Matt Damon

08 October, 1970

| 1.78 m

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Biography

Matt Damon

Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and Scottish descent, and his mother is of Finnish and Swedish ancestry. 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 attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and he performed in a number of theater productions during his time there. He attended Harvard University as an English major. While in Harvard, he kept on skipping classes to pursue acting projects, which included the TNT original film, Czcij ojca swego (1990), and prep-school drama, Więzy przyjaźni (1992). It was until his film, Geronimo: Amerykańska legenda (1993), was expected to be a big success that he decided to drop out of university completely. Arriving in Hollywood, Matt managed to get his first break with a part in the romantic comedy, Mystic Pizza (1988). However, the film did not do too well and his film career failed to take off. Not letting failure discourage him from acting, he went for another audition, and managed to get a starring role in Więzy przyjaźni (1992). Up next for Matt was a role as a soldier who had problems with drug-addiction in the movie, Szalona odwaga (1996). Matt had, in fact, lost forty pounds for his role which resulted in health problems.The following year, he garnered accolades for Buntownik z wyboru (1997), a screenplay he had originally written for an English class at Harvard University. Buntownik z wyboru (1997) was nominated for 9...

Movies

A five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to become a human after falling in love with him.

A young, reformed gambler must return to playing high stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks, while balancing his relationship with his girlfriend and his commitments to law school.

Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.

In ancient China, a group of European mercenaries encounters a secret army that maintains and defends the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.

Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region.

An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners.

A politically charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved in and affected by it.

A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.

Will and Jake Grimm are traveling con-artists who encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires true courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms.

The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.

An American factory worker, a French journalist and a London school boy set out on a spiritual journey after death touches their lives in different ways.

A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.

An underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent insurance company.

Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.

The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre.

A young man learns that he has to find a hidden Earth ship before an enemy alien species does in order to secure the survival of humanity.

A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddie.

A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.

Conjoined twins from Martha's Vineyard move to Los Angeles so that one of them can pursue an acting career.

As a 1950s suburban community self-destructs, a home invasion has sinister consequences for one seemingly normal family.