[12] He next appeared as a low-ranking mobster in the romantic comedy Gigli (2003), co-starring Lopez. During the Democratic National Convention in Boston, he spoke to many delegations, appeared on political discussion shows, and attended fundraising events. [385], While Affleck believes paparazzi attention is "part of the deal" of stardom, he has spoken out against photographs taken at his private residence[386] and paparazzi interest in his children specifically, who he says became the "big money" draw for photographers waiting outside his home. Timothy Byers Affleck - Biographical Summaries of Notable People - MyHeritage Go Premium Help English Family tree Photos NEW Research DNA Help Timothy Byers Affleck In Biographical Summaries of Notable People Save this record and choose the information you want to add to your family tree Save record Spotted an error? He directs the hell out of it, nailing the quickening pace, the wayward humor, the nerve-frying suspense. [21] During the press junket for The Way Back in 2020, Affleck opened up about his addiction[420] but stressed that he felt "vulnerable" and did not intend to "go on talking about this issue forever", saying: "I think the value, if there is value in me talking about being a recovering alcoholic, is that that doesn't have to be who you are. [431] As infants, each of his three children were baptized as members of the United Methodist Church. According to the actors' father Timothy, the brothers are simply victims of the entertainment world. Andrew Barker of Variety found him "a winningly cranky, charismatic presence,"[157] while Brian Truitt of USA Today enjoyed his "strong" and "surprisingly emotional" take on the character. [310] During the 2016 presidential election, Affleck recorded a New Hampshire voter public service announcement,[311] and was named by the Clinton campaign as a "Hillblazer" one of 1,100 individuals who had contributed or raised at least $100,000. Born in Berkeley, CA, Affleck's mother, Christopher Anne "Chris" Boldt, was a Harvard-educated elementary school teacher, while his father, Timothy Byers Affleck, was an aspiring playwright who held down a number of odd jobs over the years, including carpenter, auto mechanic, bookie, electrician, bartender, and most importantly, janitor at Harvard. Part of HuffPost Entertainment. [98] The film was a commercial success,[99] but received a mixed response from critics. 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They became engaged in November 2002[348] but their planned wedding on September 14, 2003, was postponed with four days' notice because of "excessive media attention". [306] Affleck did not actively campaign for Obama's reelection in 2012, though he still supported him. [346][347] Lopez's album This Is Me Then was dedicated to and inspired by Affleck. When he was 11, his parents split and divorced. [61] The film, where he starred opposite Bruce Willis as a blue-collar driller tasked by NASA with stopping an asteroid from colliding with Earth, was a box office success. [65] Shakespeare in Love won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, while the cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast. His father, Timothy Byers Affleck, was an aspiring playwright who was . [248][249], Affleck is a member of Feeding America's Entertainment Council. "[357][358] Ben Affleck Makes his First Public Appearance Since Splitting with Jennifer Garner at Comic-Con", "Film Review: 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice', "Review: New Heroes Shine in 'Batman v Superman', "Does Suicide Squad Really Need That Post-Credits Scene? [94] Over time, LivePlanet's focus shifted from multimedia projects to more traditional film production. Perhaps hes picked up a few interview tips from his A-list offspring, as he then pivoted the conversation away from tabloid fodder and to his sons long-standing philanthropic efforts in Africa. [79] However, Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote "the blandly handsome Affleck couldn't convince that he'd ever so much as been turned down for a date, much less lost the love of his life to his best friend". [392] He was charged with two counts of stalking, to which he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. [97] His tabloid fame coincided with a series of poorly received films. Affleck gained wider recognition when he and Matt Damon won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for writing Good Will Hunting (1997), which they also starred in. "[361] Affleck acknowledged that "there were ways I did contribute to it",[362] citing the "Jenny from the Block" music video and a joint promotional interview for Gigli. [7], Affleck supported Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential