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{{Infobox actor| name = Ben Affleck| image = Ben Affleck.jpg| imagesize = 200px| caption = Ben Affleck| birthname = Benjamin Géza Affleck| birthdate = | location = Berkeley, California, California, United States| othername =| homepage =| notable role = Shannon Hamilton in Mallrats
Holden McNeil in
Chasing Amy/Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Chuckie Sullivan in
Good Will Hunting
A.J. Frost in
Armageddon (film)
Matt Murdock in
Daredevil (film)
George Reeves in
Hollywoodland] (2005 - present) 1 child| children = Violet Anne Affleck| academyawards = Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay
1998 Good Will Hunting]
1998 Good Will Hunting Best Supporting Actor (nomination)
2007 Hollywoodland]
2006 Hollywoodland]
2003 Daredevil ; Gigli ; Paycheck
Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple
2003 Gigli
with Jennifer Lopez]
1998 Shakespeare in Love]
2006 Hollywoodland-->Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15 1972) is an United States Golden Globe Award-nominated film actor, director, an Academy Awards-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter. He became known in the late 1990s, after his involvement in the film Good Will Hunting, and has since become a Hollywood leading man, having starred in several big budget films.

Biography Early life Affleck was born Benjamin Géza AffleckAccording to the State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. At Ancestry.com in Berkeley, California, California to father Timothy Affleck, a social worker and drug rehab counselor, and mother Chris Boldt, a school teacher. Boldt attended Harvard University and taught at Brearley School.http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=254868 The family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts when Ben was very young. Affleck's ancestry is Irish and Scottish;{{cite web]. At the age of eight, Affleck met ten-year-old Matt Damon, who lived two blocks away. Affleck and Damon would later attend Cambridge Rindge and Latin together, although they were in different year groups. Affleck attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, as well as the University of Vermont.

Career Affleck worked as a child actor, appearing on the PBS kids' series The Voyage of the Mimi and in several made-for-television movies. Throughout the 1990s, Affleck had a role in LifeStories: Families in Crisis as a steroid abusing athlete as well as several notable films, including 1992's School Ties (with Matt Damon and Brendan Fraser), 1993 in film's Dazed and Confused (film), 1995 in film's Mallrats and 1997's Chasing Amy; Mallrats and Amy began his collaboration with writer/director Kevin Smith. Affleck has appeared in every film Smith has made with the exception of Smith's first film, Clerks.

Affleck had a one-line speaking role as a high school basketball player in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film) movie. He and fellow Boston Red Sox fanatic Matt Damon had roles as extras in the movie Field of Dreams when charcters played by Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones go to Fenway Park.

Affleck came to national attention working with best-friend Damon in Good Will Hunting (1997 in film). They shared credit and both received the Academy Awards for Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay. Along with Damon and producers Chris Moore (film producer) and Sean Bailey, Affleck founded the production company LivePlanet, through which the four created the documentary series Project Greenlight, as well as the failed mystery-hybrid series Push, Nevada amongst other projects. Project Greenlight was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program in 2002, 2004 and 2005.

Following Good Will Hunting, Affleck had starring roles in many successful movies, including Armageddon (film), Forces of Nature, Pearl Harbor (film), Changing Lanes, The Sum of All Fears (film) and Daredevil (film), establishing himself as a Hollywood leading man throughout the early 2000s. However, after the release of several critically panned, box office flops, including Gigli (film) (2003 in film) and Surviving Christmas (2004 in film), Affleck's career waned considerably. He did not appear in any films until 2006 when he appeared in Clerks II.

In addition to being a fan of the Daredevil (Marvel Comics) comics (Frank Miller (comics)'s run specifically), he wrote the introduction to the trade paperback Daredevil: Guardian Devil which reprints Daredevil (Volume 2) #1–8 (written by Kevin Smith).

