Matt Damon

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Matthew "Matt" Paige Damon (* 8. October 1970 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) is an American actor and one with the Oscar and the Golden Globe excellent screenwriter . He became known for the films Good Will Hunting and Saving Private Ryan .

Childhood and youth

Matt Damon was born in 1970 to Kent Telfer Damon and his wife Nancy Carlsson Paige. He grew up in wealthy circumstances in Newton and Cambridge . His father was a stockbroker and his mother a professor of education at Lesley University in Boston . Damon has a brother named Kyle. His family has ancestors from England , Scotland , Sweden and Finland . Damon is a distant cousin of actors Casey and Ben Affleck . After his parents divorced, he moved to Cambridge with his brother and mother at the age of two. Damon lived there near Ben Affleck, who is one of his closest friends to this day and participated in many of his works. The American historian Howard Zinn , whose biography film You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train and an audio book for the history textbook A People's History of the United States Damon arranged, also lived in the immediate vicinity.

Damon attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School , where he played repeatedly in various theater groups, before graduating in 1988. From 1988 to 1992 Damon attended Harvard University , where he studied English . However, he never graduated from college. Instead, he continued to devote himself to acting, such as the television movie Rising Son and the drama The Outsider . While at Harvard, Damon did not take part in the drama company, but appeared in the play A ... My Name is Alice in one of three male roles normally played by women. When the feature film Geronimo - Eine Legende announced itself as a great success, Damon dropped out of his studies and moved to Los Angeles to further distinguish himself as an actor.

Acting career

Brad Pitt , George Clooney , Matt Damon, Andy García and Julia Roberts , stars of Ocean's Eleven , with director Steven Soderbergh , December 2001

In Los Angeles he soon played in Geronimo alongside greats like Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall . His breakthrough came with the film Courage to Truth with Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan , for which he lost 20 kilograms.

His childhood friend Ben Affleck had also made the leap to Hollywood . Together they wrote the screenplay for Good Will Hunting and for a long time tried unsuccessfully to sell it to a studio. They turned down some lucrative offers for this, as the potential buyers were not interested in starring both Damon and Affleck. It was only after Damon's leading role in Francis Ford Coppola's The Rainmaker that a buyer for the script was found in Miramax , and the studio secured the rights in 1997. In the film by Gus Van Sant , Robin Williams played one of the leading roles alongside Affleck and Damon . The film was a great success and brought the two authors u. a. an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award . In addition, Damon received an Oscar nomination for best leading role. In 1998 he had another huge hit with Steven Spielberg's anti-war film Saving Private Ryan . In 1999 he was again in front of the camera for Dogma by Kevin Smith with Ben Affleck.

Other successes included the rogue comedy Ocean's Eleven in 2001 (sequels were Ocean's 12 in 2004 and Ocean's 13 in 2007 ) and the thriller The Bourne Identity with Franka Potente in 2002 (sequels were 2004 The Bourne Conspiracy , 2007 The Bourne Ultimatum and 2016 Jason Bourne ). Damon also starred in Martin Scorsese's 2006 thriller Departed alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson . The film won four Academy Awards in 2007, including a. for Best Picture of 2006. On July 25, 2007, Matt Damon was awarded the 2,343rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (at 6801 Hollywood Blvd.). Damon was named "Sexiest Man Alive 2007" on November 15, 2007 by People magazine . For the film Inside Job by Charles H. Ferguson , an Oscar-winning documentary about the financial crisis that started in 2007 , Damon took on the central narration role that leads through the entire film.

In 2011 he starred in the film The Plan . For the female lead of the ballerina Elise , his stepsister Sarah Bradford was originally in conversation. But this immediately declined when she found out that her role included a sex scene with Damon. Instead, she took on the role of Laura , Elise's friend, in The Plan .

"Feud" with Jimmy Kimmel

Matt Damon and presenter Jimmy Kimmel have had a joking "feud" that has been smoldering for years. It started when Kimmel Damon appeared on his late night show Jimmy Kimmel Live! tried to invite, which failed again and again. As a result, Kimmel regularly apologized as a running gag at the end of his show with Damon that he could unfortunately no longer perform because the airtime was unfortunately already over. In fact, Damon has made repeated appearances on the show since then with (mostly unsuccessful) attempts to finally appear as a guest on the show.

