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Matt Damon

January 13, 2023

Matthew Paige Damon (/ˈdeɪmən/; born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, film producer, and screenwriter.[2] Ranked among Forbes' most bankable stars,[3] the films in which he has appeared have collectively earned over $3.88 billion at the North American box office,[4] making him one of the highest-grossing actors of all time.[5] He has received various awards and nominations, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards and seven Primetime Emmy Awards.

Matt Damon
Born
Matthew Paige Damon

(1970-10-08) October 8, 1970 (age 52)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
EducationCambridge Rindge and Latin School
Alma materHarvard University (no degree)
Occupations
  • Actor
  • film producer
  • screenwriter
Years active1987–present
WorksFull list
Spouse
Luciana Bozán Barroso
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(m. 2005)​
Children4[1]
AwardsFull list

Damon began his acting career in the film Mystic Pizza (1988). He continued acting in Courage Under Fire (1996) and The Rainmaker (1997). He gained prominence in 1997 when he and Ben Affleck wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting, which won them the Academy and Golden Globe awards 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 con man Linus Caldwell in the Ocean's trilogy (2001–2007). Damon's other notable performances were in Saving Private Ryan (1998), Syriana (2005), The Departed (2006), The Informant! (2009), Invictus (2009), True Grit (2010), Contagion (2011), Ford v Ferrari (2019), Stillwater (2021), and The Last Duel (2021). He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for playing an astronaut stranded on Mars in The Martian (2015).

He is also known for his performances in television, including his portrayal as Scott Thorson in the HBO biopic Behind the Candelabra (2013) for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. He has guest-starred on 30 Rock in 2011 and Saturday Night Live in 2019. He also produced the reality series Project Greenlight (2001–2015) as well as the film Manchester by the Sea (2016).

Damon has performed voice-over work in both animated and documentary films, and has established two production companies with Affleck. He has been involved in charitable work with organizations including the ONE Campaign, H2O Africa Foundation, Feeding America, and Water.org.

Early life and education

Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 8, 1970,[6] the second son of Kent Telfer Damon (1942–2017), a stockbroker, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige (b. 1946), an early childhood education professor at Lesley University.[7][8][9] His father had English and Scottish ancestry, while his mother is of Finnish and Swedish descent; her family surname had been changed from Pajari to Paige.[10][11][12] Damon and his family moved to Newton for two years. His parents divorced when he was two years old, and he and his brother returned with their mother to Cambridge,[8][13] where they lived in a six-family communal house.[14][15] His brother, Kyle, is a sculptor and artist.[8][16] As a lonely teenager, he has said that he felt he did not belong.[14] Due to his mother's "by the book" approach to child-rearing,[14] he had a hard time defining his own identity.[14]

Damon attended Cambridge Alternative School and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where he was a good student.[17] He performed as an actor in several high school theater productions.[8] He credited his drama teacher Gerry Speca as an important artistic influence, though his close friend and schoolmate Ben Affleck got the "biggest roles and longest speeches".[17][18][nb 1] He attended Harvard University, where he was a resident of Lowell House and a member of the class of 1992, but left before receiving his degree to take a lead role in the film Geronimo: An American Legend. While at Harvard, Damon wrote an early treatment of the screenplay Good Will Hunting as an exercise for an English class, for which he later received an Academy Award.[20] He was a member of The Delphic Club, one of Harvard's select Final Clubs. He was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal in 2013.[21]

Career

1988–1999: Early work and breakthrough

See also: Matt Damon filmography

Damon entered Harvard in 1988,[22][nb 2] where he appeared in student theater plays, such as Burn This and A... My Name is Alice.[24][25] Later, he made his film debut at the age of 18, with a single line of dialogue in the romantic comedy Mystic Pizza.[26] As a student at Harvard, he acted in small roles such as in the TNT original film Rising Son and the ensemble prep-school drama School Ties.[27] He left the university in 1992, a semester (12 credits) shy of completion of his Bachelor of Arts in English to feature in Geronimo: An American Legend[24][28] in Los Angeles, erroneously expecting the movie to become a big success.[24][nb 3] Damon next appeared as an opiate-addicted soldier in 1996's Courage Under Fire, for which he lost 40 pounds (18 kg) in 100 days[26][30] on a self-prescribed diet and fitness regimen. Courage Under Fire gained him critical notice, when The Washington Post labeled his performance "impressive".[31]

 
Damon during filming for The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1999

During the early 1990s, Damon and Affleck wrote Good Will Hunting (1997), a screenplay about a young mathematics genius, an extension of a screenplay he wrote for an assignment at Harvard, having integrated advice from director Rob Reiner, screenwriter William Goldman, and writer/director Kevin Smith.[32] He asked Affleck to perform the scenes with him in front of the class and, when Damon later moved into Affleck's Los Angeles apartment, they began working on the script more seriously.[33] The film, which they wrote mainly during improvisation sessions, was set partly in their hometown of Cambridge, and drew from their own experiences.[34][35] They sold the screenplay to Castle Rock in 1994, but after a conflict with the company, they convinced Miramax to purchase the script.[36][37] The film received critical praise; Quentin Curtis of The Daily Telegraph found "real wit and vigour, and some depth" in their writing and Emanuel Levy of Variety wrote of Damon's acting, "[he] gives a charismatic performance in a demanding role that's bound to catapult him to stardom. Perfectly cast, he makes the aching, step-by-step transformation of Will realistic and credible."[38][39] It received nine Academy Awards nominations, including Best Actor for Damon; he and Affleck won the Oscar and Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay.[40] He and Affleck were each paid salaries of $600,000, while the film grossed over $225 million at the worldwide box office.[41][42] The two later parodied their roles from the film in Kevin Smith's 2001 movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.[43]

Speaking of his "overnight success" through Good Will Hunting, Damon said by that time he had been working in the cinema for 11 years, but still found the change "nearly indescribable—going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look".[44] Before the film, Damon played the lead in the critically acclaimed drama The Rainmaker (1997), where he was recognized by the Los Angeles Times as "a talented young actor on the brink of stardom."[45] For the role, Damon regained most of the weight he had lost for Courage Under Fire.[46] After meeting Damon on the set of Good Will Hunting, director Steven Spielberg cast him in the brief title role in the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan.[47] He co-starred with Edward Norton in the 1998 poker film Rounders, where he plays a reformed gambler in law school who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks. Despite meager earnings at the box-office, it is now considered one of the greatest poker movies of all time.[48]

Damon then portrayed antihero Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), a role for which he lost 11 kilograms (25 lb). Damon said that he wanted to display his character's humanity and honesty on screen despite his criminal actions.[49] An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel of same name, the film costarred Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Cate Blanchett, and received praise from critics.[50] "Damon outstandingly conveys his character's slide from innocent enthusiasm into cold calculation", according to Variety magazine.[51] He played a fallen angel who discusses pop culture as intellectual subject matter with Affleck in Dogma (1999).[52] The film received generally positive reviews, but proved controversial among religious groups who deemed it blasphemous.[53]

