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Image:Ben Affleck.jpg|thumb|225px|Ben Affleck

Benjamin Geza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) in
Berkeley, California|Berkeley, California, is an
United States|American actor. Mr. Affleck has
decided not to star in anymore action movies
because critics believe he's the worst actor on
the planet. Affleck can now be seen in cheezy
comedy movies trying to make you laugh...not!

==Acting==
Born in Berkeley, California|Berkeley, California,
he grew up in the Cambridge,
Massachusetts|Cambridge, Massachusetts area and
attended college in Los Angeles, California|Los
Angeles at Occidental College. For some reason, a
rumor has spread that Ben Affleck was raised
Catholic, but this is NOT true. He currently lives
in Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica,
California. He was a child actor, having a role on
the PBS kids' series The Voyage of the Mimi and
made-for-television movies when young.  He came to
national attention when he and good friend Matt
Damon (whom he had met while studying at Cambridge
Rindge and Latin|Cambridge Rindge and Latin
School) wrote the screenplay for Good Will Hunting
(1997 in film|1997), for which they won an Academy
Award for Academy Award for Writing Original
Screenplay|Best Writing, Screenplay Written
Directly for the Screen.

He is also known for his roles in many of Kevin
Smith's films - all of them, in fact, except for
Clerks (movie)|Clerks.

Along with Matt Damon and producer Chris Moore,
Affleck founded the production company LivePlanet,
through which the three friends created the
documentary series Project Greenlight.

Affleck's most recent films, including Gigli
(movie)|Gigli, Paycheck (short story)|Paycheck,
Jersey Girl (2004 movie)|Jersey Girl, and
Surviving Christmas have been critically panned
and massive box office bombs.

==Romance==
Affleck had a brief but high-profile romance with
actress Gwyneth Paltrow following her breakup with
Brad Pitt.  He began dating actress/singer
Jennifer Lopez, whom he met on the set of Gigli
(movie)|Gigli.  In 2002 it was announced that he
was engaged to Lopez, and the relationship between
the two received enormous attention by the
entertainment media.  Both subsequently lost fans
and credibility, probably due in part to the
saturation of Affleck/Lopez interviews and
projects, and especially after the notorious
failure of Gigli (movie)|Gigli, which in part was
due to the negative publicity which led to the
couple being dubbed "Bennifer". They broke up in
2004, with both blaming the media attention.   In
2005 he proposed to his  Daredevil
(movie)|Daredevil costar, Alias (television)|Alias
star Jennifer Garner after nine months of dating. 
In May of 2005 it was announced that Garner was
pregnant
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/0509ga
rner.html, and they were married on June 29, 2005.

==Poker playing==
Affleck is also an avid poker player, regularly
entering local events. He has been tutored by
poker professionals Amir Vahedi and Annie Duke. 
He won the California State Poker Championship on
June 20 2004, taking home the first prize of
$356,000, and qualifying him for the 2004 World
Poker Tour final tournament.

==Political activism==

In the final hectic weeks of Campaign 2000,
Affleck spent his time passionately campaigning
for the Democratic ticket, supporting Al Gore,
repeatedly delivering a get-out-the-vote plea:
"It's very important to vote. The president will
appoint three or four Supreme Court justices."

During the final week of the race, Affleck stumped
for Gore in California, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
During a stop in Pittsburgh, the star--along with
Helen Hunt, Martin Sheen, Rob Reiner and other
actors--spent an hour at a phone bank calling
registered Democrats. "People in my generation
have a low voter turnout. One of the reasons that
I'm here is to demonstrate that no matter who you
are going to vote for...I think it's important to
get involved and get out and vote," Affleck told
reporters. "But I'm going to tell people to vote
for Gore."

On October 28, 2000, Affleck flew with the First
Lady (Hillary Clinton) to Ithaca, New York, where
he introduced her at a Cornell University rally.
Affleck told the college crowd that Clinton had
been advocating for women and working families
since "Rick Lazio was running around the frat
house in his underwear." Lazio, then a Long Island
congressman, was Clinton's Republican opponent. 

On Monday, November 6, the final day of the
campaign, Affleck was one of several A-list
celebrities summoned to Miami Beach, Florida|Miami
Beach by Miramax Films boss Harvey Weinstein for a
late-night Gore rally, just hours before polls
opened nationwide. The Gore campaign's last event,
a final effort to energize South Beach voters,
didn't end until about 1 AM, but Affleck flew back
to New York that morning and made a surprise live
appearance on The Rosie O'Donnell Show. It was
10:15 when he made his final public pitch from a
Rockefeller Center studio, noting that he was "a
little bit tired...I've been out getting involved,
doing stuff and trying to get people to vote. And
that's why I came by here." Also, "Today is the
get-out-the-vote day and...I think this is the
time to get involved, especially the young folks
who are here ... I'm about to go vote," Affleck
then said, adding later, "I am personally gonna
vote for Al Gore."

As returns came in that night, Affleck told
Salon's Amy Reiter, "I'm nervous this evening, but
one of the things that's exciting to me is the
amount of people who voted. No matter who wins, I
think it's a healthy thing for our country that so
many voters have come out and participated in the
process. Either way, I think the most important
number will be the turnout." Amazingly, as The
Smoking Gun later discovered, Affleck himself had
never bothered to vote.

In the May 2001 issue of GQ, Affleck says, "My
fantasy is that someday I'm independently wealthy
enough that I'm not beholden to anybody, so I can
run for Congress on the grounds that everyday
people--be they singers or poets or bankers or
lawyers or teachers--should be in government."

In the March 2003 issue of Vanity Fair, Affleck
again floats the possibility of a future run for
Congress. "I think there's a real nobility to
public service," he told the magazine. "It would
be fun to run on a platform I really believed in,
without being beholden to the win-at-all-costs
mentality."

In 2004, Affleck actively campaigned for
Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. During
the first day of the Democratic Convention,
Affleck was featured on Larry King Live with
Tucker Carlson and Al Sharpton. Larry King asked
Affleck if he would consider running for office,
and Affleck admitted to contemplating the
proposition. Specific attention focused on whether
or not he would run for Kerry's open Senate seat
(as Affleck was from Massachusetts).  He noted
that the line between politics and entertainment
is becoming increasingly blurry, as Ronald Reagan,
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill O'Reilly
(commentator)|Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh all
came from the entertainment business, although all
were/are members of the Republican Party.

==Filmography==
*The Dark End of the Street (1981)
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie) (1992)
*School Ties (1992)
*Dazed and Confused (1993)
*Mallrats (1995)
*Glory Daze (1996)
*Going All the Way (1997)
*Chasing Amy (1997)
*Office Killer (1997) (scenes deleted)
*Good Will Hunting (1997) (also writer)
*Phantoms (1998)
*Armageddon (1998)
*Shakespeare in Love (1998)
*200 Cigarettes (1999)
*Forces of Nature (1999)
*Dogma (1999)
*Boiler Room (2000)
*Reindeer Games (2000)
*Bounce (2000)
*Pearl Harbor movie | Pearl Harbor (2001)
*Daddy and Them (2001) 
*Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
*Changing Lanes (2002)
*The Sum of All Fears (2002)
*The Third Wheel (2002) (also executive producer)
*Daredevil (movie)|Daredevil (2003)
*Gigli (2003)
*Paycheck (2003)
*Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party (2004) (documentary)
*Jersey Girl (2004 movie)|Jersey Girl (2004)
*Surviving Christmas (2004)
*Elektra (2005 movie)|Elektra (2005) (scenes
deleted)
*Man About Town (2005) (currently filming)
*Truth, Justice, and the American Way (2006)
(currently in pre-production)


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