Career

He played his first small roles as a student. In 1996 he appeared in Courage to Fight with Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan. Together with Ben Affleck, they continued writing the scrypt for the film Good Will Hunting. But film studios refused to buy him because Damon and Affleck wanted to play in the film. The scrypt was eventually acquired by Miramax Films. The film Good Will Hunting 1997 brought Damon and Affleck Oscar for best screenplay. With a budget of $10 million, the film grossed $225 million worldwide. In 1995, he refused to play the role in the film. The Quick and the Dead, which was eventually played by Leonardo DiCaprio. The actor could play one of the roles in the film To Die in the Name 1995, but in the end the role went to Joaquin Phoenix.

In 1998, he played in the film Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg. In 1999, with Ben Affleck, he starred in the comedy about two fallen angels Dogma by Kevin Smith and The Talented Mr. Ripley directed by Anthony Minghella with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law. In order to play the lead role in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Matt Damon lost 13.5 kilograms. In addition, he had to learn to play the piano

Personal life

Matt Damon is married to Argentinean Luciana Bosan Barroso (b. 1976). The future spouses met in 2003 in Miami , where Luciana worked as a bartender. The wedding took place on December 9, 2005 in New York (Luciana was pregnant by that time). The registration was done at the Manhattan Marriage Registry Office.

June 11, 2006 in Miami Florida, their daughter Isabella was born. On August 20, 2008, a second girl appeared in Matts family, she was named Gia Zavala. In October 2010, the third daughter was born, who was given the name Stella Zavala. Luciana also has a daughter, Alexia (b. 1999), from her first marriage.

The actor smoked, but quit after a visit to a hypnotist.

He is a fan of the Boston Red Sox baseball club from his native Massachusetts.

Scandals

In 2015, when Damon participated in a Greenlight film promotion show for young directors, at some point he became embroiled in a discussion about moving on to the next stage of the tandem directors, consisting of an Asian man and a white woman. Damon insisted on the passage of a pair of male directors and, in the heat of the controversy, even dropped the phrase that racial and gender diversity is good in the casting of the film, and not on the other side of the camera. For these words, the actor had to apologize not only to the participants of the show and the audience, but also to the producers of the project, for this the actor made a statement that the selection is based solely on merit, and not on skin color and gender