2000–2008: Worldwide recognition

In 2000, along with Ben Affleck and producers Chris Moore and Sean Bailey, Damon founded the production company LivePlanet, through which the four created the Emmy-nominated documentary series Project Greenlight to find and fund worthwhile film projects from novice filmmakers.[54][55] The company produced and founded the short-lived mystery-hybrid series Push, Nevada, among other projects.[56]

 
Damon in 2001

Damon's attempts at leading characters in romantic dramas such as 2000's All the Pretty Horses and The Legend of Bagger Vance were commercially and critically unsuccessful.[41] Variety said of his work in All the Pretty Horses: "[Damon] just doesn't quite seem like a young man who's spent his life amidst the dust and dung of a Texas cattle ranch. Nor does he strike any sparks with [Penelope] Cruz."[57] He was similarly deemed "uncomfortable being the center" of Robert Redford's The Legend of Bagger Vance by Peter Rainer of New York magazine.[58]

During this period, Damon joined two lucrative film series—Ocean's Trilogy (2001–2007) and Bourne (2002–2016)—and produced the television series Project Greenlight (2001–2005, 2015). In the former's first installment, Steven Soderbergh's 2001 ensemble film Ocean's Eleven, which is a remake of the Rat Pack's Ocean's 11 (1960), he co-starred as thief Linus Caldwell.[26] The role was originally meant for Mark Wahlberg, who refused it in favor of other projects.[59] The film was successful at the box-office, grossing $450 million from a budget of $83 million.[60] Damon, alongside Affleck and others, produced the documentary series Project Greenlight, aired on HBO and later Bravo, which helps newcomers develop their first film. The series was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program in 2002, 2004 and 2005.[61] Damon later said that he and Affleck felt proud that the show helped launch the careers of several directors; Damon later served as the executive producer of a number of projects directed by the winners of the show.[62]

Damon began 2002 with writing and starring in Gerry, a drama about two friends who forget to bring water and food when they go hiking in a desert. The reviews for the film were generally positive, but it was a box-office failure.[63][64] He then played amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne in Doug Liman's action thriller The Bourne Identity (2002). Liman considered several actors for the role, before he cast Damon.[65] Damon insisted on performing many of the stunts himself, undergoing three months of extensive training in stunt work, the use of weapons, boxing, and eskrima.[66] Damon said that before The Bourne Identity he was jobless for six months, and many of his films during that period under-performed at the box-office. He doubted the film's financial prospects, but it proved a commercial success.[64] Reviews for the film were also positive;[67] Roger Ebert praised it for its ability to absorb the viewer in its "spycraft" and "Damon's ability to be focused and sincere".[68] For his role, Entertainment Weekly named Damon among "the decade's best mixer of brawn and brains."[69]

 
Damon attending an event for The Bourne Ultimatum in 2007

Damon voiced the role of Spirit in the animated film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) and later played a conjoined twin in Stuck on You (2003), which received a mixed critical reception.[70] His major releases in 2004 included starring roles in the sequels The Bourne Supremacy and Ocean's Twelve. Both films earned more than $280 million at the box-office.[71][72] In a review for The Bourne Supremacy, BBC's Nev Pierce called the film "a brisk, engrossing and intelligent thriller", adding, "Damon is one hell of an action hero. He does a lot with very little, imbuing his limited dialogue with both rage and sorrow, looking harder and more haunted as the picture progresses".[73] For the film, he earned an Empire Award for Best Actor; the award's presenter Empire attributed Damon's win to his "astute, underplayed performance, through which he totally eschews movie star vanity".[74] He played a fictionalized version of Wilhelm Grimm alongside Heath Ledger in Terry Gilliam's fantasy adventure The Brothers Grimm (2005), which was a critically panned commercial failure;[41] The Washington Post concluded, "Damon, constantly flashing his newscaster's teeth and flaunting a fake, 'Masterpiece Theatre' dialect, comes across like someone who got lost on the way to an audition for a high school production of The Pirates of Penzance."[75]

Later in 2005, he appeared as an energy analyst in the geopolitical thriller Syriana alongside George Clooney and Jeffrey Wright.[76] The film focuses on petroleum politics and the global influence of the oil industry. Damon says starring in the film broadened his understanding of the oil industry and that he hoped the people would talk about the film afterward.[77] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone was mainly impressed with Clooney's acting, but also found Damon's performance "whiplash".[78] In 2006, Damon joined Robert De Niro in The Good Shepherd as a career CIA officer, and played an undercover mobster working for the Massachusetts State Police in Martin Scorsese's The Departed, a remake of the Hong Kong police thriller Infernal Affairs.[26] Assessing his work in the two films, Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote that Damon has the unique "ability to recede into a film while also being fully present, a recessed intensity, that distinguishes how he holds the screen."[79] The Departed received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Picture.[80][nb 4]

According to Forbes in August 2007, Damon was the most bankable star of the actors reviewed, his last three films at that time averaged US$29 at the box office for every dollar he earned.[3] Damon had an uncredited cameo in Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth (2007) and another cameo in the 2008 Che Guevara biopic Che.[81][82]

2009–present: Established actor

 
Damon attending an event for The Informant! at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival

He made a guest appearance in 2009 on the sixth-season finale of Entourage as himself, where he tries to pressure Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) into donating to his real foundation ONEXONE.[83][84] His next role was Steven Soderbergh's dark comedy The Informant! (2009),[85] in which his Golden Globe-nominated work was described by Entertainment Weekly as such: "The star – who has quietly and steadily turned into a great Everyman actor – is in nimble control as he reveals his character's deep crazies."[86] Also in 2009, Damon portrayed South Africa national rugby union team captain François Pienaar in the Clint Eastwood-directed film Invictus, which is based on the 2008 John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation and features Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela.[87] Invictus earned Damon an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. The New Republic observed that he brought "it off with low-key charm and integrity."[88] Damon also lent his voice to the English version of the animated film Ponyo, which was released in the United States in August 2009.[89]

In March 2010, Damon and Ben Affleck collaborated once again to create another production company titled Pearl Street Films, a Warner Bros.-based production company.[90][91] That same year, he reunited with director Paul Greengrass, who directed him in the Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum, for the action thriller Green Zone, which flopped commercially[92] and received a score of 53% on Rotten Tomatoes and ambivalent reception from critics.[93] He has appeared as a guest star in an episode of Arthur, titled "The Making of Arthur", as himself.[16] During season 5 of 30 Rock, he appeared as a guest star in the role of Liz Lemon's boyfriend in the episodes "I Do Do", "The Fabian Strategy", "Live Show", and "Double-edged Sword". Damon's 2010 projects included Clint Eastwood's Hereafter and the Coen brothers' remake of the 1969 John Wayne-starring Western True Grit.[94]

