Ben Affleck Biography

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by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, involving an engineer, who, after working two years on a secret project, had those two years erased from his memory. Later on, in 2004, Ben was known for his action in "Jersey Girl" and a comedy film directed by Mike Mitchell, "Surviving Christmas." More came in 2006 as he was spotted taking parts in titles like "Man About Town", "Clerks II", "Hollywoodland", and "Smokin' Aces", which placed him alongside other celebrated names such as Andy Garcia, Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, and Alicia Keys.

Not resting on his acting laurels, Ben boldly took a foray in film directing afterwards, marking his debut with "Gone Baby Gone" (2007), a mystery drama based on the Dennis Lehane novel of that he also penned and produced. Much to his delight, the movie received mostly positive reviews with Rotten Tomatoes reporting a score of 93 percent "fresh", subsequently opening another promising path for him to undergo in Hollywood film industry. Still, he went back to stand in front of the camera to film the star-studded "He's Just Not That Into You" (2008) followed by another on-screen collaboration with Matt in an untitled flick slated for a 2009 release. ...

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Here he would play Michael Banks while Matt portrays J. Gordon Cooney, two lawyers at a Philadelphia firm who fight a 15-year battle to free an innocent man on death row.

Acting aside, Ben also is famous for his much-publicized love life. He dated Gwyneth Paltrow since 1998 and broke up with her in January 1999. After that he dated actress singer Jennifer Lopez, whom he engaged to in November 2002 but then split in January 2004. Ben then dated Jennifer Garner, his co-star in "Daredevil," and married her on June 29, 2005 at the Parot Cay resort in the Turks and Caicos Islands, the British colony southeast of the Bahamas. The couple happily welcomed their first child, a daughter named Violet Anne Affleck, on December 1st the same year.

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