Matthew Paige Damon (natural October 8, 1970) is an American film actor and screenwriter. He was natural inside Cambridge, Massachusetts where he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin, and helped a school to win numbers of state drama festivals. Damon's number a single film job was one line in the romanticist comedy Mystic Pizza (1988). He went in to attend Harvard University, but dropped out two or three credits shy of graduating to pursue his acting career, the move that brought him bent on Los Angeles. He, Ben Affleck, Rory Cochrane, and Matthew McConaughey are good friends.

Damon appeared inside microscopic roles withinside two or three motion picture prior to landing the large a portion in Geronimo by owning Gene Hackman and Jason Patric. He next appeared as a heroin-addicted soldier in 1996's Courage Under Fire. the war film was an chance for Damin to show his dedication by undergoing an extensive weight loss to help portray his character, which most proved a deadly move that put Damon on doctor's orders.

Damon & Affleck concocted the story all about the CIA espionage thriller about the immature math genius, which they pitched around town. Getting advice from either writer/director/actor Rob Reiner and screenwriter William Goldman, the two changed the script as much as to focus in a immature maths genius trying to produce his way in the globe. This yet became Good Will Hunting, which earned both Damon & Affleck Oscars for Best Original Screenplay and sent their careers into overdrive. He was as well nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same film (that netted an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for co-star Robin Williams. Good deal of the credit attend each director Kevin Smith and Harvey Weinstein, Miramax Films chairman, whom Smith gave the screenplay to.

He founded Project Greenlight with Affleck to find & fund worthwhile film projects from either novice filmmakers.

Though every now and again seen when typecast in "pretty boy" area aimed at a adolescent market, Damon has been known to stray from either a mainstream around his selection of roles, like his portrayal of homosexual sociopath 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 was likewise played amnesiac spy Jason Bourne in the successful action movies The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, with the third sequel expected in 2007.

Selected filmography
Mystic Pizza (1988) School Ties (1992) Courage Under Fire (1996) Glory Daze (1996) Chasing Amy (1997) The Rainmaker (1997) Good Will Hunting (1997) (also writer) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Rounders (1998) Dogma (1999) The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Titan A.E. (2000) (voice) The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) All the Pretty Horses (2000) Finding Forrester (2000) Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) (Cameo) ''Ocean's Eleven (2001) The Majestic (2001) (voice only) Gerry (2002) (also writer) Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) (voice) The Bourne Identity (2002) Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) (Cameo) Stuck On You (2003) EuroTrip (2004) Jersey Girl (2004) (Cameo) The Bourne Supremacy (2004) Ocean's Twelve (2004) The Brothers Grimm (2005) Syriana (2005) (currently inside post-production) The Good Shepherd (2006) The Departed (2006) (currently wrapping) The Bourne Ultimatum'' (2007) (currently announced run of production)