In 2011, he starred in The Adjustment Bureau, Contagion, and We Bought a Zoo. That same year, the documentary which he narrated, American Teacher, opened in New York prior to national screening.[95] Also in 2011, he voiced a krill named Bill in the animated film Happy Feet Two.[96] In January 2012, it was announced that Damon had signed a multiyear deal to be the voice of TD Ameritrade advertisements, replacing Sam Waterston as the discount brokerage's spokesman. Damon donated all fees from the advertisements to charity.[97] In April 2012, Damon filmed Promised Land, directed by Gus Van Sant, which Damon co-wrote with John Krasinski.[98][99][100] Damon's next film with frequent collaborator Steven Soderbergh was Behind the Candelabra, a drama about the life of pianist/entertainer Liberace (played by Michael Douglas) with Damon playing Liberace's longtime partner Scott Thorson. The film premiered on HBO on May 26, 2013.[101]

 
Damon at the French premiere of The Monuments Men in 2014

Damon starred in the science fiction film Elysium (2013), where he played former car-thief-turned-factory-worker Max DeCosta.[102] He also appeared in the science fiction movie The Zero Theorem by Terry Gilliam in 2013.[103] That same year, Damon appeared in a 20-second advertisement for Nespresso, directed by Grant Heslov, with whom he worked on The Monuments Men. The deal earned him $3 million.[104] Damon also provided voice-over for United Airlines's resurrected "Fly the Friendly Skies" advertisement campaign in 2013.[105]

In 2014, he starred in George Clooney's The Monuments Men,[106] and played the minor role of scientist Dr. Mann, in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. That same year, Damon appeared as a celebrity correspondent for Years of Living Dangerously.[107] In 2015, Damon portrayed the main character, astronaut Mark Watney, in Ridley Scott's The Martian, based on Andy Weir's best-selling novel of the same name, a role that earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and his second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Having not returned for the fourth film in the Bourne film series,[108][109] Damon reprised his role in 2016's Jason Bourne, reuniting with Paul Greengrass. In 2017, Damon played the lead role in Zhang Yimou's The Great Wall, a hit internationally and a disappointment at the domestic box office. The film, and Damon's casting, were not well received by critics.[110][111][112] Later in 2017, he starred in two satires, George Clooney's 1950s-set Suburbicon, which was released in October,[113] and Alexander Payne's comedy Downsizing, which was released in December.[114] In 2019, Damon portrayed Carroll Shelby in the action biographical drama Ford v Ferrari, directed by James Mangold.[115]

In 2021, Damon starred in Tom McCarthy's crime drama Stillwater. In the film Damon stars as an unemployed oil-rig worker from Oklahoma who sets out with a French woman to prove his convicted daughter's innocence. The film costars Abigail Breslin, and Camille Cottin. The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on July 8, 2021 where it received positive reviews. IndieWire praised Damon's performance writing, "Damon’s performance is graced with a quiet softness that offsets the sheer volume of the character he’s playing".[116] That same year he released the historical drama The Last Duel which he stars and co-wrote alongside Ben Affleck. The film set in medieval France based on the book of the same name focuses on the true story of a knight, Jean de Carrouges, portrayed by Damon, who challenges his former friend, squire Jacques Le Gris to a judicial duel after he's accused of raping his wife Marguerite. Adam Driver stars as Le Gris, and Comer stars as his wife. Affleck also stars in a supporting role as Count Pierre d'Alençon. The film premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. The film earned positive reviews despite being a financial failure of the box office.[117]

Upcoming projects

In 2021, it was confirmed that Damon would reunite with director Christopher Nolan after a cameo in Interstellar, for Nolan's upcoming biographical film Oppenheimer.[118] He will be playing Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project.[119] In 2022, he was set to star an untitled feature film based on the life of former Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro, co-starring and directed by Ben Affleck.[120]

Activism

Damon, alongside George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, David Pressman, and Jerry Weintraub, is one of the founders of Not On Our Watch Project, an organization that focuses global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities such as in Darfur.[121] Damon supports One Campaign, which is aimed at fighting AIDS and poverty in Third World countries. He has appeared in their print and television advertising. He is an ambassador for ONEXONE, a nonprofit foundation committed to supporting, preserving, and improving the lives of children at home in Canada, the United States, and around the world.[122]

Damon is a spokesperson for Feeding America, a hunger-relief organization, and a member of their Entertainment Council, participating in their Ad Council public service announcements.[123] He is a board member of Tonic Mailstopper (formerly GreenDimes), a company that attempts to halt junk mail delivered to American homes each day.[124][nb 5]

Damon was the founder of the H2O Africa Foundation, the charitable arm of the Running the Sahara expedition,[126] which merged with WaterPartners to create Water.org in July 2009.[127]

Water.org has partnered with corporate sponsors to promote awareness and raise funds to support its mission of bringing safe, clean, cost-effective drinking water and sanitation to developing countries.[128] In this context, Damon has been the face of advertising campaigns to promote Water.org in conjunction with products from major sponsors.

In October 2011, Water.org received an $8 million grant from the PepsiCo Foundation to scale up WaterCredit, which provides microloans to families throughout India.[129] Damon has been part of promoting those efforts, tying in with the Aquafina and Ethos Water brands of bottled water owned by PepsiCo and Starbucks.[130][131]

Since 2015, Damon has promoted Anheuser-Busch InBev's Stella Artois beer brand as a Water.org partner, including the sale of limited-edition "blue chalice" glasses imprinted with an embellished blue version of the brand's logo.[132][133] In a television advertisement made for broadcast during the 2018 Super Bowl of the United States' National Football League (NFL), he promoted Water.org and Stella Artois's role in supporting its work.[134]

In October 2021, he announced a new partnership with the cryptocurrency trading platform Crypto.com, under which Crypto.com was to make a $1 million donation to Water.org. In the announcement, Damon said, "Crypto.com gave us this great donation, which is amazing. The money that I make for the commercials to promote them, I give 100% of that to Water.org as well. So, it's millions of dollars coming in to us."[135][136]

Damon's Crypto.com commercial[137] started rolling out in cinemas late in 2021, and then on television in January 2022, mainly during sports programming such as NFL games. Once it was broadcast widely on television, it sparked much criticism, as did its accompanying "making of" featurette.[138] In The Independent, Nathan Place wrote, "Twitter is cringing after a TV commercial starring Matt Damon compared trading cryptocurrency to mankind's greatest achievements. In the ad, which aired during Sunday night’s NFL games, Mr Damon makes an abstract plug for crypto.com – a platform for exchanging digital currencies like Bitcoin – while striding past images of explorers and astronauts.[139] The New Zealand Herald published an article by Lexie Cartwright summing up viewer reaction: "Matt Damon's new commercial plugging cryptocurrency has been absolutely savaged on social media, with viewers dubbing it 'insulting' and 'disgusting'." The story included a series of tweets, among them one by Carole Cadwalladr of The Observer in which she wrote, "There isn't enough yuck in the world to describe Matt Damon advertising a Ponzi scheme and comparing it to the moon landings."[140] In the New York Post, Ben Cost wrote, "Matt Damon has been blasted online after appearing in a 'cringe-worthy' Crypto.com commercial that analogizes buying cryptocurrency to some of history's greatest achievements. The advert originally aired in October, but is currently going viral as critics torch its pretentious message." He described Damon's advertisement as "shameless crypto-shilling".[141][142]

Public image

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel has a running gag on his ABC television show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where he apologizes for not being able to interview Damon at the end of each show. It culminated in a planned skit on September 12, 2006, when Damon stormed off after having his interview cut short.[143] Damon appeared in several of E! Entertainment's top ten Jimmy Kimmel Live! spoofs.[144][nb 6] On January 24, 2013, Damon took over his show and mentioned the long-standing feud and having been bumped from years of shows. It involved celebrities who were previously involved in the "feud", including Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, and Sarah Silverman.[147]

Personal life

 
Damon with his wife Luciana Bozán at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival

Damon met his Argentine wife, Luciana Bozán, while filming Stuck on You in Miami in April 2003.[148][149] They became engaged in September 2005 and married in a private civil ceremony at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau on December 9, 2005. They have three daughters together born in June 2006,[150] August 2008,[151] and October 2010.[152] He also has a stepdaughter Alexia Barroso (born 1998) from Bozán's previous marriage, and considers her to be his own.[153][154]

The couple has lived in Miami and New York City;[155] and since 2012, they have lived in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.[156]

In 2018, Damon bought a luxury penthouse in New York City's Brooklyn Heights neighborhood for $16.5 million,[157] making it Brooklyn's most expensive apartment at the time.[158] He is a fan of the Boston Red Sox.[159] After the team won the 2007 World Series, he narrated the commemorative DVD release of the event.[160] He has competed in several World Series of Poker (WSOP) events,[161][162] including the 2010 World Series of Poker main event.[163] He was eliminated from the 1998 WSOP by poker professional Doyle Brunson.[164]

Politics

While discussing the Iraq War on Hardball with Chris Matthews in December 2006, Damon expressed concern about inequities across socioeconomic classes with regard to who is tasked with the responsibility of fighting wars.[165]

Damon is a supporter of the Democratic Party, and has made several critical attacks against Republican Party figures. However, he also expressed disappointment over the policies of President Barack Obama.[166][167] He had a working relationship with the Obama administration, primarily due to his friendship with Jason Furman, his former Harvard roommate who became Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to Obama.[168]

In 2010, Damon narrated the documentary film Inside Job, about the part played by financial deregulation in the late-2000s financial crisis.

In 2012, Damon joined Ben Affleck and John Krasinski in hosting a fundraiser for Democratic Senate nominee Elizabeth Warren.[169]

Damon endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.[170][171]

Social views

In October and December 2017, Damon made headlines when he made a series of comments regarding the Me Too movement against sexual harassment and misconduct. On October 10, Sharon Waxman, a former reporter for The New York Times, mentioned that Damon and Russell Crowe had made direct phone calls to her to vouch for the head of Miramax Italy, Fabrizio Lombardo. In her report, she suspected Lombardo of facilitating incidents of Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct in Europe.[172][173][174] However, Damon clarified later that the calls were solely to reassure her of Lombardo's professional qualifications in the film industry.[175] Waxman endorsed Damon's statement on Twitter hours later.[176] Also during this time, Damon said that he had heard a story from Ben Affleck that Gwyneth Paltrow, a co-worker on a feature film of his, had been harassed by Weinstein in 1996, but thought "she had handled it" because they continued to work together, and Weinstein "treated her incredibly respectfully".[177][178]

In another series of interviews during December 2017, Damon advocated for a "spectrum of behavior" analysis[179][180][181][182] of sexual misconduct cases, noting that some are more serious than others.[183][181][182] The comment caused offense to prominent members of the Me Too movement[183][184] and the public for being "tone-deaf in understand[ing] what abuse is like".[184][183] On January 17, 2018, Damon apologized on The Today Show for his social commentary, stating that he "should get in the back seat and close [his] mouth for a while".[185]

In March 2018, Damon and Affleck announced they would adopt the inclusion rider agreement in all their future production deals through their company Pearl Street Films.[186]

In August 2021, Damon sparked controversy after stating in an interview with The Sunday Times that he had only "months ago" stopped using the word "fag", saying that it "was commonly used when I was a kid, with a different application."[187] This had come after an incident in which his daughter left the table due to his usage of the word and "wrote a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous."[188] He denied ever using the six-letter word "faggot" in his "personal life";[189] and went on to state, in regard to the word "fag", "I explained that that word was used constantly and casually and was even a line of dialogue in a movie of mine as recently as 2003; she in turn expressed incredulity that there could ever have been a time where that word was used unthinkingly. To my admiration and pride, she was extremely articulate about the extent to which that word would have been painful to someone in the LGBTQ+ community regardless of how culturally normalized it was. I not only agreed with her but thrilled at her passion, values and desire for social justice."

Awards and honors

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Matt Damon

Aside from awards he has garnered for his role as an actor and producer, Damon became the 2,343rd person to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 25, 2007.[190] He reacted to the award by stating: "A few times in my life, I've had these experiences that are just kind of too big to process and this looks like it's going to be one of those times."[191]

Notes

  1. ^ Another neighbor of Damon's was historian and author Howard Zinn,[19] whose biographical film You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train and audio version of A People's History of the United States Damon later narrated.[15]
  2. ^ He lived in Matthews Hall and then Lowell House[23]
  3. ^ "By the time I figured out I had made the wrong decision, it was too late. I was living out here with a bunch of actors, and we were all scrambling to make ends meet," he has said.[29]
  4. ^ Box Office Mojo ranked it seventh amongst his films.[41]
  5. ^ Appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show on April 20, 2007, Damon promoted the organization's efforts to prevent the trees used for junk mail letters and envelopes from being chopped down. Damon stated: "For an estimated dime a day they can stop 70% of the junk mail that comes to your house. It's very simple, easy to do, great gift to give, I've actually signed up my entire family. It was a gift given to me this past holiday season and I was so impressed that I'm now on the board of the company."[125][better source needed]
  6. ^ On January 31, 2008, Kimmel aired a clip of his then girlfriend, comedian Sarah Silverman, singing a song entitled "I'm Fucking Matt Damon" in which Damon appeared.[144][145] Kimmel responded on February 24, 2008, with his music video which said that he was "fucking Ben Affleck". It featured Affleck along with several other actors.[144] Another encounter, titled "The Handsome Men's Club", featured Kimmel, along with handsome actors and musicians. At the end of the skit, Kimmel had a door slammed in his face by Damon, who said that they had run out of time, followed by a sinister laugh.[144][146]

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Further reading

  • Altman, Sheryl and Berk, Sheryl. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck: On and Off Screen. HarperCollins Publishers, 1998. ISBN 0-06-107145-5.
  • Bego, Mark. Matt Damon: Chasing a Dream. Andrews Mcmeel Pub, 1998. ISBN 0-8362-7131-9.
  • Diamond, Maxine and Hemmings, Harriet. Matt Damon a Biography. Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 1998. ISBN 0-671-02649-6.
  • Nickson, Chris. Matt Damon: An Unauthorized Biography. Renaissance Books, 1999. ISBN 1-58063-072-3.

