Matt Damon
Naissance : 08/10/1970
(53 ans)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, États-Unis
Biographie
Matt Damon has been honored for his work on both sides of the camera, more recently earning Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award® and BAFTA Award® nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries for his performance opposite Michael Douglas in Stephen Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra. The HBO telefilm takes a behind-the-scenes look at the tempestuous relationship between Liberace (Douglas) and Scott Thorson (Damon), his younger limo driver and live-in lover, is the seventh film that Damon has done with Soderbergh.
Damon also earned Academy Award®, Screen Actors Guild Award and Critics' Choice Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of South African rugby hero Francois Pienaar in Clint Eastwood's true-life drama Invictus. In addition, he garnered dual Golden Globe Award nominations: one for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Invictus and one for Best Actor for his starring role in Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! Earlier in his career, Damon won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay and received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his breakthrough feature Good Will Hunting.
Audiences saw Damon star in Monuments Men, alongside the film's director, co-writer George Clooney. Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action-thriller focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with rescuing artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners.
In 2002 Damon originated the role of Jason Bourne in the blockbuster The Bourne Identity, reprised his role in the hit sequels, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, both directed by Paul Greengrass. He also teamed with Steven Soderbergh as part of the all-star cast in the Ocean's Eleven trilogy.
Damon's other film credits include the sci-fi thriller Elysium for director Neil Blomkamp; Promised Land, which reunited Damon with director Gus Van Sant and was written and produced by Damon and John Krasinki; We Bought a Zoo, directed by Cameron Crowe; the Coen brothers' remake of the classic Western True Grit; George Nolfi's thriller The Adjustment Bureau, opposite Emily Blunt; Happy Feet 2, to which he lent his voice to the animated feature; the thriller Contagion for director Steven Soderbergh; the drama Hereafter, which reunited him with director Clint Eastwood; the action thriller Green Zone directed by Paul Greengrass; Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning Best Picture The Departed, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg; Robert De Niro's dramatic thriller The Good Shepherd, with De Niro and Angelina Jolie; and Stephen Gaghan's geopolitical thriller Syriana, with George Clooney.
For the small screen, Damon both executive produced and appeared in the History Channel project The People Speak, based on a book co-written by famed historian Howard Zinn and featuring dramatic readings and performances from some of the most famous names in the entertainment industry.
Hailing from Boston, Damon attended Harvard University and gained his first acting experience with the American Repertory Theatre. He made his feature film debut in Mystic Pizza, followed by roles in School Ties, Walter Hill's Geronimo: An American Legend, and the cable projects Rising Son and Tommy Lee Jones' The Good Old Boys. He first gained attention with his portrayal of a guilt-ridden Gulf War veteran tormented by memories of a battlefield incident in 1996's Courage Under Fire.
Together with his lifelong friend Ben Affleck, Damon co-wrote the acclaimed 1997 drama Good Will Hunting, for which they won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as several critics groups awards for Best Original Screenplay. Damon also garnered Oscar, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award nominations for Best Actor.
Additionally in 1997, Damon starred as an idealistic young attorney in Francis Ford Coppola's The Rainmaker and made a cameo appearance in Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy.
The following year, Damon played the title role in Steven Spielberg's award-winning World War II drama Saving Private Ryan and also starred in John Dahl's drama Rounders, with Edward Norton. Damon earned his third Golden Globe nomination for his performance in 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, under the direction of Anthony Minghella. He also reunited with Ben Affleck and director Kevin Smith to star in the controversial comedy Dogma.
Damon's subsequent film credits include starring roles in Robert Redford's The Legend of Bagger Vance; Billy Bob Thornton's All the Pretty Horses; the Farrelly brothers' comedy Stuck on You, opposite Greg Kinnear; Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm, with Heath Ledger; and a cameo in George Clooney's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
In 2000, Damon and Affleck formed the production company LivePlanet to produce film, television and new media projects. LivePlanet produced the documentary Running the Sahara, directed by Oscar winner James Moll.
LivePlanet also produced three Emmy-nominated seasons of Project Greenlight, chronicling the making of independent films by first-time writers and directors. The Project Greenlight films produced to date are Stolen Summer, The Battle of Shaker Heights and Feast.
In 2008, Oscar winners Damon and Affleck formed Pearl Street Productions to produce stories in film and television, and recently co-produced Promised Land.
Twentieth Century Fox
Acteur
Séries | |
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2013 |
House of Lies |
Matt Damon, ce héros (S02E04) |
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2011 |
30 Rock |
Une demi-heure interminable (S05E14) |
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2010 |
30 Rock |
Mariage quand tu nous tiens... (S04E22) |
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30 rock en live (S05E04) |
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La Strategie de Fabien (S05E01) |
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2009 |
Cubed |
Entourage |
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C'est pour des gosses (S06E12) |
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2005 |
New York - Section criminelle |
The Unblinking Eye (S04E21) |
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2002 |
Will & Grace |
A Chorus Lie (S04E16) |
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2000 |
Clerks |
1996 |
Arthur |
Concerts | |
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2010 |
Hope for Haiti Now |
Courts métrages | |
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2024 |
Dunkin': The DunKings |
2015 |
Ares III: Farewell |
Ares III: The Right Stuff |
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2013 |
Movie: The Movie 2V |
2012 |
Movie: The Movie |
Scénariste
Films | |
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2021 |
Le Dernier Duel |
2012 |
Promised Land |
2002 |
Gerry |
1997 |
Will Hunting |
Producteur
Films | |
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2025 |
Animals |
2024 |
Small Things Like These |
The Instigators |
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Witness for the Prosecution |
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2023 |
Air |
2016 |
Jason Bourne |
Manchester by the Sea |
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2012 |
Promised Land |
2002 |
Stolen Summer |
Courts métrages | |
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2023 |
For People in Trouble |
Participant
Monteur
Films | |
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2002 |
Gerry |