Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt
(born August 15, 1972
[1]
) is an
American
actor, movie director, producer and screenwriter. He became well known in the late 1990s, after acting in the movie
Good Will Hunting
. He has since become a
Hollywood
star having acted in several movies.
Affleck began playing the role of
Batman
in the
DC Extended Universe
beginning with the 2016 movie
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
.
[2]
Affleck was born in
Berkeley, California
and grew up in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
. His mother, Christine Anne "Chris" Affleck (nee Boldt), was a school district employee and teacher. His father, Timothy Byers Affleck, has been a drug counselor, social worker, janitor, auto mechanic, bartender, writer, director, and actor with the Theater Company of Boston.
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
After learning that he had
slave
-owning ancestors from
Savannah, Georgia
, he tried to hide it but got caught and apologized.
[7]
Affleck's mother was a
freedom rider
in the 1960s;
[8]
[9]
until her retirement, she was a public school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
[10]
His younger brother is actor
Casey Affleck
. He has English, Irish, Scottish, German, Swedish, Swiss, Northern Irish (Scots-Irish), Welsh and French ancestry.
[11]
[12]
The surname "Affleck" is of Scottish origin, and his middle name, "Geza", was the name of a family friend.
[8]
He was raised in a mostly
Episcopalian
family.
[13]
From 2005 to 2018, he was married to actress
Jennifer Garner
. In 2022, he married singer
Jennifer Lopez
. He has three children with Garner.
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