“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”
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Matthew Paige Damon is an American actor, film producer, and screenwriter. He was ranked among Forbes's most bankable stars in 2007, and in 2010 was one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. He has received various awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, an Actor Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards and seven Primeti…
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2026· 9 entries
“nearly indescribable—going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look”
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“s by-the-book approach to child-rearing had made it hard for him to define his own identity. Damon attended Cambridge Alternative School and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, and was a good student. He acted in several high-school theater productions, and has credited his drama teacher, Gerry Speca, with having an important artistic influence on him, while noting wryly that Speca gave Ben Affleck (Damon”
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AOL: EXCLUSIVE: Matt Damon's Daughter Isabella Trolled After Signing With Top Modeling Agency
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Yahoo: Internet Reacts To Matt Damon's 20-Year-Old Daughter Signing With IMG Models: 'Another Nepo Baby'
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AOL: Matt Damon, Julia Roberts & More Join Popular David Letterman Netflix Show’s Season 7
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The Guardian: ‘The greatest arms I’ve ever seen’: Matt Damon’s muscular female stunt double Devyn Dalton
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The Guardian: Miami sheriff’s deputies sue Ben Affleck and Matt Damon over The Rip movie
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The Guardian: Saturday Night Live: Matt Damon is a stellar host of another standout episode
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2025· 1 entry
Damon competed alongside game show host Ken Jennings in an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, winning $1 million for Water
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2024· 1 entry
Damon starred in and produced The Instigators, alongside Casey Affleck, for Apple TV+
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2023· 3 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Actor Mark Wahlberg once said, "If you don't like the USA, please leave and take your comrades Alec Baldwin, Cher, Madonna, Rosie [O'Donnell], Jennifer Lawrence, Miley Cyrus, Mark Ruffalo, Sean Penn, Robert De Niro, Barbra Streisand, Matt Damon, Oprah [Winfrey], Colin Kaepernick and the whole lot…” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “An online video accurately reported that Joe Rogan had revealed how Matt Damon "prostituted himself" into Hollywood fame and said, "He sold himself."” False.
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Damon starred as Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro in Air, a drama film about the launch of Air Jordan, co-starring and directed by Affleck
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2022· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was in the same drama class as Matt Damon while they were undergraduates at Harvard, and they even acted in a scene together.” Research In Progress.
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2021· 3 entries
Damon starred in Tom McCarthy's crime drama Stillwater, playing an unemployed oil rig worker from Oklahoma who sets out with a French woman to prove his convicted daughter's innocence
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So, it's millions of dollars coming in to us." Damon's Crypto.com commercial started rolling out in cinemas late in 2021, and then on television in January 2022, mainly during sports programming such as NFL games.
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And then on television in January 2022, mainly during sports programming such as NFL games
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2019· 1 entry
Damon portrayed Carroll Shelby in the action biographical drama Ford v Ferrari, directed by James Mangold
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2018· 4 entries
FactCheck.org rated the claim ““Matt Damon is moving his family to Australia because of Trump.”” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Matt Damon announced in March 2018 that he was moving his family to "a safe place" in Australia because he was fed up with President Donald Trump and his policies.” False.
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Damon apologized on The Today Show for his social commentary, saying he "should get in the back seat and close my mouth for a while"
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Buying a luxury penthouse in Brooklyn Heights for $16
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2017· 3 entries
Claimed: “Poor people pay “in some cases, up to 25 percent of (their) income for water.”” — rated Mostly True by PolitiFact.
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Damon played the lead role in Zhang Yimou's The Great Wall, a hit internationally and a disappointment at the domestic box office
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Starred in two satires, George Clooney's 1950s-set Suburbicon, released in October, and Alexander Payne's comedy Downsizing, released in December
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2015· 1 entry
Damon had the lead role, astronaut Mark Watney, in Ridley Scott's The Martian, based on Andy Weir's bestselling novel of the same name, a role that earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musica
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2014· 1 entry
Starred in George Clooney's The Monuments Men, and played the minor role of scientist Dr
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2013· 2 entries
Where Damon took over his show after "kidnapping" Kimmel for having been bumped from years of shows
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One such incident was on January 24, 2013, where Damon took over his show after "kidnapping" Kimmel for having been bumped from years of shows.
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2012· 3 entries
Damon joined Affleck and John Krasinski in hosting a fundraiser for Democratic Senate nominee Elizabeth Warren
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Damon signed a multiyear deal to be the voice of TD Ameritrade advertisements, replacing Sam Waterston as the discount brokerage's spokesman
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Damon filmed Promised Land, directed by Gus Van Sant, which Damon co-wrote with John Krasinski
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2011· 3 entries
Starred in The Adjustment Bureau, Contagion, and We Bought a Zoo
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Voiced a krill named Bill in the animated film Happy Feet Two
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And for hosting Saturday Night Live in 2019
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2010· 1 entry
Was one of the highest-grossing actors of all time, ranking 37th
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2009· 3 entries
Damon portrayed South Africa national rugby union team captain François Pienaar in the Clint Eastwood-directed film Invictus, based on the 2008 John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed
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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
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“I will go down in history... you will never meet an actor who turned down more money.”
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2007· 2 entries
Were the films Ocean's Thirteen and The Bourne Ultimatum, the third installments of their respective series
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And in 2010 was one of the highest-grossing actors of all time
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2006· 5 entries
When Damon stormed off after having his interview cut short
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Awarded Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture for The Departed (2006).
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It culminated in a planned skit on September 12, 2006, when Damon stormed off after having his interview cut short.
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Gia, born in 2008, and Stella, born in 2010
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Damon joined Robert De Niro in The Good Shepherd as a career CIA agent, and played an undercover mobster working for the Massachusetts State Police in Martin Scorsese's The Departed, a remake of the Hong Kong police thri
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2005· 1 entry
Appeared as an energy analyst in the geopolitical thriller Syriana alongside George Clooney and Jeffrey Wright
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2004· 1 entry
Included starring roles in the sequels The Bourne Supremacy and Ocean's Twelve
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2002· 1 entry
Damon began writing and starring in Gerry, a drama about two friends who forget to bring water and food when they go hiking in a desert
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2000· 1 entry
Damon, Affleck, and producers Chris Moore and Sean Bailey founded the production company LivePlanet to create the Emmy-nominated documentary series Project Greenlight, which aimed to find and fund worthwhile film project
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1999· 1 entry
“s humanity and honesty on screen despite his criminal actions. An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith”
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
When he and Ben Affleck wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting, which won them the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
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1996· 1 entry
But thought "she had handled it" because they continued to work together, and Weinstein "treated her incredibly respectfully"
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1994· 1 entry
But after a conflict with the company, they convinced Miramax to purchase the script
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1992· 1 entry
A semester (12 credits) shy of completing his Bachelor of Arts in English to feature in Geronimo: An American Legend in Los Angeles, erroneously expecting the movie to be a big success
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1988· 1 entry
Where he appeared in student theater plays, such as Burn This and A
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1970· 2 entries
Born 1970-10-08.
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The second son of Kent Telfer Damon, a stockbroker, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University
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