Background[]
Filmography[]
- The Dark End of the Street (1981)
- The Voyage of the Mimi (1984)
- ABC Afterschool Specials (1986) 1 episode
- Hands of a Stranger (1987)
- The Second Voyage of the Mimi (1988)
- Daddy (1991)
- School Ties (1992)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
- Dazed and Confused (1993)
- Against the Grain (1993) 8 episodes
- Lifestories: Families in Crisis (1994) 1 episode
- Mallrats (1995)
- Glory Daze (1996)
- Chasing Amy (1997)
- Going All the Way (1997)
- Good Will Hunting (1997)
- Shakespeare in Love (1998)
- Armageddon (1998)
- Phantoms (1998)
- Dogma (1999)
- Forces of Nature (1999)
- 200 Cigarettes (1999)
- Bounce (2000)
- Reindeer Games (2000)
- Boiler Room (2000)
- Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
- Daddy and Them (2001)
- Pearl Harbor (2001)
- The Sum of All Fears (2002)
- Changing Lanes (2002)
- The Third Wheel (2002)
- Daredevil (2003)
- Gigli (2003)
- Paycheck (2003)
- Surviving Christmas (2004)
- Jersey Girl (2004)
- Clerks II (2006)
- Man About Town (2006)
- Hollywoodland (2006)
- Smokin' Aces (2006)
- He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
- State of Play (2009)
- Extract (2009)
- Curb Your Enthusiasm (2009) 1 episode
- The Company Men (2010)
- The Town (2010)
- Argo (2012)
- To the Wonder (2012)
- Runner, Runner (2013)
- Gone Girl (2014)
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
- Suicide Squad (2016)
- Live by Night (2016)
- The Accountant (2016)
- Justice League (2017)
- Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019)
- The Last Duel (2021)
- Deep Water (2022)
- Clerks III (2022)
- Air (2023)
- Hypnotic (2023)
- The Flash (2023)
- This Is Me...Now: A Love Story (2024)
Trivia[]
- Older brother of actor Casey Affleck.
- Owns vintage Ms. Pac-Man and Millipede video-arcade games.
- He was accidentally knocked unconscious by football player Dana Stubblefield during the filming of Reindeer Games (2000).
- Auditioned for Corey Haim's part in License to Drive (1988).
- Ranked #77 in Premiere's 2002 annual Power 100 List.
- Named People Magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" (2002)
- Ranked #41 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List.
- When he was dating Jennifer Lopez, hated the paparazzi referring to them as "Bennifer."
- His father was at one time a janitor at Harvard University, the inspiration for Will Hunting's job at MIT in Good Will Hunting (1997).
- Has a fear of flying.
- Turned down the part of Bobby Mercer in Four Brothers (2005), as he found the script to be "ultra-violent". The part eventually went to Mark Wahlberg.
- Was considered for the role of Billy Loomis in Scream (1996).
- Majored in Middle Eastern affairs in college.
- As a teenager, he lived in Mexico where he learned to speak Spanish.
- At forty years old, he is the oldest actor to be cast in the role of Batman.
- He is the tallest actor to play Batman and is in fact an inch and half taller than the version seen in the comics who stands at six-feet two inches tall.
- Began an intense two-hour a day workout regime the day after he was cast as Batman.
- In his film Jersey Girl (2004), Affleck refers to his transportation as "The Batmobile."
- Received a lifetime ban from playing blackjack at Las Vegas' Hard Rock Casino due to his card counting skills.
Quotes[]
- I feel like fame is wasted on me.
- Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
- I've finally learnt how to say, "No comment". To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
- You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.
- I'm always described as "cocksure" or "with a swagger", and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
- I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
- I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol.
- Having a family makes things you have that much richer. It's much nicer to share it with the people you love.
- I went to rehab when I was 29 and partying too much and not having a lot of boundaries and to clear my head and try to get some idea of who I wanted to be, It was more a 'let me get myself straight, before it became a rite of passage.