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matt, damon, matthew, paige, damon, born, october, 1970, american, actor, film, producer, screenwriter, ranked, among, forbes, most, bankable, stars, films, which, appeared, have, collectively, earned, over, billion, north, american, office, making, highest, g. Matthew Paige Damon ˈ d eɪ m e n born October 8 1970 is an American actor film producer and screenwriter 2 Ranked among Forbes most bankable stars 3 the films in which he has appeared have collectively earned over 3 88 billion at the North American box office 4 making him one of the highest grossing actors of all time 5 He has received various awards and nominations including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards and seven Primetime Emmy Awards Matt DamonDamon at the 2015 Toronto International Film FestivalBornMatthew Paige Damon 1970 10 08 October 8 1970 age 52 Cambridge Massachusetts USEducationCambridge Rindge and Latin SchoolAlma materHarvard University no degree OccupationsActorfilm producerscreenwriterYears active1987 presentWorksFull listSpouseLuciana Bozan Barroso m 2005 wbr Children4 1 AwardsFull listDamon began his acting career in the film Mystic Pizza 1988 He continued acting in Courage Under Fire 1996 and The Rainmaker 1997 He gained prominence in 1997 when he and Ben Affleck wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting which won them the Academy and Golden Globe awards 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 con man Linus Caldwell in the Ocean s trilogy 2001 2007 Damon s other notable performances were in Saving Private Ryan 1998 Syriana 2005 The Departed 2006 The Informant 2009 Invictus 2009 True Grit 2010 Contagion 2011 Ford v Ferrari 2019 Stillwater 2021 and The Last Duel 2021 He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for playing an astronaut stranded on Mars in The Martian 2015 He is also known for his performances in television including his portrayal as Scott Thorson in the HBO biopic Behind the Candelabra 2013 for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award He has guest starred on 30 Rock in 2011 and Saturday Night Live in 2019 He also produced the reality series Project Greenlight 2001 2015 as well as the film Manchester by the Sea 2016 Damon has performed voice over work in both animated and documentary films and has established two production companies with Affleck He has been involved in charitable work with organizations including the ONE Campaign H2O Africa Foundation Feeding America and Water org Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 1988 1999 Early work and breakthrough 2 2 2000 2008 Worldwide recognition 2 3 2009 present Established actor 2 3 1 Upcoming projects 3 Activism 4 Public image 5 Personal life 5 1 Politics 5 2 Social views 6 Awards and honors 7 Notes 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External linksEarly life and educationDamon was born in Cambridge Massachusetts on October 8 1970 6 the second son of Kent Telfer Damon 1942 2017 a stockbroker and Nancy Carlsson Paige b 1946 an early childhood education professor at Lesley University 7 8 9 His father had English and Scottish ancestry while his mother is of Finnish and Swedish descent her family surname had been changed from Pajari to Paige 10 11 12 Damon and his family moved to Newton for two years His parents divorced when he was two years old and he and his brother returned with their mother to Cambridge 8 13 where they lived in a six family communal house 14 15 His brother Kyle is a sculptor and artist 8 16 As a lonely teenager he has said that he felt he did not belong 14 Due to his mother s by the book approach to child rearing 14 he had a hard time defining his own identity 14 Damon attended Cambridge Alternative School and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School where he was a good student 17 He performed as an actor in several high school theater productions 8 He credited his drama teacher Gerry Speca as an important artistic influence though his close friend and schoolmate Ben Affleck got the biggest roles and longest speeches 17 18 nb 1 He attended Harvard University where he was a resident of Lowell House and a member of the class of 1992 but left before receiving his degree to take a lead role in the film Geronimo An American Legend While at Harvard Damon wrote an early treatment of the screenplay Good Will Hunting as an exercise for an English class for which he later received an Academy Award 20 He was a member of The Delphic Club one of Harvard s select Final Clubs He was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal in 2013 21 Career1988 1999 Early work and breakthrough See also Matt Damon filmography Damon entered Harvard in 1988 22 nb 2 where he appeared in student theater plays such as Burn This and A My Name is Alice 24 25 Later he made his film debut at the age of 18 with a single line of dialogue in the romantic comedy Mystic Pizza 26 As a student at Harvard he acted in small roles such as in the TNT original film Rising Son and the ensemble prep school drama School Ties 27 He left the university in 1992 a semester 12 credits shy of completion of his Bachelor of Arts in English to feature in Geronimo An American Legend 24 28 in Los Angeles erroneously expecting the movie to become a big success 24 nb 3 Damon next appeared as an opiate addicted soldier in 1996 s Courage Under Fire for which he lost 40 pounds 18 kg in 100 days 26 30 on a self prescribed diet and fitness regimen Courage Under Fire gained him critical notice when The Washington Post labeled his performance impressive 31 Damon during filming for The Talented Mr Ripley in 1999 During the early 1990s Damon and Affleck wrote Good Will Hunting 1997 a screenplay about a young mathematics genius an extension of a screenplay he wrote for an assignment at Harvard having integrated advice from director Rob Reiner screenwriter William Goldman and writer director Kevin Smith 32 He asked Affleck to perform the scenes with him in front of the class and when Damon later moved into Affleck s Los Angeles apartment they began working on the script more seriously 33 The film which they wrote mainly during improvisation sessions was set partly in their hometown of Cambridge and drew from their own experiences 34 35 They sold the screenplay to Castle Rock in 1994 but after a conflict with the company they convinced Miramax to purchase the script 36 37 The film received critical praise Quentin Curtis of The Daily Telegraph found real wit and vigour and some depth in their writing and Emanuel Levy of Variety wrote of Damon s acting he gives a charismatic performance in a demanding role that s bound to catapult him to stardom Perfectly cast he makes the aching step by step transformation of Will realistic and credible 38 39 It received nine Academy Awards nominations including Best Actor for Damon he and Affleck won the Oscar and Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay 40 He and Affleck were each paid salaries of 600 000 while the film grossed over 225 million at the worldwide box office 41 42 The two later parodied their roles from the film in Kevin Smith s 2001 movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 43 Speaking of his overnight success through Good Will Hunting Damon said by that time he had been working in the cinema for 11 years but still found the change nearly indescribable going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look 44 Before the film Damon played the lead in the critically acclaimed drama The Rainmaker 1997 where he was recognized by the Los Angeles Times as a talented young actor on the brink of stardom 45 For the role Damon regained most of the weight he had lost for Courage Under Fire 46 After meeting Damon on the set of Good Will Hunting director Steven Spielberg cast him in the brief title role in the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan 47 He co starred with Edward Norton in the 1998 poker film Rounders where he plays a reformed gambler in law school who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks Despite meager earnings at the box office it is now considered one of the greatest poker movies of all time 48 Damon then portrayed antihero Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr Ripley 1999 a role for which he lost 11 kilograms 25 lb