election campaign. In a new interview with . Affleck had begun to worry that he would be relegated to a career of "throwing people into their lockers",[41] but Smith wrote him a lead role in the romantic comedy Chasing Amy (1997). [7][8] His father, Timothy Byers Affleck,[9] was an aspiring playwright[9] who was "mostly unemployed. His mother, Chris Anne (ne Boldt), is a school teacher, and his father, Timothy Byers Affleck, is a social worker; the two are divorced. [166] The superhero film Justice League, in which Affleck returned as Batman, was released in 2017. "[103] Yet Affleck has repeatedly defended director Martin Brest since the film's release, describing him as "one of the really great directors". [5] His mother, Christopher Anne "Chris" Boldt,[6] was a Harvard-educated elementary school teacher. [395], Affleck had a long-distance relationship with New York-based television producer Lindsay Shookus from mid-2017 to mid-2018;[398][399] they briefly dated again in early 2019. His parents Christopher Anne Boldt and Timothy Byers Affleck both served in the Harvard University as an elementary teacher and a janitor respectively. [351][352][353][354][355] According to Lopez, Affleck's discomfort with the media scrutiny was one reason for their split[356] and, years later, she described it as her "first real heartbreak": "I think different time, different thing, who knows what could've happened but there was a genuine love there. [436], Affleck appeared on the PBS genealogy series Finding Your Roots in 2014. [58] Jay Carr of The Boston Globe wrote that Affleck brought "a beautifully nuanced tenderness" to his role as the working-class friend of Damon's mathematical prodigy character. [130] In 2010, Affleck starred in The Company Men as a mid-level sales executive who is made redundant during the financial crisis of 20072008. [250] He made an appearance at the Greater Boston Food Bank in 2007,[251] and at a Denver food bank in 2008. . Casey Affleck, Ben's younger brother . [350], Affleck and Lopez remained in occasional contact in the years after their breakup and spoke highly of each other in public. [424], Affleck won the 2004 California State Poker Championship, taking home the first prize of $356,400 and qualifying for the 2004 World Poker Tour final tournament. It's just more to illustrate the point of this continual thing of everybody knowing and everybody being part of it, unwittingly or proactively. He is known for his roles in Armageddon, Gone Girl, Argo, and The Town, among many other films. [380] They jointly filed for divorce in April 2017, seeking joint physical and legal custody of their children,[381] and it was finalized in October 2018. Project Greenlight was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program in 2002, 2004 and 2005. Timothy Byers Affleck was born on August 7, 1943 in Berkeley, Alameda County, California United States. Ben Affleck was born on the 15th of August, 1972 under the name Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt in the Berkeley, California, U.S. [143], The following year, Affleck played a romantic lead in Terrence Malick's experimental drama To the Wonder. [268] During the Writers' Strike in 2008, Affleck voiced support for the picketers. However, he was three they shifted to Massachusetts. [54][60], Armageddon, released in 1998, established Affleck as a viable leading man for Hollywood studio films. [409] His paternal uncle was an addict who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. [393], Affleck's first major relationship was with short-film director Cheyenne Rothman, whom he started dating in high school and was with for seven years. After a starring role in the thriller The Accountant (2016), Affleck played supporting roles in the 2021 period dramas The Tender Bar and The Last Duel. And he is now 47 years old. [270] Affleck was a longtime supporter of legalizing gay marriage, saying in 2004 that he hoped to look back on the marriage debate "with some degree of embarrassment for how antiquated it was". "[140] A major critical and commercial success,[141] Argo won the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and BAFTA Award for Best Picture. Meanwhile, Damon and Affleck closed Pearl Street Films. [4][41] The film was Affleck's breakthrough. [124][125] Affleck played a congressman in the political thriller State of Play. Timothy Byers Affleck He appeared alongside the then-Senator at a 2006 rally, introducing him as "the most galvanizing leader to come out of either party, in my opinion, in at least a decade". [108] Later that year, he starred opposite James Gandolfini in the holiday comedy Surviving Christmas. [290] Also that year, Affleck admitted he was not "particularly good at being green" while, in 