Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Anne Garner , real name Jennifer Anne Affleck (born April 17, 1972 in Houston , Texas ), is an American actress , film producer and film director . Among other things, she is a Golden Globe Prize winner.
life and career
Jennifer Garner grew up as the second of three sisters in Charleston, West Virginia . With a lot of enthusiasm for stage work, she took ballet lessons for years . As she herself admitted, she was not very talented for it.
After graduating from high school , she attended Denison University in Ohio from 1990 , initially majoring in chemistry . Later she switched to the theater , because the stage was alluring again. After graduating from university in 1994, she moved to New York , where she worked as a theater assistant. A little later she got her first small roles on television, for example in the series Significant Others .
Eventually Garner moved to Los Angeles , where she made a living as a table attendant in a restaurant and gradually got other television roles. In 2000 she married fellow actor and film producer Scott Foley , and in 2003 she divorced him. After that, she had a brief relationship with fellow actor Michael Vartan .
2001 Garner got her first leading role in the hit action series Alias - The Agent of JJ Abrams . For the role of Sydney Bristow , she received a Golden Globe in the category Best Actress in a Drama Series . Her first attempt to make a career in leading roles on the screen was quite successful in 2004 with the comedy 30 Overnight . With Elektra , she took on a supporting role from the comic book version Daredevil again in 2004 as the title character . The flick was moderately successful in US cinemas. In 2013 she played a supporting role alongside Matthew McConaughey in Jean-Marc Vallée's film Dallas Buyers Club .
From 2004 Garner was in a relationship with her fellow actor Ben Affleck . They were married in the Caribbean on June 29, 2005 , and their first daughter was born on December 1, 2005. The second daughter was born on January 6, 2009, and their first son followed on February 27, 2012. Garner has taken her husband's last name and is now called Jennifer Affleck. But she kept the name Garner as a stage name.
On June 30, 2015, the day after their tenth wedding anniversary, Garner and Affleck announced that they were divorcing.
On August 20, 2018, she was honored with the 2,641st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .
Filmography (selection)
- 1995: Zoya
- 1996: Law & Order (TV series, episode 6x23 Aftershock )
- 1996: Chaos City (TV series, episode 1x10 The Competition )
- 1996: The glow of violence (Harvest of Fire)
- 1996: Dead Man's Walk ( Dead Man's Walk , TV series)
- 1997: Rose Hill
- 1997: Harry beside himself (Deconstructing Harry)
- 1997: Washington Square
- 1997: Mr. Magoo
- 1997: The Player (TV movie)
- 1997: In Harm's Way
- 1998: 1999
- 1998: Significant Others (TV series, six episodes)
- 1998–2001: Felicity (TV series)
- 1999: Pretender (TV series, episode 3x13 Pool )
- 1999–2000: New York Life - Finally in Life! ( Time of Your Life , TV series, 19 episodes)
- 1999: Aftershock - The Great Quake (Aftershock: Earthquake in New York)
- 2000: Dude, where is my car? (Dude, Where's My Car?)
- 2001: Pearl Harbor
- 2001: Stealing Time
- 2001–2006: Alias - Die Agentin (TV series, 105 episodes)
- 2002: Catch Me If You Can
- 2003: Daredevil
- 2004: 30 overnight (13 going on 30)
- 2004: The Animated Alias: Tribunal (voice)
- 2005: Elektra
- 2006: Wilbur and Charlotte ( Charlotte's Web , voice)
- 2006: Love and Let (Catch and Release)
- 2007: Operation: Kingdom (The Kingdom)
- 2007: Juno
- 2009: The Womanizer - The Night of Ex-Girlfriends (Ghosts of Girlfriends Past)
- 2009: Lies make you inventive (The Invention of Lying)
- 2010: Valentine's Day (Valentine's Day)
- 2011: Arthur
- 2011: Everything in butter
- 2012: Serena (short film)
- 2012: The Odd Life of Timothy Green
- 2013: Dallas Buyers Club
- 2014: Draft Day
- 2014: #Zeitgeist (Men, Women & Children)
- 2014: The Coopers - Worse is always possible (Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day)
- 2015: Mr. Collins' second spring (Danny Collins)
- 2016: Himmelskind (Miracles from Heaven)
- 2016: Fully hungover (Nine Lives)
- 2016: Wakefield - Your Life Without You (Wakefield)
- 2017: A Happening of Monumental Proportions
- 2017: The Tribes of Palos Verdes
- 2018: Love, Simon
- 2018: Peppermint: Angel of Vengeance (Peppermint)
- 2018: Camping (TV series, 8 episodes)
- 2018: Llama Llama (TV series, 2 episodes, voice)
- 2019: Welcome to Wunder Park ( Wonder Park , voice)
Awards (selection)
- 2001: Golden Globe Award : Best Actress in a Series - Drama for Alias - The Agent
- 2002: Saturn Award : Best Series Lead Actress for Alias - The Agent
- 2003: MTV Movie Award for Best Newcomer
Nominations
- 2002, 2003, 2004: Saturn Award: Best Actress in a Series for Alias - The Agent
- 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005: Emmy : Best Series Lead Actress - Drama for Alias - The Agent
- 2003, 2004, 2005: Golden Globe Award: Best Actress in a Series - Drama for Alias - The Agent
- 2003, 2004, 2005: Satellite Awards : Best Series Lead Actress - Drama for Alias - The Agent
- 2019: Golden Raspberry : Worst Actress for Peppermint: Angel of Vengeance
Web links
- Jennifer Garner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jennifer Garner at AllMovie (English)
- Jennifer Garner at Moviepilot
- Jennifer Garner in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner Announce Divorce After 10 Years of Marriage
- ↑ Jennifer Garner | Hollywood Walk of Fame. Retrieved August 21, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ MTV Movie Award 2003 (accessed July 2, 2010)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Garner, Jennifer |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Garner, Jennifer Anne; Affleck, Jennifer Anne (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actress, film producer and film director |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Houston , Texas, United States |