Affleck made what can be considered a comeback with the September 2006 release of the critically acclaimed George Reeves biopic-film noir Hollywoodland, directed by HBO TV-series veteran Allen Coulter. His performance was impressive enough that he was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival and has also won the Supporting Actor of the Year award at the Hollywood Film Festival{{cite news], 2006 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture. Affleck recently completed directing his third film, [Gone, Baby, Gone, for which he also co-wrote the screenplay, about two Boston area detectives investigating a little girl's kidnapping and how it affects their lives. Based on the book by Dennis Lehane, it is in post-production and scheduled for a 2007 release starring Affleck's brother, Casey.

Personal life Affleck had a high-profile romance with actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 1998, following her breakup with actor Brad Pitt. In 2002, he began dating actress/singer Jennifer Lopez, whom he had met prior to filming Gigli (film). The same year, his engagement to Lopez was announced, and the relationship between the two received a lot of attention by the entertainment media who dubbed the couple "Bennifer". The couple broke up in 2004, both blaming the media attention - including an alleged incident in which Affleck partied with Christian Slater and some lap dancers in Vancouver.{{cite web], which also was a box office failure.

Affleck subsequently dated his Daredevil (film) co-star, actress Jennifer Garner, and the two were engaged after nine months of seeing each other. In May 2005, it was announced that Garner was pregnancy and the couple were married on June 29, 2005 on the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos Islands. Garner gave birth to a daughter, Violet Anne Affleck, on December 1, 2005 in Los Angeles, California. The couple currently live in Brentwood, Los Angeles, Californiahttp://men.style.com/details/features/full?id=content_5963 and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Affleck has a holiday home in Savannah, Georgia.

Affleck was treated for a migraine at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 30, 2006. The family were in Cambridge for the summer while Affleck was directing Gone, Baby, Gone.{{cite web], 2006 player, regularly entering local events. He has been tutored by poker professionals [Amir Vahedi and Annie Duke, and won the California State Poker Championship on June 20, 2004, taking home the first prize of $356,000, which qualified him for the 2004 World Poker Tour final tournament. Affleck is a fan of the Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots.

Affleck supports a non-profit organization called the A-T Childrens Project.{{Citation] (A-T). Affleck has attended benefits and spoken to Congress to advocate for the A-T Childrens Project. The disease, described as like having muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis, immune deficiency and cancer all at once, is progressive; children with A-T usually do not live beyond their late teens. In 2007, Affleck was the keynote speaker at the Graduation Ceremony for Falls Church High School at the GMU Patriot Center. Of his best friend and graduating senior Joe Kindregan, Affleck mentions that though Kindregan is bound to a wheelchair, through his perseverance he has taught Affleck, "How to stand."

Political activism In the final weeks of the United States presidential election, 2000, Affleck promoted the Democratic Party (United States) ticket, supporting Al Gore and repeatedly delivering a get-out-the-vote plea: "It's very important to vote. The president will appoint three or four Supreme Court of the United States justices."

During the final week of the race, Affleck spoke on behalf of Gore in California, Florida, and Pennsylvania. During a stop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the star — along with Helen Hunt, Martin Sheen, Rob Reiner and other actors — spent an hour at a phone bank calling registered Democrats. "People in my generation have a low voter turnout. One of the reasons that I'm here is to demonstrate that no matter who you are going to vote for... I think it's important to get involved and get out and vote," Affleck told reporters. "But I'm going to tell people to vote for Gore."

On October 28, 2000, Affleck flew with Hillary Clinton, who was running for a U.S. Senate seat, to Ithaca, New York, where he introduced her at a Cornell University rally. Affleck told the college crowd that Clinton had been advocating for women and working families since "Rick Lazio was running around the frat house in his underwear". Lazio, then a Long Island congressman, was Clinton's Republican Party (United States) opponent.

