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Matt Damon speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, Sept. 23, 2014.
Matt Damon, an actor with all-American looks and a winning smile, has had an eclectic career, coming into the spotlight with his childhood friend in a movie they wrote and starred in. Since then, he has taken on darker roles, played the charmer and acted in adventure movies.
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Actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck attend HBO Reveals Winner of "Project Greenlight" season 4 at BOULEVARD3 on Nov. 7, 2014, in Los Angeles
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Matt Damon watches Game 1 of the 2013 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals at Fenway Park on Oct. 23, 2013, in Boston.
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Chef Ming Tsai and actor Matt Damon attend Family Reach Foundation's Cooking Live! at Ritz Carlton Battery Park on Sept. 18, 2012, in New York.
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Matt Damon and wife Luciana arrive for the screening of "Contagion" during the 68th Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 3, 2011.
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Actors and friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck react to winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Good Will Hunting" at the 70th Academy Awards in Los Angeles March 23, 1998. The Massachusetts-born and Harvard-educated actor moved into the spotlight with this movie about a math genius, in which he and Affleck also starred.
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Damon displays the Male Star of Tomorrow award, presented to him during the 24th Annual ShoWest Awards ceremony, March 12, 1998, in Las Vegas. Damon won for his work in the movie "Good Will Hunting." His acting career began with bit parts in "Mystic Pizza" and "School Ties," and critics began to take notice after he played a small but critical role in 1996's "Courage Under Fire."
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Damon and "Good Will Hunting" costar Minnie Driver, who were dating at the time, share a moment before the film's Los Angeles premiere in 1997.
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Damon followed up "Hunting" with a lead role in "Rounders," which is about poker. Here, he competes in the 29th Annual World Series of Poker Texas Hold'em no limit event, May 11, 1998, at Binion's Horseshoe Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas. The event cost $10,000 to buy in, with the winner collecting more than $1 million.
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Damon began to take on serious roles and star in darker movies, such as "The Talented Mr. Ripley," in which he played the murderous title character. Here, the cast poses for photos during a news conference at the Berlin International Film Festival, Feb. 13, 2000. Damon is at right with Jude Law, left, and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Damon, right, and Ben Affleck, teamed up again as executive producers of "Project Greenlight." Here, they chat before speaking to Television Critics Association members during HBO's part of the TCA summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif., July 13, 2001. Project Greenlight is a filmmaking contest and documentary series chronicling the making of a feature film.
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Damon soon became one of Hollywood's "golden boys," turning up on the red carpet at premieres and award ceremonies. Here, then-girlfriend Wynona Ryder kisses Damon upon their arrival at the 57th Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., Jan 23, 2000.
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Damon also dated Odessa Whitmire, seen here with Damon in Taipei, Aug. 22, 2002. He was in Taiwan to promote his movie, "The Bourne Identity."
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Damon married Argentine-born Luciana Barroso in 2005. They have one child and are expecting another. Here, they wait for a Red Sox game to begin at Boston's Fenway Park, July 6, 2004.
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Damon poses for photographers during Deauville's American Film Festival to promote "The Bourne Identity" directed by Doug Liman, Sept. 6, 2002, in Deauville, western France.
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Damon also was promoting another movie during his stay in France, Here, he poses for photographers during a photo op at Deauville's American Film Festival Sept. 8, 2002 to promote his film, "Gerry."
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Damon often has escorted his mother, Nancy, to events in Hollywood and New York. Here, they attend the premiere of the IMAX film "Stomp: An Odysee" at New York's American Museum of Natural History, Oct. 17, 2002.
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Damon landed a part in George Clooney's 2001 remake of "Ocean's Eleven." Here he poses with the all-star cast, from left: Clooney, Brad Pitt, Damon, Elliott Gould, and Don Cheadle.
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In Berlin in November 2003, Damon poses during a photo opportunity for Universal Pictures' "Bourne" series, shot on locations in Germany, Russia and India.
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Damon, Eva Mendes and Greg Kinnear arrive at the special New York screening of "Stuck on You," held at New York's Clearview Chelsea West Theater, December 2003.
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Conjoined twins Bob Tenor (Damon, left) and Walt Tenor (Greg Kinnear) display their talents in the 2003 comedy "Stuck on You."
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Damon arrives at the premiere of the espionage thriller "The Bourne Supremacy," at the Cinerama Dome and Arclight Cinemas in Los Angeles, July 15, 2004.
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Damon as Jason Bourne, and Julia Stiles as Nicky, in "The Bourne Supremacy."
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Matt Damon and George Clooney in the political thriller "Syriana" (2005).
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Matt Damon and Heath Ledger played con men who would rid villages of supernatural spirits - until they confronted very real monsters in Terry Gilliam's comic fantasy, "The Brothers Grimm" (2005).
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Jack Nicholson and Matt Damon in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning "The Departed" (2006).
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Matt Damon, Tim Roth and Hansell Campos in Francis Ford Coppola's "Youth Without Youth" (2007).
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Jason Isaacs and Matt Damon in "Green Zone" (2009).
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Matt Damon starred as a whistleblower in the 2009 caper "The Informant!"
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Matt Damon received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination portraying Francois Pienaar, captain of the South African rugby team, in Clint Eastwood's "Invictus."
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Matt Damon in Clint Eastwood's tale of people seeking answers about an afterlife in "Hereafter" (2010).
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Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges star in the Coen Brothers' remake of "True Grit," based on the novel by Charles Portis.
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Matt Damon stars as the Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, a character played by Glen Campbell in the original 1969 film version of "True Grit."
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Matt Damon attends the premiere of "True Grit" at New York's Ziegfeld Theatre, Dec. 14, 2010.
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Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld and Jeff Bridges attend the premiere of "True Grit" at the Ziegfeld Theatre, Dec. 14, 2010, in New York.
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Actor Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso attend the premiere of "True Grit" at the Ziegfeld Theatre, Dec. 14, 2010, in New York.