addicts, fallen angels try to outwit the heavenly rules, and the characters constantly ask questions about race, gender and orientation of the characters of sacred texts. However, the film was shown in Cannes and did not cause criticism or mass protests.

Damon then stars as golfer Rannulf June in "The Legend of Bager Vance" and one of the Siamese twins in "Stuck in You," in the crime comedy Ocean's Eleven and the sequel to Ocean's Twelve, starring Linus Caldwell. In the film "Jerry" in his own script plays one of the two main roles.

Another acting breakthrough for Matt Damon is participation in the filming of the film "The Bourne Identity" about a lost memory of a former CIA officer and assassin. The film was released in 2002, had a huge commercial success and received excellent reviews from film critics. Later, Matt will be involved in the sequels to this film, Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.

In 2006, the actor appears in the crime thriller "The Departed." The success of the project was largely ensured by the caste. Externally, Matt Damon looks like another participant - Mark Wahlberg. The similarity is so strong that colleagues often top lists and tops of similar stars. Usually the filmmakers try not to take into work on the picture of similar performers, so as not to make the viewer confused. But Martin Scorsese, the director of "The Departed," was not afraid to take both actors to key roles.

Matt Damon appeared as a pupil of crime boss Colin Sullivan, who gets a job in the police to spy on the mafia. The mirror role is played by Leonardo DiCaprio: he gets the role of a graduate of the police academy Billy Costigan, who is introduced to the mafia to collect information for the police. The bright role of a mafia boss is played by Jack Nicholson.

The film won four Oscars - for best film, editing, directing and adapted screenplay, as the "The Departed" plot is based on the Hong Kong action film "Double Rocking".

Also worth noting is the adventure fairytale fantasy thriller "Brothers Grimm", in which Matt Damon and Heath Ledger play famous brothers-storytellers, black comedy "Informant", as well as the biographical drama "Unconquered", the performance of the role of Francois Pienaar in which brought the actor nominations for the Oscar, Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild Award.

In 2010, Matt starred with the Coen brothers in one of the most lucrative westerns, Iron Grip: with a modest budget of $38 million, viewers reimbursed more than $250 million in expenses. The actor was reincarnated as a Texas Ranger, busy looking for a dangerous killer. Josh Brolin starred in this role. Damon believes that even in the saddest picture there is a place for a joke, but the film does not correspond to this belief. Fortunately, life did not throw up those tests that are described in the script, and Matt would not want to face them and actually find out what kind of acumen he has.

The actor also remembered a young colleague Hailee Steinfield, who was only 14 at the time. Cohen stalked the teenager as an equal to himself, and the girl exactly performed the director's commands. Damon thought that he was already an experienced actress, and it turned out that for Hayley the role of a girl admonition for her father - the first serious work.

In 2015, Matt Damon's considerable work was played as Mark Woutney in the film adaptation of Andy Weir's famous sci-fi novel The Martian. Matt Damon won the Empire Awards and a Golden Globe for his incarnation as an astronaut living alone on Mars, and was nominated for an Academy Award.

In 2016, the actor returned to the famous role of Bourne and appeared on screens in the spy thriller "Jason Bourne". He is also a member of the film's writers. The film is set 10 years after the events of the previous part. Former agent Bourne defeated amnesia and earns fights without rules. But new details of past work, his own recruitment and the life of his father Jason force the hero to return to investigations and opposition to the secret services. As the best thriller "Jason Bourne" was awarded the "Empire".

For "Bourne Ultimatum" Matt received a fee of $26 million, and then flatly refused to continue to develop this topic. And when nine years later succumbed to the persuasion of producers, in Hollywood there was a new joke, say, Damon gets $1 million for the phrase. There were people who calculated that in the new project silent, as it should be special agent, Bourne in an hour and a half utters not many more than 25 lines.

The actor shuddered to recall the torments of training and special diets he went through to gain physical fitness. Lessons of boxing gave the coach, preparing for the ring Muhammad Ali, and on high-altitude runs helped his wife. The family always accompanies Damon on set, if the journey does not distract children from school.

In the drama "Manchester by the Sea", included in the list of the best film projects of the year, Matt could not play, but acted as a producer. In front of the camera, he was replaced by Ben Affleck's brother, Casey. Once again, a high-profile success: Casey won an Oscar, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe, and Damon is nominated for one of the winners.

In early 2017, the world premiere of the adventure fantasy "The Great Wall" took place. The film was directed by Chang Yihow, a dream to work with which Matt cherished in his youth and 25 years later got a chance.

Damon appeared in the film as the mercenary archer Willem. The Chinese-American picture tells how European adventurers try to get the secret of black gunpowder, and instead face creepy monsters and realize that the Great Wall of China was erected to protect against the undead, not from people from other countries.

