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 – rivaling 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
Ben Affleck: You love him, you hate him, you can't get enough of him. Except for when you get too much of him and want him to go away for a while. Ever since he came seemingly out of nowhere and won an Oscar with Matt Damon for