Matt Damon – Hollywood Actor

Matt Damon – Hollywood Actor

Matthew Paige Damon or better known to fans as Matt Damon was born in Boston, United States of America to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, Realtor & tax preparer & Nancy Carlson-Paige, a primary education professor at Lesley University. Matt Damon has an older brother named Kyle who is now a sculptor. Unfortunately his parents divorced in 1973.

While his parents were still together, they lived in Newton, before settling for a divorce, where Matt & his brother moved with his mother to Cambridge. Matt grew up in a stable community back in Massachusetts. In his younger age he grew up near actor Ben Affleck.

Matt Damon attended Cambridge Ridge & Latin School which is located in Cambridge & he performed in several theater productions there. Later, he was accepted into Harvard University as an English major in the fall of 1988. While in Harvard, Matt kept on skipping classes to pursue his acting projects that included the TNT original film, rising Sun & prep-school drama, School Ties. He continues this until his film, Geronimo: An American Legend in 1993 was expected to be a big success that he decided to drop out of university completely.

After arriving in Hollywood, Luckily, Damon managed to get his first break with a part in the romantic comedy, Mystic Pizza (1988). Though the film did not do too well, he didn’t get disappointed. He went for another audition & managed to get a starring role in School Ties.

Up next for Matt Damon was a role as a soldier who had problems with drug addiction in the movie, Courage Under Fire in 1996. In the year 1998, he played the title role in Steven Spielberg's film-“ Saving Private Ryan”. It was one of the most admired films in that year. Matt was lucky to had the opportunity of working with Tom Hanks & Vin Diesel while filming that movie.

The next year, Matt rejoined his childhood friend, Ben Affleck & fellow comedian, Chris Rock, in the comedy Dogma (1999). Matt lent his voice to the animated movie, Titan A.E. (2000) which also earned mixed reviews from the public.

One of his most popular works to date is his role in the "Bourne" movie franchise. Matt plays an amnesiac assassin nameds "Jason Bourne", in The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy (2004) & The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).

In his personal life, Matt Demon is now happily married to Argentine born Luciana Barroso. He met with her in Miami. They married in a private civil ceremony on 9^th December in 2005, at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau.