Matt Damon
08 October, 1970
| 1.78 m
Producer
Actor
Writer
Biography
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... show more
Movies
A chronicle of the tempestuous six-year romance between megastar singer Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson.
A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.
In 1959, a star quarterback from a working-class family is given an opportunity to attend an elite New England preparatory school, but he is conflicted about whether or not to tell his Evangelical classmates that he is Jewish.
A friendship between two young men is tested when they go for a hike in a desert and forget to bring any water or food with them.
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.
Two Texas cowboys head to Mexico in search of work, but soon find themselves in trouble with the law after one of them falls in love with a wealthy rancher's daughter.
Follows two robbers who must go on the run with the help of one of their therapists after a theft doesn't go as planned.
A man accidentally hits a homeless person with his car and then can't seem to get rid of him the rest of the night.