Jennifer Garner

In 2000, Garner got married to Scott Foley, whom she met on the set of ‘Felicity’. The couple got divorced in three years on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. Just a year after her divorce, she started dating Ben Affleck.

Garner and Affleck got married in 2005 a private ceremony in the Caribbean. The couple has three children together: Violet Anne Affleck, Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck and Samuel Garner Affleck.

In 2015, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck announced their intention to divorce. In 2017, they filed legal documents to seek joint physical and legal custody of their children.

Jennifer Garner was born in Houston, Texas, to Patricia Ann and William John ‘Bill’ Garner. Her father was a chemical engineer and mother was an English teacher. She was brought up in West Virginia.

Garner started taking ballet lessons from the age of 3 and danced until her youth but did not want to become a dancer. She was raised in a conservative environment which required her to visit church every Sunday.

She attended the George Washington High School in Charleston and later went to the Denison University to study Drama. Initially she did not want to be an actor and wanted to be a doctor or librarian instead.

Since she involved herself with the study of drama, Garner became more curious about acting and curiosity landed her roles in Atlanta productions of two Shakespeare plays, ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ in 1994.

In 1995, she became an understudy in the play ‘A Month in the Country’ for Roundabout Theatre Company. She soon landed a role in made-for-television movie ‘Zoya’ and briefly appeared in ‘Spin City’ and ‘Law & Order’.

Since Garner was now being noticed in the industry, she got her first big screen appearance in the movie, ‘Dude, Where’s My Car?’ in 2000 and the following year played a supporting character in ‘Pearl Harbor’.

In 2001, J. J. Abrams approached Garner for the role of ‘Sydney Bristow’ in his new spy drama ‘Alias’. She was reluctant in the beginning as the role demanded her to be physically strong but she bagged the role.

She did a cameo in Steven Spielberg’s movie ‘Catch Me if You Can’ along with Leonardo Di Caprio and Tom Hanks. It was on the special request of Spielberg that Garner accepted the small but significant role in the movie.

The most prominent work of Garner’s career is ‘Alias’ which ran from 2001-2006. She played the role of ‘Sydney Bristow’ and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for ‘Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series’.