Matt Damon Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Matt Damon
Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Here you can learn about Matt Damon’s career and private life facts, read the latest news, find all the awards he has won and view photos and videos.

PERSONAL DATA OF MATT DAMON

Age: 50 years
Height: 178 cm
Born in: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Born on: 08/10/1970

BIOGRAPHY OF MATT DAMON

Matthew Paige Damon he is lucky enough to be born into a very wealthy family, which allows him to study at none other than Harvard, a prestigious New England university that the boy will leave after three years to devote himself to cinema.

The son of a banker and a teacher of education, Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachussets, on October 8, 1970. His parents moved to Newton for some time, then divorced and the little boy. Matt returns to Cambridge with his mother and brothers.

At the age of ten the actor knows Ben Affleck, who lives not far from him. As we know, the screenplay of Will Hunting – Rebel Genius, which will win the Oscar. In the film, directed by Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon is the protagonist together with Robin Williams, while ad Affleck goes a character of lesser weight.

The debut of Matt in front of the camera dates back to before Will Hunting, when Donald Petrie calls him to act in Mystic Pizza. His first significant role, however, is in the film with Denzel Washington is Meg Ryan The courage of the truth, where he lost 20 kilos to play a Gulf War veteran. Her performance is appreciated throughout Hollywood and her career begins to take off: Francis Ford Coppola offers him the part of the protagonist in it The rain man , while Steven Spielberg calls him in the team of Save Private Ryan, making him share the scene with a sacred monster like Tom Hanks.

Of note, in the last remnants of the twentieth century, too Player is Mr. Ripley’s talent, in which Damon gives us an unusual and disturbing villain.

The new millennium offers above all a Matt Damon the opportunity to tie his name to a profitable franchise, which began in 2001 with Ocean’s Eleven and continued with Ocean’s Twelve is Ocean’s Thirteen. Driven by Steven Soderbergh, Damon form a great team with George Clooney is Brad Pitt (and not just them) and the group became famous for mutual jokes and jokes.

Another series that takes the actor very high in the Olympus of Hollywood stars is that of Jason Bourne. The first movie in which Damon impersonates the character born from the fantasy of Robert Ludlum is The Bourne Identity. We are in 2002 and the two sequels – The Bourne Supremacy is The Bourne Ultimatum – arrive in 2004 and 2007.

The activity of Matt in the early 2000s, however, it did not end with the two sagas. With Clooney Damon also works in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (of which George is director) and Syriana, while with Soderbergh will make The Informant, a very peculiar film in which he will be an informant biochemist for the FBI.

In this time Damon does not miss a beat, and other great masters of American cinema want it in their films: Martin Scorsese alongside it Di Caprio in The Departed, Robert De Niro chooses him as the main interpreter of his second film as director (The Good Shepherd) is Clint Eastwood offers him the role of rugby player François Pienaar in Invictus.

In the following decade Matt Damon ventures into the western with The grit and back to work with his favorite directors: Soderbergh, Paul Greengrass is Terry Gilliam, that after The Brothers Grimm and the charming witch proposes to him The Zero Theorem. What if George Clooney includes him in the cast of Monuments Men, it is to underline the actor’s predilection for science fiction, a genre he frequents thanks to Elysium, Interstellar is Survivor – The Martian, which is worth, the candidacy forOscar for best leading actor.

An Academy Award nomination Damon also got it for Invictus, while for Will Hunting was nominated for both screenwriter and lead actor.

Married since 2005 with Argentina Luciana Bozàn Barroso, with whom he had 3 daughters, Matt has been romantically linked to Minnie Driver it’s at Wynona Ryder. We will see it soon in Bourne 5 and in The Great Wall. Then will come the Suburbicon of George Clooney and the Downsizing of Alexander Payne.