The pair won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for their work and Damon received multiple Best Actor nominations, including the Academy Award, for his lead performance in the film. He has a brother, Kyle, who is an accomplished sculptor and artist. He and his family moved to Newton and lived there for two years. Damon grew up near actor Ben Affleck, a close friend since childhood and collaborator on several films (Damon is Affleck’s tenth cousin, once removed, through a common New England ancestor). As a lonely adolescent, Damon has described feeling “such pain in wanting to belong somewhere and not belonging.” Damon performed as an actor in several high school theater productions; he has credited his drama teacher at Rindge and Latin, Gerry Speca, as an important artistic influence, even though Damon recalls that, “Mr. Speca always seemed to trust Ben with the biggest roles and longest speeches.” Damon attended Harvard University from 1988 to 1992 but did not graduate. He took part in student theater, appearing in plays such as Burn This in Winthrop House and A..

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Matthew Paige “Matt” Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, screenwriter, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting (1997), from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck. He is one of the top forty highest grossing actors of all time. Damon grew up near Ben Affleck, a close friend since childhood and collaborator on several films, and historian and author Howard Zinn, whose biographical film You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train and audio version of A People’s History of the United States Damon later narrated. While at Harvard, he studied English and lived in Lowell House. Damon’s first film role came in 1988 when he was eighteen, with a single line of dialogue in the romantic comedy Mystic Pizza. He was required to lose 40 pounds (18 kg) in 100 days (for only two days of filming).