In 2013, Matt Damon hosted the show for an issue after he had previously "kidnapped" Kimmel. Damon brought Jimmy Kimmel, who was tied to an office chair with tape and his tie gagged, on stage and hosted the entire episode of the show, which he had renamed "Jimmy Kimmel Sucks!"

Nicole Kidman , Gary Oldman , Amy Adams , Reese Witherspoon , Demi Moore as well as Andy Garcia and Robin Williams appeared as guests on this show , who also participated in the joke and accused Kimmel of various (fictional) missteps. In addition, guest comedian Sarah Silverman , who shot the joke video "I'm fucking Matt Damon" with Matt Damon in 2008 while dating Jimmy Kimmel, allegedly talked about her relationship with Kimmel.

Matt Damon and his wife Luciana Barroso during the Venice International Film Festival , 2009

Private life

On December 9, 2005, he married Luciana Barroso, whom he met in 2003 while filming Inseparable . They have three daughters together. Barroso also brought a daughter into the marriage. He lives on Lafayette Street in New York.

Filmography (selection)

actor

Screenwriter

producer

Awards

literature

  • “My boss is the audience”. Hollywood star Matt Damon on filmmaking as magic, his buddies George, Brad and Ben, and why you should lie to friends offensively. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , August 11, 2013, p. 56. (Interview: Julia Schaaf)
  • Dirk Jasper : Matt Damon. The new superstar. Droemer-Knaur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-426-61111-2 .

Web links

Wikiquote: Matt Damon  - Quotes
Commons : Matt Damon  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Belinda Luscombe: Matt Damon Acts Out , Time . December 19, 1999. Retrieved April 5, 2009. 
  2. ↑ a b c d Ron Givens, Michele McPhee: Two Hollywood Prizefighters 'Hunting' for Stardom Pays Off for Matt Damon , New York Daily News . March 22, 1998. Retrieved September 27, 2015. 
  3. ↑ Ryan Ball: Matt Damon Animated for Arthur , Animation Magazine . Retrieved April 5, 2009. 
  4. ^ Genealogical Chart Knowlton Line of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon . New England Historic Genealogical Society. 2009. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 2, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.newenglandancestors.org
  5. ↑ Matt Damon . Rootsweb. Archived from the original on February 15, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 2, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
  6. ^ Matt Damon: A true Hollywood player , The Independent . October 4, 2006. Retrieved April 5, 2009. 
  7. ^ David Horowitz: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And The American Left . Regnery Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-89526-076-X , p. 102 (accessed April 5, 2009).
  8. ↑ Kevin Crust: 'Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train,' 'Hair Show,' 'The Hillside Strangler,' 'The Dust Factory' and 'Stephen King's Riding the Bullet' , Los Angeles Times . October 15, 2004. Retrieved April 5, 2009. 
  9. ^ Charles McGrath: 6 Degrees of Harvard , The New York Times . October 1, 2006. Retrieved April 5, 2009. 
  10. ^ Dominic Wills: Matt Damon Biography . Tiscali, approx. Archived from the original on August 26, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 5, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tiscali.co.uk
  11. ↑ FocusOnline: Walk of Fame: A Star for Matt Damon
  12. ↑ People Magazine: Sexiest Man Alive 2007
  13. ↑ Matt Damon: Almost sex scene with sister . In: Kino.de , October 21, 2010. Retrieved January 14, 2011. 
  14. ↑ a b Kimberly Nordyke: Matt Damon Takes Over 'Jimmy Kimmel Sucks' In: The Hollywood Reporter , January 24, 2013
  15. ↑ Ross Luippold: Jimmy Kimmel Is A Huge Jerk To Matt Damon Once Again In: The Huffington Post , February 7, 2014.
  16. ↑ Jürgen Schmieder: Who sleeps with whom here? , In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 17, 2010
  17. ↑ Die Zeit No. 30, July 18, 2013, p. 39.
personal data
SURNAME Damon, Matt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Damon, Matthew Paige (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge , Massachusetts , United States