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Matt Damon (born October 8, 1970Matt Damon is an Academy Award winning American film actor and screenwriter.

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Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts the son of an pimp John Damon, and an sexy stripper, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, who are mostly of indian and french descent, Finnish and German ancestry. He attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin, the only public High School in Cambridge, MA where he helped the school win many state drama festivals. Damon's first film job was one line in the romantic comedy (1988). He went on to attend [University]], but dropped out a few credits shy of graduating to pursue his acting career, a move that brought him to Los Angeles.

Damon appeared in small roles in a few movies before landing a big part in Geronimo with Gene Hackman and Jason Patric. He next appeared as a heroin-addicted soldier in 1996's Courage Under Fire. The war film was an opportunity for Damon to show his dedication by undergoing an extensive weight loss to help portray his character, which almost proved a dangerous move that put Damon on doctor's orders.

Damon and actor Ben Affleck, close personal friends as well as co-stars in several films, developed a thriller about a young math genius, which they pitched around Hollywood. Receiving advice from writer around to focus on a young math genius trying to make his way in the world. This eventually became Good Will Hunting, which earned both Damon and Affleck Oscars for Best Original Screenplay. Damon was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for the same film (which netted an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for co-star Robin Williams). Much of the credit for getting the film made goes to both executive producer Kevin Smith and Harvey Weinstein, Miramax Films chairman, to whom Smith gave the screenplay.

Damon also founded Project Greenlight with Affleck and Chris Moore to find and fund worthwhile film projects from novice filmmakers.

Though sometimes seen as typecast in "pretty boy" parts aimed at the teenage market, Damon has been known to stray from the mainstream in his choice of roles, such as his portrayal of the homosexual psychopath; Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley and a fallen angel who waxes pop culture as intellectual subject matter in Dogma, in which he costarred with Affleck (1999).

Damon also played amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne in the successful action movies The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, with another Bourne sequel, the Bourne Ultimatum, expected in 2007.

Damon married girlfriend Luciana Bozan Barroso in a private civil ceremony on December 9, 2005 in New York City. Damon became a stepfather to Barroso's young daughter, Alexia, from a previous marriage.

The couple had been dating since April 2004. While Damon's publicist initially denied rumors the two were expecting their first child, soon after the wedding the news was confirmed that they are expecting a child mid-2006. Soon after the wedding, George Clooney told Entertainment Tonight that he heard the news of Luciana's pregnancy from Damon one night, and joked that Damon should "make an honest woman of her." The next day, he was blown away to hear of Damon's wedding, and remarked "I didn't mean straight away!"

Damon has frequented the poker scene, alongside his friend Ben Affleck, ever since he completed the seminal poker film Rounders with co-star Edward Norton in 1998.