Matt Damon

He is a follower of the American baseball team ‘Boston Red Sox’, and is himself a poker player and participated in many poker competitions.

This actor founded the non-profit organization named ‘H2O African Foundation’ which was later merged with the ‘WaterPartners’ organization to form ‘Water.org’ foundation. He is associated with many other charitable organizations such as ‘Not On Our Watch Project’, ‘ONE Campaign’. He has also been an ambassador of the foundation ‘ONEXONE’.

He was born to Kent Tefler Damon and Nancy Carlson-Paige on 8th October, 1970, in Cambridge city of Massachusetts. He has an elder brother named Kyle Damon. When he was about two-years-old, his parents separated and Matt and his brother lived with their mother henceforth. Matt and actor Ben Affleck have been childhood mates.

He did his schooling from institutions such as ‘Cambridge Alternative School’ (now known as ‘Graham and Parks) and ‘Cambridge Rindge and Latin School’. He later enrolled at the ‘Harvard University’ but dropped out in order to chase his dream of becoming an actor.

Before launching into a lead role, Damon played many minor roles in plays such as ‘Burn This Winthrop House’ and ‘A… My Name is Alice’. In 1988, he acted in the film ‘Mystic Pizza’ thus began his acting career in films. However, he only had a single dialogue in the film.

During his time at the university, he acted in films such as ‘Rising Son’ and ‘School Ties’. He then left the university without completing his course to star in the movie ‘Geronimo: An American Legend’ in the year 1993.

His next project was in the year 1996, when he worked in the movie ‘Courage Under Fire’. His role was appreciated and gave an indication of his potential to the industry.

In 1997, he and Ben Affleck together wrote the screenplay for the film ‘Good Will Hunting’. This film was immensely successful and established Damon in the Hollywood industry. He also acted in the film and his performance as well as the screenplay received acclamation.

The same year he also acted in films ‘The Rainmaker’ and ‘Chasing Army’. The following year his films named ‘Saving Private Ryan’ and ‘Rounders’ were released.

In the movie ‘Good Will Hunting’ this skilled actor played the lead and even wrote the screenplay along with Ben Affleck. The screenplay was initially an assignment on which Matt had worked and later, this was modified into the screenplay of this movie. He and Ben Affleck shared the ‘Oscar’ for the ‘Best Original Screenplay’.

His another major achievement as an actor was his role as Jason Bourne in the Bourne trilogy.