The crime drama "Suburbicon" starring David In the title film was directed by George Clooney. "The handsome guy from the series," according to Matt, is a prime example of how stereotypes break down. "Clooney did not allow himself to accept and close in a narrow framework. Worked on himself. And now everyone knows: he is an amazing director, screenwriter, producer, not just an actor."

The film is set in the 1950s. In the beginning, the city of Suburbicon looks like the embodiment of paradise and the American dream: neat houses, polite neighbors and happy families. The tone of the narrative changes dramatically when the robbers kill Rose Lodge, the wife of Damon's hero. Gardner Lodge begins to react strangely to subsequent events, and under the attractive facade of city life are found intrigues, blackmail and dirty secrets.

At the end of December 2017, a film about participants in the experiment to reduce their bodies was released. The cast of the sci-fi comedy "Shorter" was composed by Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis, Christoph Waltz and Neil Patrick Harris.

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Damon's cameo in the crime film Ocean's Eight Girlfriends was cut out. So the public punished the actor for his words in support of Harvey Weinstein, who was accused of harassment. Matt said there was a difference between harassment and innocent touching, and he was personally willing to continue working with such people.

The character of the actor was to join a number of characters linking the new film with previous pictures about Ocean's friends. Some fans rejoiced at the appearance of a large number of new and independent female characters, which will complement the project and make it more diverse. Others defended the male composition of the criminal group and believed that the heroines are introduced only for the sake of social demands, and not for the sake of the plot and renewal of the franchise.

Matt had to apologise for his words, but a petition calling for Damon's removal from Ocean's "8 Girlfriends" was on the internet. The film was edited. However, director Gary Ross assured that it was not the position of the actor, but the fact that the hero did not fit into the plot, and Matt - not the only one whose footage was removed.

The actor managed to work with Steven Sodeberg, who came up with modern stories about 11, 12 and 13 friends of Ocean. Damon got a supporting role in the thriller "Out of It": his character helps the main character played by Claire Foy to identify vulnerabilities to prevent the penetration of the persecuted fan.

To recognize Matt in the comedy action movie "Deadpool 2" is almost impossible, besides in the credits the name of the movie star is not specified, and there is Dickie Greenleaf. That's the name of Jude Law's character in "The Talented Mr. Ripley." On the screen Damon appeared in the complex makeup of a resident of the rural hinterland, with long hair and "beer belly."

In high school and at university, Matt met Skylar Satenstein, who became a prototype character of Skylar in the film "Smart Will Hunting". During 1997, he had relationships with several famous women, such as actresses Minnie Driver and Claire Danes, his partner in the film The Benefactor.

At a New Year's party on December 31, 1997, Damon met and began dating the famous actress Winona Ryder, but in the spring of 2000 they ended their relationship. For 2 years, Matt had an affair with Billy Bob Thornton's personal assistant and Ben Affleck's Personal Assistant, Odessa Whitmire. They separated in the fall of 2003.

In 2003 in Miami, the actor met the Argentine Luciana Barroso, who at that time worked in a local club behind the bar. The couple formally married in December 2005, and in the summer they had a daughter, Isabella. Then, at the age of two, Matt Damon became a father twice more - his wife gave daughters Gia and Stella. In total, the family has four children - Matt also brings up the eldest daughter Luciana Alexia.

Damon does not share details of his personal life with the general public. Photos with the actor post several pages on Instagram. Accounts have thousands of subscribers, but none of them verified. Maybe Matt's ignoring social media.

In July 2019, the premiere of the sports drama "The Daring Challenge" ("Ford vs. Ferrari"), in which Matt, along with John Bernthal and Christian Bale, the main role. The actor plays an American racing driver and designer of racing cars, which competed with the Italian car industry.

According to press reports, Damon claims to be the billionaire Mark Rich, the founder of Glencore, famous as one of the luckiest black gold merchants. The drama "King of Oil" will tell about the history of his ascent to the business Olympus and the collapse, which happened after the authorities brought charges of tax evasion.

Old friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon produce the TV series "City on the Hill", dedicated to the criminal world of Boston of the mid-90s and based on real events. Another project of creative tandem, confirmed by the facts , is a drama about the rigging of the results of the prize draws at McDonald's. Affleck is the director of the film, Damon plays the main role of a conman who invented a deceptive scheme.

1997 - "Smart Will Hunting"

1998 - "Saving Private Ryan"

2001 - Ocean's 11 Friends

2002 - "The Bourne Identity"

2005 - The Brothers Grimm

2006 - "The Departed"

2009 - "The Informant"

2010 - "Don't Take Alive"

2012 - "The Promised Country"

2013 - "Behind the Candelabras"

2014 - Interstellar

2015 - "The Martian"

2017 - "Shorter"

2019 - Ford vs Ferrari

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Matt Damon Net Worth 2021

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Matt Damon Net Worth 2019

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Matt Damon Net Worth 2018

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Matt Damon Net Worth 2017

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Matt Damon Net Worth 2016

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