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A graduate from Harvard University, Matt definitely ranks among
the most intelligent and charismatic actors of Hollywood. His first public
steps in the field of actorship are at numerous Boston-based theatre venues,
such as the American Repertory Theatre. Matts affinity to the screen
performance incites him to make his feature film debut in 1988 in a small
role in the critically acclaimed Mystic Pizza.�In Paramounts School Ties
(1992).Matt outstandingly conveys the character of a fascist preppy, thus
gaining further attention. However, 4 years later comes his most appealing
performance so far when he participates in Foxs Courage Under Fire (1996),
portraying vividly a guilt-ridden Persian Gulf War soldier tormented by a
battle incident. His friendship with colleague Ben Affleck moves to the big
screen giving incredible results. In 1998 they win an Academy Award for Best
Original Screenplay for the touching drama Good Will Hunting, as well as a
Golden Globe Award. Due to his magnificent work in the title role as an
oppressed genius whose potential does find an adequate response in
inner-city Boston, he also gets an Academy Award and a Golden Globe
nomination. The same year Matt makes another remarkable appearance in the
World War II drama Saving Private Ryan for Academy Award-winning director
Steven Spielberg. One year later Matt is as appealing as before in the
Anthony Minghellas The Talented Mr. Ripley, that also earns him a Golden
Globe nomination.� That same year he rejoins pal Ben Affleck in Dogma, a
film about a pair of outcast angels. Matts strong social attitude make him
join forces with Ben in 1998 to found Pearl Street Productions, today known
as LivePlanet, a unique company that creates an innovative kind of
entertainment experience, combining traditional media, new media and the
physical world, called integrated media. Their initiative gives birth to the
project Greenlight, whose aim is to collect original scripts from promising
young filmmakers via Internet. Thus, successful movies such as Stolen
Summer and The Battle of Shaker Heights appear in pretty a non-standard way.
In terms of acting Matt keeps maintaining the good pace in the new century
too. Among the great number of projects he takes part in stand out the
geopolitical thriller Syriana for director Stephan Gaghan, the boxoffice hit
The Bourne Supremacy, and, of course, the hit movies of director Steven
Soderbergh: Oceans Eleven and the follow-up Oceans Twelve, co-starring
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle and Julia Roberts.
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Matt Damon,and Robert DeNiro started filming in Tarrytown for the 1950s-era
CIA thriller "The Good Shepherd, directed by DeNiro himself. Damon plays one
of the early Central Intelligence Agency agents. In the Tarrytown scenes, he
takes a woman on a date to the theater. Hollywood beauty Angelina Jolie is
also in the film but does not take part in the Tarrytown scenes. November
8, 2005
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BEN AFFLECK was so paranoid about security at his June (29JUN05) wedding to JENNIFER GARNER, he didn't even invite best friend MATT DAMON. ...
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