Damon said that he wanted to display his character s humanity and honesty on screen despite his criminal actions 49 An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith s 1955 novel of same name the film costarred Jude Law Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett and received praise from critics 50 Damon outstandingly conveys his character s slide from innocent enthusiasm into cold calculation according to Variety magazine 51 He played a fallen angel who discusses pop culture as intellectual subject matter with Affleck in Dogma 1999 52 The film received generally positive reviews but proved controversial among religious groups who deemed it blasphemous 53 2000 2008 Worldwide recognition In 2000 along with Ben Affleck and producers Chris Moore and Sean Bailey Damon founded the production company LivePlanet through which the four created the Emmy nominated documentary series Project Greenlight to find and fund worthwhile film projects from novice filmmakers 54 55 The company produced and founded the short lived mystery hybrid series Push Nevada among other projects 56 Damon in 2001 Damon s attempts at leading characters in romantic dramas such as 2000 s All the Pretty Horses and The Legend of Bagger Vance were commercially and critically unsuccessful 41 Variety said of his work in All the Pretty Horses Damon just doesn t quite seem like a young man who s spent his life amidst the dust and dung of a Texas cattle ranch Nor does he strike any sparks with Penelope Cruz 57 He was similarly deemed uncomfortable being the center of Robert Redford s The Legend of Bagger Vance by Peter Rainer of New York magazine 58 During this period Damon joined two lucrative film series Ocean s Trilogy 2001 2007 and Bourne 2002 2016 and produced the television series Project Greenlight 2001 2005 2015 In the former s first installment Steven Soderbergh s 2001 ensemble film Ocean s Eleven which is a remake of the Rat Pack s Ocean s 11 1960 he co starred as thief Linus Caldwell 26 The role was originally meant for Mark Wahlberg who refused it in favor of other projects 59 The film was successful at the box office grossing 450 million from a budget of 83 million 60 Damon alongside Affleck and others produced the documentary series Project Greenlight aired on HBO and later Bravo which helps newcomers develop their first film The series was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program in 2002 2004 and 2005 61 Damon later said that he and Affleck felt proud that the show helped launch the careers of several directors Damon later served as the executive producer of a number of projects directed by the winners of the show 62 Damon began 2002 with writing and starring in Gerry a drama about two friends who forget to bring water and food when they go hiking in a desert The reviews for the film were generally positive but it was a box office failure 63 64 He then played amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne in Doug Liman s action thriller The Bourne Identity 2002 Liman considered several actors for the role before he cast Damon 65 Damon insisted on performing many of the stunts himself undergoing three months of extensive training in stunt work the use of weapons boxing and eskrima 66 Damon said that before The Bourne Identity he was jobless for six months and many of his films during that period under performed at the box office He doubted the film s financial prospects but it proved a commercial success 64 Reviews for the film were also positive 67 Roger Ebert praised it for its ability to absorb the viewer in its spycraft and Damon s ability to be focused and sincere 68 For his role Entertainment Weekly named Damon among the decade s best mixer of brawn and brains 69 Damon attending an event for The Bourne Ultimatum in 2007 Damon voiced the role of Spirit in the animated film Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron 2002 and later played a conjoined twin in Stuck on You 2003 which received a mixed critical reception 70 His major releases in 2004 included starring roles in the sequels The Bourne Supremacy and Ocean s Twelve Both films earned more than 280 million at the box office 71 72 In a review for The Bourne Supremacy BBC s Nev Pierce called the film a brisk engrossing and intelligent thriller adding Damon is one hell of an action hero He does a lot with very little imbuing his limited dialogue with both rage and sorrow looking harder and more haunted as the picture progresses 73 For the film he earned an Empire Award for Best Actor the award s presenter Empire attributed Damon s win to his astute underplayed performance through which he totally eschews movie star vanity 74 He played a fictionalized version of Wilhelm Grimm alongside Heath Ledger in Terry Gilliam s fantasy adventure The Brothers Grimm 2005 which was a critically panned commercial failure 41 The Washington Post concluded Damon constantly flashing his newscaster s teeth and flaunting a fake Masterpiece Theatre dialect comes across like someone who got lost on the way to an audition for a high school production of The Pirates of Penzance 75 Later in 2005 he appeared as an energy analyst in the geopolitical thriller Syriana alongside George Clooney and Jeffrey Wright 76 The film focuses on petroleum politics and the global influence of the oil industry Damon says starring in the film broadened his understanding of the oil industry and that he hoped the people would talk about the film afterward 77 Peter Travers of Rolling Stone was mainly impressed with Clooney s acting but also found Damon s performance whiplash 78 In 2006 Damon joined Robert De Niro in The Good Shepherd as a career CIA officer and played an undercover mobster working for the Massachusetts State Police in Martin Scorsese s The Departed a remake of the Hong Kong police thriller Infernal Affairs 26 Assessing his work in the two films Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote that Damon has the unique ability to recede into a film while also being fully present a recessed intensity that distinguishes how he holds the screen 79 The Departed received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Picture 80 nb 4 According to Forbes in August 2007 Damon was the most bankable star of the actors reviewed his last three films at that time averaged US 29 at the box office for every dollar he earned 3 Damon had an uncredited cameo in Francis Ford Coppola s Youth Without Youth 2007 and another cameo in the 2008 Che Guevara biopic Che 81 82 2009 present Established actor Damon attending an event for The Informant at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival He made a guest appearance in 2009 on the sixth season finale of Entourage as himself where he tries to pressure Vincent Chase Adrian Grenier into donating to his real foundation ONEXONE 83 84 His next role was Steven Soderbergh s dark comedy The Informant 2009 85 in which his Golden Globe nominated work was described by Entertainment Weekly as such The star who has quietly and steadily turned into a great Everyman actor is in nimble control as he reveals his character s deep crazies 86 Also in 2009 Damon portrayed South Africa national rugby union team captain Francois Pienaar in the Clint Eastwood directed film Invictus which is based on the 2008 John Carlin book Playing the Enemy Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation and features Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela 87 Invictus earned Damon an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor The New Republic observed that he brought it off with low key charm and integrity 88 Damon also lent his voice to the English version of the animated film Ponyo which was released in the United States in August 2009 89 In March 2010 Damon and Ben Affleck collaborated once again to create another production company titled Pearl Street Films a Warner Bros based production company 90 91 That same year he reunited with director Paul Greengrass who directed him in the Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum for the action thriller Green Zone which flopped commercially 92 and received a score of 53 on Rotten Tomatoes and ambivalent reception from critics 93 He has appeared as a guest star in an episode of Arthur titled The Making of Arthur as himself 16 During season 5 of 30 Rock he appeared as