Matt Damon
American actor · United States · On the map · Actors · Born 1970 · age 56
He co-wrote his breakthrough at 27 with his childhood friend, won an Oscar for the script, then spent two decades as one of Hollywood's most reliable leading men - the amnesiac spy, the stranded astronaut, the con artist in the heist crew.
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AnimalsFilm, 2026Producer2024
IFFilm, Flower (voice)2022
The Gilded AgeSeries, High Society Gentleman (uncredited)
Thor: Love and ThunderFilm, 2022Actor Loki2019
Ford v FerrariFilm, Carroll Shelby2018
Deadpool 2Film, Redneck #22016
Jason BourneFilm, Producer2015
Hot OnesSeries2014
InterstellarFilm, Mann2011
ContagionFilm, Mitch Emhoff2010
ConanSeries2009
InvictusFilm, Francois Pienaar2007Star on Hollywood Walk of FameAward2006Satellite Award for Best Cast - Motion PictureAward
30 RockSeries, 2006Carol Burnett
The DepartedFilm, 2006Colin2005
The Brothers GrimmFilm, Wilhelm Grimm2004
EntourageSeries, Matt Damon2002
Spirit: Stallion of the CimarronFilm, Spirit (voice)2001
Law & Order: Criminal IntentSeries, Matt Damon (voice)1999
DogmaFilm, Loki1998Academy Award for Best Writing, Original ScreenplayAward1997
The ViewSeries
Good Will HuntingFilm, 1997Writer1993
Late Night with Conan O'BrienSeries1975
Saturday Night LiveSeries1970Born8 October 1970People around Matt
Ben Affleck Matt produced The Last Duel and The Accountant 2
George Clooney Directed Monuments Men (2014)
Steven Soderbergh Directed Ocean's Eleven and Contagion
Casey Affleck Also in Interstellar and Good Will Hunting
Gus Van Sant Directed Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrester
Kevin Smith Directed Dogma, Chasing Amy and Jersey Girl
Paul Greengrass Directed The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Frank Marshall Produced The Bourne Identity (2002)
Jerry Weintraub Produced Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve
Scott Mosier Produced Dogma and Chasing Amy
Doug Liman Directed The Bourne Identity and The Instigators
Chris Moore Produced The Adjustment Bureau and Promised Land
Steven Spielberg Produced True Grit and Hereafter
Brad Pitt Also in Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve
Christopher Nolan Directed Interstellar and Oppenheimer
Francis Ford Coppola Produced The Good Shepherd (2007)
Emma Thomas Produced Interstellar and Oppenheimer
Tony Gilroy Wrote The Bourne Identity (2002)
Charles Roven Produced Oppenheimer and The Brothers Grimm
Don Cheadle Also in Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve
Julia Stiles Also in The Bourne Identity (2002)
Kevin J. Walsh Produced The Last Duel and The Instigators
Harvey Weinstein Produced Jersey Girl and Good Will Hunting
Simon Kinberg Produced Deadpool 2 and Elysium
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Interstellar 2014
The Departed 2006
Saving Private Ryan 1998
Good Will Hunting 1997
The Odyssey 2026
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
226 credits on file
Television 24
Media & music
Photos 10
Damon during filming for The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1999
Damon in 2001
Damon attending an event for The Bourne Ultimatum in 2007
Damon attending an event for The Informant! at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival
Damon at the French premiere of The Monuments Men in 2014
Damon with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti in 2008
Damon with his wife Luciana Bozán at the 2009 Venice International Film FestivalAwards
About this person
Matthew Paige Damon debuted in Mystic Pizza in 1988, but 1997 changed everything: he and Ben Affleck wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting, taking home the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay. He built a career on versatility - Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1999, Jason Bourne across the franchise from 2002 to 2016, Linus Caldwell in the Ocean's trilogy. In 2015 he earned another Oscar nomination and won the Golden Globe for Best Actor playing an astronaut stranded on Mars in The Martian. The résumé runs deep: Saving Private Ryan, The Departed, Interstellar, Ford v Ferrari, Oppenheimer. On television he played Scott Thorson in Behind the Candelabra and earned Emmy nominations for 30 Rock and hosting Saturday Night Live. He produced Project Greenlight for over a decade and Manchester by the Sea in 2016, co-founded two production companies with Affleck, and has spent years working with Water.org and other charitable ventures.
