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Jennifer Anne Affleck (née Garner born April 17, 1972), better known as
Jennifer Garner, is an American actress and film producer. Garner gained
recognition on television for her performance as CIA agent Sydney
Bristow in the thriller drama series Alias, which aired on ABC for five
seasons from 2001 to 2006. While working on Alias, she gained minor
roles in hit movies such as Pearl Harbor (2001) and Catch Me if You Can
(2002). Since then, Garner has appeared in supporting as well as lead
roles on the big screen in projects including Daredevil (2003), 13 Going
on 30 (2004), Elektra (2005), a spin-off of Daredevil, and Juno (2007).
She is married to actor and director Ben Affleck, with whom she has two
daughters and a son.
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Background information
Born Jennifer Anne Garner
April 17, 1972 (1972-04-17) (age 39)
Houston, Texas, United States
Occupation Actress, producer
Years active 1995–present
Spouse Scott Foley (2000–2004)
Ben Affleck (2005–present)
Children 3
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Early
life
Garner is the second of three daughters born into a middle class family in
Houston, Texas. Her mother, Patricia Ann (née English), was an English teacher
from Oklahoma, and her father, William "Bill" John Garner, worked as a chemical
engineer at Union Carbide. When she was four years old, her father's job with
Union Carbide relocated her family to Princeton, West Virginia, and then later
to Charleston, West Virginia, where Garner resided until her college years.[1]
She has credited her older sister, Melissa Lynn Garner Wylie, who resides in
Boston, Massachusetts, as a source of inspiration to her.[2] Her younger sister
is Susannah Kay Garner Carpenter.[3]
Garner's conservative upbringing included going to church every Sunday, not
wearing make-up or a bikini, and waiting at least until the age of 16 to be
allowed to get her ears pierced, which, she later joked, made her family "just a
step away from being Amish."[4][5] She began taking ballet lessons at the age of
three and continued to dance throughout her youth, but she did not envision
herself becoming a classical ballerina.[6] Garner attended George Washington
High School in Charleston. In 1990, she enrolled at Ohio's Denison University,
where she originally studied chemistry but changed her major to drama and worked
in numerous theatrical productions.[7] She graduated from Denison, where she was
initiated into the sorority Pi Beta Phi, in 1994.[8]
Career
In 1994, Garner appeared in Atlanta productions of two Shakespeare plays, The
Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the Georgia Shakespeare
Company.[9]
In 1995, Garner started pursuing theater in New York City and earned $150 a week
as an understudy in the play A Month in the Country for Roundabout Theatre
Company.[2] She was then cast in her first television role as part of a
made-for-television movie Zoya, based on the Danielle Steel novel. In the late
1990s, she made brief appearances in individual episodes of Spin City and Law &
Order while also securing roles in two short-lived television series,
Significant Others and Time of Your Life.
Garner made her first big screen appearance of the 21st century in the comedy
Dude, Where's My Car?, playing Ashton Kutcher's character's girlfriend. In 2001,
she appeared as the supporting character of a nurse in the big-budget epic Pearl
Harbor, starring her future husband Ben Affleck.
