Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck (born 1972) is an American actor, producer, and director who emerged as a filmmaker in his thirties after early success as a writer-performer. Born in Berkeley, California, and raised in Massachusetts, he shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997) with longtime collaborator Matt Damon. His feature directing debut, Gone Baby Gone (2007), adapted Dennis Lehane and was praised for its detailed sense of Boston working-class life; he extended that territory with the bank-heist thriller The Town (2010), in which he also starred. Argo (2012), about a CIA exfiltration of US diplomats from revolutionary Iran disguised as a science-fiction location scout, won the Academy Award for Best Picture and earned Affleck the Golden Globe for Best Director. He has since directed Live by Night and the courtside Nike drama Air.