a guest star in the role of Liz Lemon s boyfriend in the episodes I Do Do The Fabian Strategy Live Show and Double edged Sword Damon s 2010 projects included Clint Eastwood s Hereafter and the Coen brothers remake of the 1969 John Wayne starring Western True Grit 94 In 2011 he starred in The Adjustment Bureau Contagion and We Bought a Zoo That same year the documentary which he narrated American Teacher opened in New York prior to national screening 95 Also in 2011 he voiced a krill named Bill in the animated film Happy Feet Two 96 In January 2012 it was announced that Damon had signed a multiyear deal to be the voice of TD Ameritrade advertisements replacing Sam Waterston as the discount brokerage s spokesman Damon donated all fees from the advertisements to charity 97 In April 2012 Damon filmed Promised Land directed by Gus Van Sant which Damon co wrote with John Krasinski 98 99 100 Damon s next film with frequent collaborator Steven Soderbergh was Behind the Candelabra a drama about the life of pianist entertainer Liberace played by Michael Douglas with Damon playing Liberace s longtime partner Scott Thorson The film premiered on HBO on May 26 2013 101 Damon at the French premiere of The Monuments Men in 2014 Damon starred in the science fiction film Elysium 2013 where he played former car thief turned factory worker Max DeCosta 102 He also appeared in the science fiction movie The Zero Theorem by Terry Gilliam in 2013 103 That same year Damon appeared in a 20 second advertisement for Nespresso directed by Grant Heslov with whom he worked on The Monuments Men The deal earned him 3 million 104 Damon also provided voice over for United Airlines s resurrected Fly the Friendly Skies advertisement campaign in 2013 105 In 2014 he starred in George Clooney s The Monuments Men 106 and played the minor role of scientist Dr Mann in Christopher Nolan s Interstellar That same year Damon appeared as a celebrity correspondent for Years of Living Dangerously 107 In 2015 Damon portrayed the main character astronaut Mark Watney in Ridley Scott s The Martian based on Andy Weir s best selling novel of the same name a role that earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and his second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor Having not returned for the fourth film in the Bourne film series 108 109 Damon reprised his role in 2016 s Jason Bourne reuniting with Paul Greengrass In 2017 Damon played the lead role in Zhang Yimou s The Great Wall a hit internationally and a disappointment at the domestic box office The film and Damon s casting were not well received by critics 110 111 112 Later in 2017 he starred in two satires George Clooney s 1950s set Suburbicon which was released in October 113 and Alexander Payne s comedy Downsizing which was released in December 114 In 2019 Damon portrayed Carroll Shelby in the action biographical drama Ford v Ferrari directed by James Mangold 115 In 2021 Damon starred in Tom McCarthy s crime drama Stillwater In the film Damon stars as an unemployed oil rig worker from Oklahoma who sets out with a French woman to prove his convicted daughter s innocence The film costars Abigail Breslin and Camille Cottin The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on July 8 2021 where it received positive reviews IndieWire praised Damon s performance writing Damon s performance is graced with a quiet softness that offsets the sheer volume of the character he s playing 116 That same year he released the historical drama The Last Duel which he stars and co wrote alongside Ben Affleck The film set in medieval France based on the book of the same name focuses on the true story of a knight Jean de Carrouges portrayed by Damon who challenges his former friend squire Jacques Le Gris to a judicial duel after he s accused of raping his wife Marguerite Adam Driver stars as Le Gris and Comer stars as his wife Affleck also stars in a supporting role as Count Pierre d Alencon The film premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival The film earned positive reviews despite being a financial failure of the box office 117 Upcoming projects In 2021 it was confirmed that Damon would reunite with director Christopher Nolan after a cameo in Interstellar for Nolan s upcoming biographical film Oppenheimer 118 He will be playing Leslie Groves the director of the Manhattan Project 119 In 2022 he was set to star an untitled feature film based on the life of former Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro co starring and directed by Ben Affleck 120 Activism Damon with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti in 2008 Damon alongside George Clooney Brad Pitt Don Cheadle David Pressman and Jerry Weintraub is one of the founders of Not On Our Watch Project an organization that focuses global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities such as in Darfur 121 Damon supports One Campaign which is aimed at fighting AIDS and poverty in Third World countries He has appeared in their print and television advertising He is an ambassador for ONEXONE a nonprofit foundation committed to supporting preserving and improving the lives of children at home in Canada the United States and around the world 122 Damon is a spokesperson for Feeding America a hunger relief organization and a member of their Entertainment Council participating in their Ad Council public service announcements 123 He is a board member of Tonic Mailstopper formerly GreenDimes a company that attempts to halt junk mail delivered to American homes each day 124 nb 5 Damon was the founder of the H2O Africa Foundation the charitable arm of the Running the Sahara expedition 126 which merged with WaterPartners to create Water org in July 2009 127 Water org has partnered with corporate sponsors to promote awareness and raise funds to support its mission of bringing safe clean cost effective drinking water and sanitation to developing countries 128 In this context Damon has been the face of advertising campaigns to promote Water org in conjunction with products from major sponsors In October 2011 Water org received an 8 million grant from the PepsiCo Foundation to scale up WaterCredit which provides microloans to families throughout India 129 Damon has been part of promoting those efforts tying in with the Aquafina and Ethos Water brands of bottled water owned by PepsiCo and Starbucks 130 131 Since 2015 Damon has promoted Anheuser Busch InBev s Stella Artois beer brand as a Water org partner including the sale of limited edition blue chalice glasses imprinted with an embellished blue version of the brand s logo 132 133 In a television advertisement made for broadcast during the 2018 Super Bowl of the United States National Football League NFL he promoted Water org and Stella Artois s role in supporting its work 134 In October 2021 he announced a new partnership with the cryptocurrency trading platform Crypto com under which Crypto com was to make a 1 million donation to Water org In the announcement Damon said Crypto com gave us this great donation which is amazing The money that I make for the commercials to promote them I give 100 of that to Water org as well So it s millions of dollars coming in to us 135 136 Damon s Crypto com commercial 137 started rolling out in cinemas late in 2021 and then on television in January 2022 mainly during sports programming such as NFL games Once it was broadcast widely on television it sparked much criticism as did its accompanying making of featurette 138 In The Independent Nathan Place wrote Twitter is cringing after a TV commercial starring Matt Damon compared trading cryptocurrency to mankind s greatest achievements In the ad which aired during Sunday night s NFL games Mr Damon makes an abstract plug for crypto com a platform for exchanging digital currencies like Bitcoin while striding past images of explorers and astronauts 139 The New Zealand Herald published an article by Lexie Cartwright summing up viewer reaction Matt Damon s new commercial plugging cryptocurrency has been absolutely savaged on social media with viewers dubbing it insulting and disgusting The story included a series of tweets among them one by Carole Cadwalladr of The Observer in which she wrote There isn t enough yuck in the world to describe Matt Damon advertising a Ponzi scheme and comparing it to the moon landings 140 In the New York Post Ben Cost wrote Matt Damon has been blasted online after appearing in a cringe worthy Crypto com commercial that analogizes buying cryptocurrency to some of history s greatest achievements The advert originally aired in October but is currently going viral as critics torch its pretentious message He described Damon s advertisement as shameless crypto shilling 141 142 Public imageComedian Jimmy Kimmel has a running gag on his ABC television show Jimmy Kimmel Live where he apologizes for not being able to interview Damon at the end of each show It culminated in a planned skit on September 12 2006 when Damon stormed off after having his interview cut short 143 Damon appeared in several of E Entertainment s top ten Jimmy Kimmel Live spoofs 144 nb 6 On January 24 2013 Damon took over his show and mentioned the long standing feud and having been bumped from years of shows It involved celebrities who were previously involved in the feud including Robin Williams Ben Affleck and Sarah Silverman 147 Personal life Damon with his wife Luciana Bozan at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival Damon met his Argentine wife Luciana Bozan while filming Stuck on You in Miami in April 2003 148 149 They became engaged in September 2005 and married in a private civil ceremony at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau on December 9 2005 They have three daughters together born in June 2006 150 August 2008 151 and October 2010 152 He also has a stepdaughter Alexia Barroso born 1998 from Bozan s previous marriage and considers her to be his own 153 154 The couple has lived in Miami and New York City 155 and since 2012 they have lived in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles 156 In 2018 Damon bought a luxury penthouse in New York City s Brooklyn Heights neighborhood for 16 5 million 157 making it Brooklyn s most expensive apartment at the time 158 He is a fan of the Boston Red Sox 159 After the team won the 2007 World Series he narrated the commemorative DVD release of the event 160 He has competed in several World Series of Poker WSOP events 161 162 including the 2010 World Series of Poker main event 163 He was eliminated from the 1998 WSOP by poker professional Doyle Brunson 164 Politics While discussing the Iraq War on Hardball with Chris Matthews in December 2006 Damon expressed concern about inequities across socioeconomic classes with regard to who is tasked with the responsibility of fighting wars 165 Damon is a supporter of the Democratic Party and has made several critical attacks against Republican Party figures However he also expressed disappointment over the policies of President Barack Obama 166 167 He had a working relationship with the Obama administration primarily due to his friendship with Jason Furman his former Harvard roommate who became Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to Obama 168 In 2010 Damon narrated the documentary film Inside Job about the part played by financial deregulation in the late 2000s financial crisis In 2012 Damon joined Ben Affleck and John Krasinski in hosting a fundraiser for Democratic Senate nominee Elizabeth Warren 169 Damon endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election 170 171 Social views In October and December 2017 Damon made headlines when he made a series of comments regarding the Me Too movement against sexual harassment and misconduct On October 10 Sharon Waxman a former reporter for The New York Times mentioned that Damon and Russell Crowe had made direct phone calls to her to vouch for the head of Miramax Italy Fabrizio Lombardo In her report she suspected Lombardo of facilitating incidents of Harvey Weinstein s sexual misconduct in Europe 172 173 174 However Damon clarified later that the calls were solely to reassure her of Lombardo s professional qualifications in the film industry 175 Waxman endorsed Damon s statement on Twitter hours later 176 Also during this time Damon said that he had heard a story from Ben Affleck that Gwyneth Paltrow a co worker on a feature film of his had been harassed by Weinstein in 1996 but thought she had handled it because they continued to work together and Weinstein treated her incredibly respectfully 177 178 In another series of interviews during December 2017 Damon advocated for a spectrum of behavior analysis 179 180 181 182 of sexual misconduct cases noting that some are more serious than others 183 181 182 The comment caused offense to prominent members of the Me Too movement 183 184 and the public for being tone deaf in understand ing what abuse is like 184 183 On January 17 2018 Damon apologized on The Today Show for his social commentary stating that he should get in the back seat and close his mouth for a while 185 In March 2018 Damon and Affleck announced they would adopt the inclusion rider agreement in all their future production deals through their company Pearl Street Films 186 In August 2021 Damon sparked controversy after stating in an interview with The Sunday Times that he had only months ago stopped using the word fag saying that it was commonly used when I was a kid with a different application 187 This had come after an incident in which his daughter left the table due to his usage of the word and wrote a very long beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous 188 He denied ever using the six letter word faggot in his personal life 189 and went on to state in regard to the word fag I explained that that word was used constantly and casually and was even a line of dialogue in a movie of mine as recently as 2003 she in turn expressed incredulity that there could ever have been a time where that word was used unthinkingly To my admiration and pride she was extremely articulate about the extent to which that word would have been painful to someone in the LGBTQ community regardless of how culturally normalized it was I not only agreed with her but thrilled at her passion values and desire for social justice Awards and honorsMain article List of awards and nominations received by Matt Damon Aside from awards he has garnered for his role as an actor and producer Damon became the 2 343rd person to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 25 2007 190 He reacted to the award by stating A few times in my life I ve had these experiences that are just kind of too big to process and this looks like it s going to be one of those times 191 Matt Damon s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Handprints and footprints of Damon in front of the Grauman s Chinese TheatreNotes Another neighbor of Damon s was historian and author Howard Zinn 19 whose biographical film You Can t Be Neutral on a Moving Train and audio version of A People s History of the United States Damon later narrated 15 He lived in Matthews Hall and then Lowell House 23 By the time I figured out I had made the wrong decision it was too late I was living out here with a bunch of actors and we were all scrambling to make ends meet he has said 29 Box Office Mojo ranked it seventh amongst his films 41 Appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show on April 20 2007 Damon promoted the organization s efforts to prevent the trees used for junk mail letters and envelopes from being chopped down Damon stated For an estimated dime a day they can stop 70 of the junk mail that comes to your house It s very simple easy to do great gift to give I ve actually signed up my entire family It was a gift given to me this past holiday season and I was so impressed that I m now on the board of the company 125 better source needed On January 31 2008 Kimmel aired a clip of his then girlfriend comedian Sarah Silverman singing a song entitled I m Fucking Matt Damon in which Damon appeared 144 145 Kimmel responded on February 24 2008 with his music video which said that he was fucking Ben Affleck It featured Affleck along with several other actors 144 Another encounter titled The Handsome Men s Club featured Kimmel along with handsome actors and musicians At the end of the skit Kimmel had a door slammed in his face by Damon who said that they had run out of time followed by a sinister laugh 144 146 References Fleming Mike Jr October 10 2017 Matt Damon Denies Trying To Kill 2004 NYT Harvey Weinstein 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