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  • Category: Motion pictures
  • Unveiled: 25 Jul 2007
  • Star rank: 11
  • Address:
    6805 Hollywood Blvd
  • Position: 4 tiles from the curb, facing east
  • GPS location:
    34.101673, -118.340025

Matt Damon

Next star: James Mason
Previous star: Sammy Kaye

Biography

Matthew Paige “Matt” Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, screenwriter, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting (1997), from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck. The pair won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for their work and Damon received multiple Best Actor nominations, including the Academy Award, for his lead performance in the film.

Fact file

  • Born: Matthew Paige Damon October 8, 1970 (age 41) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
  • Alma mater: Harvard University (Dropped out)
  • Occupation: Actor, screenwriter, producer
  • Years active: 1988–present
  • Spouse: Luciana Barroso (m. 2005–present)
  • Children: 4
  • Awards: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay

Read more about Matt Damon at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database

In the news

Focus Features comes aboard Damon, Krasinski film (Reuters)
Yahoo Entertainment, 2012-02-02 02:01:14
Reuters - Focus Features is in final negotiations with Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon and John Krasinski to make "Promised Land," TheWrap has confirmed.

Focus Features comes aboard Damon, Krasinski film (omg!)
Yahoo Entertainment, 2012-02-02 01:31:42
omg! - LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 (TheWrap.com) - Focus Features is in final negotiations with Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon and John Krasinski to make "Promised Land," TheWrap has confirmed. If the deal goes through, Focus and Participant Media will produce the movie, which Van Sant will direct and Damon ...

ArtsBeat: Lineup Announced for Film Comment Selects Festival
NY Times Movies, 2012-01-31 22:24:02
Matt Damon and Anna Paquin in "Margaret," which will screen as part of Film Comment Selects.

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