On November 6, 2000, the final day of the campaign, Affleck was one of several high-profile celebrities summoned to Miami Beach, Florida by Miramax Films boss Harvey Weinstein for a late-night Gore rally, just hours before polls opened nationwide. The Gore campaign's last event, a final effort to energize South Beach voters, did not end until about 1:00 a.m., but Affleck flew back to New York that morning and made a surprise live appearance on The Rosie O'Donnell Show. It was 10:15 a.m. when he made his final public pitch from a Rockefeller Center studio, noting that he was "a little bit tired... I've been out getting involved, doing stuff and trying to get people to vote. And that's why I came by here". Also, "Today is the get-out-the-vote day and...I think this is the time to get involved, especially the young folks who are here ... I'm about to go vote," He then said, "I am personally gonna vote for Al Gore".

As votes were tallied that night, Affleck told Salon.com's Amy Reiter, "I'm nervous this evening, but one of the things that's exciting to me is the amount of people who voted. No matter who wins, I think it's a healthy thing for our country that so many voters have come out and participated in the process. Either way, I think the most important number will be the turnout". However, as The Smoking Gun later discovered, Affleck himself did not vote that day.{{cite web], Affleck said, "My fantasy is that someday I'm independently wealthy enough that I'm not beholden to anybody, so I can run for Congress on the grounds that everyday people — be they singers or poets or bankers or lawyers or teachers — should be in government". In the March 2003 issue of Vanity Fair (magazine), Affleck again proposes the possibility of a future run for Congress. "I think there's a real nobility to public service... It would be fun to run on a platform I really believed in, without being beholden to the win-at-all-costs mentality".

In 2004, Affleck actively campaigned for Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. During the first day of the Democratic Convention, Affleck was featured on Larry King Live with Tucker Carlson and Al Sharpton. Larry King asked Affleck if he would consider running for office, and Affleck admitted to contemplating the proposition. Specific attention focused on whether he would run for Kerry's open Senate seat (as Affleck was from Massachusetts). He noted that the line between politics and entertainment is becoming increasingly blurred, as political figures Ronald Reagan, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, both came from the entertainment business, although both were members of the Republican Party (United States).

He appeared in a print ad with his openly gay cousin, Jason, in support of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.{{Cite web]." He has, however, never suggested that he himself is bisexual.The Bisexual's Guide to the Universe by Nicole Kristal & Mike Szymanski. Alyson Publications Inc. ISBN 155583650X

As a Democrat, Affleck has spoken diplomatically of George W. Bush as a person in an interview with Bill O'Reilly (commentator) (July 27, 2004), saying, "I had the pleasure of and the honor of meeting the President of the United States at the Daytona 500. I found him to be a collegial, affable, kind guy." He went on to say Bush "is a patriot and he’s a man who believes in the country. He's trying to further an agenda he believes in. I happen to disagree with most of his policies, but I respect the man."

Affleck in popular culture

• Affleck was mentioned in "I'll Sue Ya" on "Weird Al" Yankovic's CD, Straight Outta Lynwood: "I'll sue Ben Affleck...... aw, do I even need a reason?"

• On Will & Grace, after the character Jack has his voice dubbed over in his most recent TV series, he explains to Josh Lucas that Lucas is Matt Damon and that he's "Ben Affleck in Gigli...or Paycheck (film)...or Bounce (film)...or Jersey Girl...or Surviving Christmas." This is a joke on how many films he has had bomb.

• Affleck appears to embrace some of his failed movies; in Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Affleck is seen alongside Damon on the fictitious set of Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season, where Damon mocks the failure of Affleck's Reindeer Games while the two discuss their movie choices.

• Affleck has been prominent in two South Park episodes. In "How to Eat with Your Butt", Affleck was found to be the missing child of a couple suffering from a facial deformity in which their heads were encased in buttocks. In "Fat Butt and Pancake Head", Affleck was portrayed as Jennifer Lopez boyfriend, until he left her for Eric Cartman's hand puppet, also named Jennifer Lopez.

• Affleck is a favorite target of Mike Nelson's RiffTrax.

• Affleck has also been parodied on Family Guy episode Fast Times at Buddy Cianci, Jr. High, in a flashback scene in which he was lying on the couch while Damon wrote Good Will Hunting, with the joke that he contributed nothing to the script, and added his name only after adding a word to a sentence.

• Affleck is mentioned in The Simpsons episode "See Homer Run", saying that he ran most of Homer's political campaign.

