Ben Affleck : (Celebrity In Spotlight)

Benjamin Géza Affleck is an American Golden Globe Award-nominated film actor, director, an Academy Award-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.Actor, writer, and director Ben Affleck hit the Hollywood radar in 1997 as the co-writer and co-star of “Good Will Hunting,” earning an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay along with childhood best friend Matt Damon.

In fact, the seemingly overnight ascent to stardom in tandem with Damon, became one of the great “Hollywood” stories” of all time – right up there with Lana Turner being discovered at Schwab’s Drugstore. Flying past the more understated Damon in terms of initial popularity and box office, the handsome, chiseled Affleck went on to achieve box office gold in uneven blockbusters like “Armageddon” (1998), “Pearl Harbor” (2001) and “Daredevil” (2003), as well as quirky Kevin Smith comedies “Chasing Amy” (1997) and “Dogma” (1999).But it was his extracurricular activities – dating famous actresses and ending up in rehab – that made him a magnet for media attention.

His overexposed romance with actress-singer Jennifer Lopez – collectively known as “Bennifer” – and a string of flops threatened to banish Affleck to B-film status until concerted efforts to reclaim his private life and his celebrated directorial debut “Gone Baby Gone” (2007) proved that perhaps Affleck’s most underused talent was his ability to write his own happy ending.While promoting the film’s fall 2007 release, Affleck was again eager to address the 2008 presidential elections, voicing support for Democratic candidate Barack Obama and critiquing the incumbent administration on Fox News, MSNBC, and “Real Time with Bill Maher” (HBO, 2003- ), among others.