Matt Damon American Actor and Film Producer
Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second son of Kent Telfer Damon (1942–2017), a stockbroker, and Nancy Carlson-Paige (b. 1946), an early childhood education professor at Lesley University, his father was of English and Scottish descent, while his mother was of Finnish and Swedish descent; His family surname was changed from Pajari to Paige.
Matthew Page Damon is an American actor, film producer, and screenwriter. In 2007 he was ranked among Forbes’ most bankable stars, and in 2010 he was one of the highest-paid actors of all time. He has received numerous awards and nominations, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for three British Academy Film Awards and seven Primetime Emmy Awards.
Damon made his acting debut in the film Mystic Pizza (1988), before rising to fame in 1997 when he and Ben Affleck wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting, which won him an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay. He established himself as a leading man by starring as Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Jason Bourne in the Bourne franchise (2002–2007; 2016), and Linus Caldwell in the Ocean’s Trilogy (2001–2007).
He received an Academy Award nomination and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for playing an astronaut stranded on Mars in The Martian (2015). (2009), Invictus (2009), True Grit (2010), Contagion (2011), Ford v Ferrari (2019), Stillwater (2021), Air (2023), and Oppenheimer (2023), the last of which is his highest – Grossing has a specialty.
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