• In the movie Team America: World Police, Affleck is mentioned in a song when the vocalist makes a joke about how he needs his girlfriend more than Affleck needs acting school.

• In the video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, one of the first tasks the player must complete in Hollywood is performing a kickflip over a "lame" actor named Ben Whofleck. This is later confirmed as a takeoff on Affleck, as an NPC comments that Whofleck "sucked in Pearl Harbor (film)".

Filmography {| class="wikitable"|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes|-| 1984 in film || The Voyage of the Mimi || C.T. Granville |||-1991 in film Daddy || [Dazed and Confused (film) || Fred O'Bannion |||-| 1995 in film || Mallrats ] || Glory Daze ] || Good Will Hunting ] || Holden McNeil |||-| Going All the Way ] || Shakespeare in Love ] |||-| Armageddon (film) || A.J. Frost |||-| Phantoms (novel) || Sheriff Bryce Hammond |||-|rowspan="3"| 1999 in film || Dogma (film) || Bartleby |||-| Forces of Nature ] || Bartender |||-|rowspan="3"| 2000 in film || Bounce (film) || Buddy Amaral |||-| Reindeer Games ] || Jim Young |||-|rowspan="2"| 2001 in film || Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back ] || Captain Rafe McCawley |||-|rowspan="2"| 2002 in film || The Sum of All Fears (film) || Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy) |||-| Changing Lanes ] || Paycheck (film) || Michael Jennings |||-| Gigli ] || Daredevil (Marvel Comics) |||-|rowspan="2"| 2004 in film || Surviving Christmas ] || Ollie Trinke |||-|2005 in film || Elektra (2005 film) || Daredevil (Marvel Comics) || (Scene Cut)|-|rowspan="3"| 2006 in film || Clerks II ] || George Reeves ] || Jack Giamoro |||-|rowspan="2"| 2007 in film || Gone Baby Gone ] || Jack Dupree|||-| 2008 in film || He's Just Not That Into You || |||}

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{{Infobox actor| name = Ben Affleck| image = Ben Affleck.jpg| imagesize = 200px| caption = Ben Affleck| birthname = Benjamin Géza Affleck| birthdate = | location = Berkeley, California, California, United States| othername =| homepage =| notable role = Shannon Hamilton in Mallrats
Holden McNeil in
Chasing Amy/Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Chuckie Sullivan in
Good Will Hunting
A.J. Frost in
Armageddon (film)
Matt Murdock in
Daredevil (film)
George Reeves in
Hollywoodland] (2005 - present) 1 child| children = Violet Anne Affleck| academyawards = Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay
1998 Good Will Hunting]
1998 Good Will Hunting Best Supporting Actor (nomination)
2007 Hollywoodland]
2006 Hollywoodland]
2003 Daredevil ; Gigli ; Paycheck
Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple
2003 Gigli
with Jennifer Lopez]
1998 Shakespeare in Love]
2006 Hollywoodland-->Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15 1972) is an United States Golden Globe Award-nominated film actor, director, an Academy Awards-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter. He became known in the late 1990s, after his involvement in the film Good Will Hunting, and has since become a Hollywood leading man, having starred in several big budget films.

Biography Early life Affleck was born Benjamin Géza AffleckAccording to the State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. At Ancestry.com in Berkeley, California, California to father Timothy Affleck, a social worker and drug rehab counselor, and mother Chris Boldt, a school teacher. Boldt attended Harvard University and taught at Brearley School.http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=254868 The family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts when Ben was very young. Affleck's ancestry is Irish and Scottish;{{cite web]. At the age of eight, Affleck met ten-year-old Matt Damon, who lived two blocks away. Affleck and Damon would later attend Cambridge Rindge and Latin together, although they were in different year groups. Affleck attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, as well as the University of Vermont.