2014, he named "a 1966 Chevelle" as his guilty pleasure. While filming Forces of Nature in 1998, Affleck befriended ten-year-old Joe Kindregan (19882015), who had the rare disease ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T), and his family. [413][414] In subsequent years, he refused to discuss his alcoholism in detail[7] and later described it as a period where he "drank relatively normally". His father, Timothy Byers Affleck, worked sporadically as a carpenter, auto mechanic, bookie, electrician, bartender, and janitor at Harvard and his mother, Jocelyn Yvonne (ne Wemyss) was a Menu Animals Architecture Art Food Nature People Places He is the eldest in his family and has one younger brother. Actress Hilarie Burton stated that, during an on-air appearance on TRL Uncensored in 2003, Affleck "wraps his arm around me, and comes over and tweaks my left boob". His father, Timothy Byers Affleck, was an aspiring playwright who was "mostly unemployed." He worked sporadically as a carpenter, auto mechanic, bookie, electrician, bartender, and janitor at Harvard. [345] They appeared together in the music video for her song "Jenny from the Block" and the film Jersey Girl. And I was able to for about eight years. His family moved to Massachusetts when he was three, living in Falmouth, where his brother Casey was born, before settling in Cambridge. [93] The show was cancelled by ABC after seven episodes due to low ratings. Timothy was homeless and lived on the streets of Cambridge. [28] David Wheeler, a family friend, later remembered Affleck as a "very bright and intensely curious" child. [203][204], In 2022, Affleck and Ana de Armas starred in Adrian Lyne's thriller Deep Water, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel. His directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone (2007), which he also co-wrote, was well received. [231] During visits to Washington D.C., Affleck has testified before the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights,[232] the House Armed Services Committee,[233] the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,[234] and the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Projects. Timothy Byers Affleck from . [195][196] Bilge Ebiri of New York Magazine was impressed by Affleck's "imperious" performance as the "wonderfully skeezy Pierre, a marvelously out-there creation who shouldn't work at all and yet becomes an engine of uneasy delights. She never told me nor did I ever infer that she was attacked by anyone. [174] He stepped down as director, writer and, ultimately, as the star of The Batman,[175] saying he "couldn't crack it"[176] and no longer felt "passionate" about the story. 20032005: Career downturn and tabloid notoriety, 20162019: Batman and continued directing, 2020present: Supporting roles and Artists Equity. "[384] He also stated that he had never envisioned himself as a divorced person and that he had been reluctant to divorce because of the impact it would have on his children. Affleck then appeared as a small-town sheriff in the supernatural horror film Phantoms. [407][410] His aunt was a heroin addict. [160] Peter Debruge of Variety felt Affleck's "boy-next-door" demeanor "so normal and non-actorly that most of his performances feel like watching one of your buddies up on screen" was "a terrific fit" for the role. "[443], In response to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, Affleck pledged to donate any future profits from his early Miramax films to charities supporting victims of sexual assault[444] and said he had only been aware that Weinstein "was sleazy and a bully. [131] David Denby of The New Yorker declared that Affleck "gives his best performance yet",[132] while Richard Corliss of Time found he "nails Bobby's plunge from hubris to humiliation". "[153] In 2015, Affleck and Damon's Project Greenlight was resurrected by HBO for one season. He's terrific. [187] He relapsed during pre-production in 2018[187] and the movie was shot in the days after he left rehab; Affleck agreed to put his salary in escrow and was accompanied to set by a sober coach. Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Affleck was born with the surname Affleck-Boldt but has since removed Boldt from his official surname. Timothy Byers Affleck: 21 March 1950: Christopher Anne Boldt: Siblings . [7][24], Affleck was raised in a politically active, liberal household. A man who was deep into his alcohol addiction and barely present in his life when he was a kid. In new . Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times said Affleck was "lost" in the role: "A big man, Mr. Affleck is shriveled by the one-dimensional role [Only his scenes with Jon Favreau have] a playful side that allows Mr. Affleck to show his generosity as an actor. But does this mean that Ben actually learned to hate him? "[438] An internal investigation by PBS concluded that Affleck had exerted "improper influence" over the editorial process and that the producers of the show, including Gates, had violated PBS standards by improperly withholding information. Affleck's episode was removed from the show's online archive. Affleck has Irish, Scottish, German, and English ancestry (the surname "Affleck" is Scottish), and is . Affleck is the co-founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative, a grantmaking and advocacy-based nonprofit organization. He is of American nationality. His accolades include two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Ben's dad, a retired social worker, split from his mom Chris, a former school teacher, when he was just 11, but remains close to the family - including their youngest son, actor Casey Affleck, 44. Timothy Affleck, who is also father to actor Casey Affleck, noted that he hasn't "seen my kids in so long" due to COVID-19 and their busy work schedules. "[342][360] In subsequent years, he pushed back against the "curious notion" that he should view the relationship as a mistake, and reflected on the prevailing tabloid culture at the time "where it's about one person and everybody focuses on them. "[202] For the role, Affleck was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. I really wish it wasn't on the internet for my kids to see. [91] Caryn James of The New York Times praised the show's "nerve, imagination and clever writing",[92] but Robert Bianco of USA Today described it as a "knock-off" of Twin Peaks. [236] In 2007, Affleck was the keynote speaker at Kindregan's high school graduation ceremony in Fairfax, Virginia. [50] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly described it as a "wholesome and quick-witted" performance. Affleck's mother, Christine Anne "Chris" Affleck, was a school district employee and teacher. Affleck's mother, Christopher Anne Boldt, had already been at his residence, where she reportedly injured herself. ng cng c ngun gc Ireland, c, Anh v Thy S. [255] Also that year, he and Howard Graham Buffett co-wrote an article for The Huffington Post, highlighting the "growing percentage of the food insecure population that is not eligible for federal nutrition programs". [54][55] They sold the screenplay to Castle Rock in 1994 when Affleck was 22 years old. Affleck himself won the Golden Globe Award, Directors Guild of America Award, and BAFTA Award for Best Director, becoming the first director to win these awards without a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. Affleck's most notable role during this period was as a high school bully in Richard Linklater's cult classic Dazed and Confused (1993). He married Christopher Anne Boldt . [317] He made donations to the presidential campaigns of both Dennis Kucinich and Wesley Clark in 2003. [193], Affleck had supporting roles in two 2021 releases. [334] Also in 2019, he contributed to the congressional campaign funds of both Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar. When asked whether his son had been pining for Lopez since the two called off their engagement nearly 20 years ago, he replied, Ive never heard of all that nonsense.. Meanwhile, his father, Timothy Byers Affleck, did odd jobs as a carpenter, janitor, mechanic, and other such trades. Timothy Byers Affleck Boldt Age Byers Affleck is in his seventies. [318] In 2005, he donated to the campaign fund of Deval Patrick, a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. [71] A.O. Affleck and Damon are co-owners of the production company Artists Equity and were also co-owners of Pearl Street Films. "[446] She said she met Affleck after being sexually assaulted by Weinstein during the Sundance Film Festival in 1997 and told him, while crying, that she had "just come from Harvey's and he said, 'Goddamnit, I told him to stop doing that. Don't miss a beat. in the United States of America. Faith has served me well in recovery as an alcoholic. [51] When Affleck starred as a recently returned Korean War veteran in the coming-of-age drama Going All the Way (1997), Todd McCarthy of Variety found him "excellent",[52] while Janet Maslin of The New York Times noted that his "flair for comic self-doubt made a strong impression. His parents divorced when he was 11. He is also a stalwart supporter of the Democratic Party. He supported Al Gore in the final weeks of the 2000 presidential campaign, attending rallies in California,[293] Pennsylvania,[294] and Florida. Christine Anne Boldt was born on June 3, 1950 in Berkeley, Alameda County, California United States. 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