Career Affleck worked as a child actor, appearing on the PBS kids' series The Voyage of the Mimi and in several made-for-television movies. Throughout the 1990s, Affleck had a role in LifeStories: Families in Crisis as a steroid abusing athlete as well as several notable films, including 1992's School Ties (with Matt Damon and Brendan Fraser), 1993 in film's Dazed and Confused (film), 1995 in film's Mallrats and 1997's Chasing Amy; Mallrats and Amy began his collaboration with writer/director Kevin Smith. Affleck has appeared in every film Smith has made with the exception of Smith's first film, Clerks.

Affleck had a one-line speaking role as a high school basketball player in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film) movie. He and fellow Boston Red Sox fanatic Matt Damon had roles as extras in the movie Field of Dreams when charcters played by Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones go to Fenway Park.

Affleck came to national attention working with best-friend Damon in Good Will Hunting (1997 in film). They shared credit and both received the Academy Awards for Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay. Along with Damon and producers Chris Moore (film producer) and Sean Bailey, Affleck founded the production company LivePlanet, through which the four created the documentary series Project Greenlight, as well as the failed mystery-hybrid series Push, Nevada amongst other projects. Project Greenlight was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program in 2002, 2004 and 2005.

Following Good Will Hunting, Affleck had starring roles in many successful movies, including Armageddon (film), Forces of Nature, Pearl Harbor (film), Changing Lanes, The Sum of All Fears (film) and Daredevil (film), establishing himself as a Hollywood leading man throughout the early 2000s. However, after the release of several critically panned, box office flops, including Gigli (film) (2003 in film) and Surviving Christmas (2004 in film), Affleck's career waned considerably. He did not appear in any films until 2006 when he appeared in Clerks II.

In addition to being a fan of the Daredevil (Marvel Comics) comics (Frank Miller (comics)'s run specifically), he wrote the introduction to the trade paperback Daredevil: Guardian Devil which reprints Daredevil (Volume 2) #1–8 (written by Kevin Smith).

Affleck made what can be considered a comeback with the September 2006 release of the critically acclaimed George Reeves biopic-film noir Hollywoodland, directed by HBO TV-series veteran Allen Coulter. His performance was impressive enough that he was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival and has also won the Supporting Actor of the Year award at the Hollywood Film Festival{{cite news], 2006 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture. Affleck recently completed directing his third film, [Gone, Baby, Gone, for which he also co-wrote the screenplay, about two Boston area detectives investigating a little girl's kidnapping and how it affects their lives. Based on the book by Dennis Lehane, it is in post-production and scheduled for a 2007 release starring Affleck's brother, Casey.

Personal life Affleck had a high-profile romance with actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 1998, following her breakup with actor Brad Pitt. In 2002, he began dating actress/singer Jennifer Lopez, whom he had met prior to filming Gigli (film). The same year, his engagement to Lopez was announced, and the relationship between the two received a lot of attention by the entertainment media who dubbed the couple "Bennifer". The couple broke up in 2004, both blaming the media attention - including an alleged incident in which Affleck partied with Christian Slater and some lap dancers in Vancouver.{{cite web], which also was a box office failure.

Affleck subsequently dated his Daredevil (film) co-star, actress Jennifer Garner, and the two were engaged after nine months of seeing each other. In May 2005, it was announced that Garner was pregnancy and the couple were married on June 29, 2005 on the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos Islands. Garner gave birth to a daughter, Violet Anne Affleck, on December 1, 2005 in Los Angeles, California. The couple currently live in Brentwood, Los Angeles, Californiahttp://men.style.com/details/features/full?id=content_5963 and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Affleck has a holiday home in Savannah, Georgia.

Affleck was treated for a migraine at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 30, 2006. The family were in Cambridge for the summer while Affleck was directing Gone, Baby, Gone.{{cite web], 2006 player, regularly entering local events. He has been tutored by poker professionals [Amir Vahedi and Annie Duke, and won the California State Poker Championship on June 20, 2004, taking home the first prize of $356,000, which qualified him for the 2004 World Poker Tour final tournament. Affleck is a fan of the Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots.

Affleck supports a non-profit organization called the A-T Childrens Project.{{Citation] (A-T). Affleck has attended benefits and spoken to Congress to advocate for the A-T Childrens Project. The disease, described as like having muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis, immune deficiency and cancer all at once, is progressive; children with A-T usually do not live beyond their late teens. In 2007, Affleck was the keynote speaker at the Graduation Ceremony for Falls Church High School at the GMU Patriot Center. Of his best friend and graduating senior Joe Kindregan, Affleck mentions that though Kindregan is bound to a wheelchair, through his perseverance he has taught Affleck, "How to stand."

Political activism In the final weeks of the United States presidential election, 2000, Affleck promoted the Democratic Party (United States) ticket, supporting Al Gore and repeatedly delivering a get-out-the-vote plea: "It's very important to vote. The president will appoint three or four Supreme Court of the United States justices."

During the final week of the race, Affleck spoke on behalf of Gore in California, Florida, and Pennsylvania. During a stop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the star — along with Helen Hunt, Martin Sheen, Rob Reiner and other actors — spent an hour at a phone bank calling registered Democrats. "People in my generation have a low voter turnout. One of the reasons that I'm here is to demonstrate that no matter who you are going to vote for... I think it's important to get involved and get out and vote," Affleck told reporters. "But I'm going to tell people to vote for Gore."

On October 28, 2000, Affleck flew with Hillary Clinton, who was running for a U.S. Senate seat, to Ithaca, New York, where he introduced her at a Cornell University rally. Affleck told the college crowd that Clinton had been advocating for women and working families since "Rick Lazio was running around the frat house in his underwear". Lazio, then a Long Island congressman, was Clinton's Republican Party (United States) opponent.

On November 6, 2000, the final day of the campaign, Affleck was one of several high-profile celebrities summoned to Miami Beach, Florida by Miramax Films boss Harvey Weinstein for a late-night Gore rally, just hours before polls opened nationwide. The Gore campaign's last event, a final effort to energize South Beach voters, did not end until about 1:00 a.m., but Affleck flew back to New York that morning and made a surprise live appearance on The Rosie O'Donnell Show. It was 10:15 a.m. when he made his final public pitch from a Rockefeller Center studio, noting that he was "a little bit tired... I've been out getting involved, doing stuff and trying to get people to vote. And that's why I came by here". Also, "Today is the get-out-the-vote day and...I think this is the time to get involved, especially the young folks who are here ... I'm about to go vote," He then said, "I am personally gonna vote for Al Gore".

As votes were tallied that night, Affleck told Salon.com's Amy Reiter, "I'm nervous this evening, but one of the things that's exciting to me is the amount of people who voted. No matter who wins, I think it's a healthy thing for our country that so many voters have come out and participated in the process. Either way, I think the most important number will be the turnout". However, as The Smoking Gun later discovered, Affleck himself did not vote that day.{{cite web], Affleck said, "My fantasy is that someday I'm independently wealthy enough that I'm not beholden to anybody, so I can run for Congress on the grounds that everyday people — be they singers or poets or bankers or lawyers or teachers — should be in government". In the March 2003 issue of Vanity Fair (magazine), Affleck again proposes the possibility of a future run for Congress. "I think there's a real nobility to public service... It would be fun to run on a platform I really believed in, without being beholden to the win-at-all-costs mentality".

In 2004, Affleck actively campaigned for Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. During the first day of the Democratic Convention, Affleck was featured on Larry King Live with Tucker Carlson and Al Sharpton. Larry King asked Affleck if he would consider running for office, and Affleck admitted to contemplating the proposition. Specific attention focused on whether he would run for Kerry's open Senate seat (as Affleck was from Massachusetts). He noted that the line between politics and entertainment is becoming increasingly blurred, as political figures Ronald Reagan, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, both came from the entertainment business, although both were members of the Republican Party (United States).

He appeared in a print ad with his openly gay cousin, Jason, in support of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.{{Cite web]." He has, however, never suggested that he himself is bisexual.The Bisexual's Guide to the Universe by Nicole Kristal & Mike Szymanski. Alyson Publications Inc. ISBN 155583650X

As a Democrat, Affleck has spoken diplomatically of George W. Bush as a person in an interview with Bill O'Reilly (commentator) (July 27, 2004), saying, "I had the pleasure of and the honor of meeting the President of the United States at the Daytona 500. I found him to be a collegial, affable, kind guy." He went on to say Bush "is a patriot and he’s a man who believes in the country. He's trying to further an agenda he believes in. I happen to disagree with most of his policies, but I respect the man."

Affleck in popular culture

• Affleck was mentioned in "I'll Sue Ya" on "Weird Al" Yankovic's CD, Straight Outta Lynwood: "I'll sue Ben Affleck...... aw, do I even need a reason?"

• On Will & Grace, after the character Jack has his voice dubbed over in his most recent TV series, he explains to Josh Lucas that Lucas is Matt Damon and that he's "Ben Affleck in Gigli...or Paycheck (film)...or Bounce (film)...or Jersey Girl...or Surviving Christmas." This is a joke on how many films he has had bomb.

• Affleck appears to embrace some of his failed movies; in Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Affleck is seen alongside Damon on the fictitious set of Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season, where Damon mocks the failure of Affleck's Reindeer Games while the two discuss their movie choices.

• Affleck has been prominent in two South Park episodes. In "How to Eat with Your Butt", Affleck was found to be the missing child of a couple suffering from a facial deformity in which their heads were encased in buttocks. In "Fat Butt and Pancake Head", Affleck was portrayed as Jennifer Lopez boyfriend, until he left her for Eric Cartman's hand puppet, also named Jennifer Lopez.

• Affleck is a favorite target of Mike Nelson's RiffTrax.

• Affleck has also been parodied on Family Guy episode Fast Times at Buddy Cianci, Jr. High, in a flashback scene in which he was lying on the couch while Damon wrote Good Will Hunting, with the joke that he contributed nothing to the script, and added his name only after adding a word to a sentence.

• Affleck is mentioned in The Simpsons episode "See Homer Run", saying that he ran most of Homer's political campaign.

• In the movie Team America: World Police, Affleck is mentioned in a song when the vocalist makes a joke about how he needs his girlfriend more than Affleck needs acting school.

• In the video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, one of the first tasks the player must complete in Hollywood is performing a kickflip over a "lame" actor named Ben Whofleck. This is later confirmed as a takeoff on Affleck, as an NPC comments that Whofleck "sucked in Pearl Harbor (film)".

Filmography {| class="wikitable"|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes|-| 1984 in film || The Voyage of the Mimi || C.T. Granville |||-1991 in film Daddy || [Dazed and Confused (film) || Fred O'Bannion |||-| 1995 in film || Mallrats ] || Glory Daze ] || Good Will Hunting ] || Holden McNeil |||-| Going All the Way ] || Shakespeare in Love ] |||-| Armageddon (film) || A.J. Frost |||-| Phantoms (novel) || Sheriff Bryce Hammond |||-|rowspan="3"| 1999 in film || Dogma (film) || Bartleby |||-| Forces of Nature ] || Bartender |||-|rowspan="3"| 2000 in film || Bounce (film) || Buddy Amaral |||-| Reindeer Games ] || Jim Young |||-|rowspan="2"| 2001 in film || Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back ] || Captain Rafe McCawley |||-|rowspan="2"| 2002 in film || The Sum of All Fears (film) || Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy) |||-| Changing Lanes ] || Paycheck (film) || Michael Jennings |||-| Gigli ] || Daredevil (Marvel Comics) |||-|rowspan="2"| 2004 in film || Surviving Christmas ] || Ollie Trinke |||-|2005 in film || Elektra (2005 film) || Daredevil (Marvel Comics) || (Scene Cut)|-|rowspan="3"| 2006 in film || Clerks II ] || George Reeves ] || Jack Giamoro |||-|rowspan="2"| 2007 in film || Gone Baby Gone ] || Jack Dupree|||-| 2008 in film || He's Just Not That Into You || |||}

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