Later in 2001, J. J. Abrams, the producer of Felicity, in which Garner had
played a recurring role since 1998, approached Garner to audition for the role
of Sydney Bristow in his new spy drama Alias. Garner, who up until then had
mostly played weepy waifs, did not learn that she "might have to throw a punch
or kick" until the first few days of the audition.[10] Told that she "throws
like such a girl"[10] and with no background in martial arts or gymnastics, she
enrolled in a month-long, private Taekwondo class to prepare for the
audition.[10] Even as Garner was cast after several auditions, Abrams revealed
that he remained panicked with the thought that she might not be able to pull
off the role, especially as, on the first day of shooting, he was told by Garner
herself, "I don't think I can do this."[11] Garner later commented, "I was such
a girlie-girl then. I didn't even know how to punch."[12] While she performed
many of the action sequences during the series herself, the dangerous explosions
and complex fights were handled by her stunt double, Shauna Duggins.[13] The
first few episodes of season one of Alias, which averaged about 10.2 million
weekly viewers,[14] earned Garner the award for "Best Actress in a Television
Series — Drama" at the 2002 Golden Globe Awards. Garner's salary for the show
began at $40,000 an episode and rose to $150,000 per episode by the series'
end.[15] During the show's run, Garner received four consecutive Golden Globe
Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama nominations as well as Emmy[16]
nominations for her lead performance. She won the Screen Actors Guild Award for
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series in 2005. That same
year, during the fourth season, Garner directed the Alias episode, "In Dreams",
which aired in May. She received producer credit during the series' final
season. The series concluded in May 2006 after a shorter fifth season that was
abbreviated from 22 to 17 episodes due to Garner's pregnancy, which was written
into the season's storyline.[17][18]
After the initial success of Alias, Garner made a big screen cameo in the Steven
Spielberg film Catch Me if You Can in 2002. Her breakout film role came when she
played Ben Affleck's love interest as Elektra Natchios in the action movie
Daredevil (2003), an adaptation of the comic book. Garner stated that her
training for Daredevil was more gruesome than her work on Alias, and revealed
that as she got hung up on wires several times during fight sequences, Affleck
became "in charge of reaching up and saving [her]."[19] She was involved in a
potentially serious accident on the set of Daredevil when, entangled in wires
with her arms stuck and unable to move while doing a flip, she came crashing
towards a wall "head-first with such velocity, that [she] was about to smash
[her] head into the wall".[20] Recalling how she was rescued by Affleck, she
said in 2003, "out of nowhere comes this 6ft 4in red devil who just kind of put
his arms out and shouts: 'I've got her!' I'm telling you, it was like, 'I've got
my own superhero.'"[20] While Daredevil got mixed reviews, it was a box office
hit.[21]
Garner starred in her first leading role in 13 Going on 30 (2004), a moderate
commercial success.[21] Reviewers praised her performance as "radiant"[22] and
"effervescent without ever being cloying",[23] and The Christian Science Monitor
commented that "while Garner is no Tom Hanks, she's consistently appealing".[24]
Her second lead role saw her reprising the character of Elektra in the 2005
Daredevil spin-off titled Elektra, a box office disaster that was panned by
critics.[25] The Boston Globe stated, "Based on Garner's humorlessness, lack of
vocal inflection, and generally bland disposition, "the Way" she has yet to
grasp seems to be that of acting,"[26] whereas USA Today concluded that
"Jennifer Garner ... is far more appealing when she's playing charming and
adorable, as she did so winningly in 13 Going on 30.[27]
Garner performed the Frank Loesser song "My Heart Is So Full of You" on the 2006
charity album Unexpected Dreams – Songs From the Stars. She appeared in the
films Catch and Release (2006) and The Kingdom (2007) alongside Jamie Foxx,
Jason Bateman and Ashraf Barhom. She then appeared in the Jason Reitman-directed
comedy/drama feature Juno, which became a sleeper box office hit.[28] After that
film's premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Entertainment Weekly declared
Garner's work the best female supporting performance of the festival, saying,
"The star of Alias and The Kingdom does no butt-kicking in this sweet comedy.
Instead, as a young wife desperately hoping to adopt, she's funny, a bit tough,
and unbelievably touching."[29]
Garner made her Broadway debut on November 1, 2007, playing Roxanne in Cyrano de
Bergerac alongside Kevin Kline at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway.[30]
The show was originally set to run until December 23, 2007, but it was extended
through January 6, 2008 due to the Broadway stagehand strike in late 2007.[31]
Garner appeared in the hit ensemble romantic comedy Valentine's Day in 2010 and
in the 2011 remake of Arthur.
Personal
life
Marriages and family
On October 19, 2000, Garner married actor Scott Foley, whom she had met on the
set of Felicity in 1998. After separating from Foley in March 2003, Garner filed
for divorce in May 2003, citing irreconcilable differences, and the two were
officially divorced on March 30, 2004.[32][33] Following her separation, Garner
dated Alias co-star Michael Vartan from August 2003 to March 2004.[34][35]
Sometime in early to mid 2004, Garner started dating Daredevil co-star Ben
Affleck and the two made their first public appearance as a couple by attending
the Boston Red Sox's opening World Series games in October 2004.[36] Since her
relationship with Affleck, first as girlfriend and then as wife, Garner has been
a tabloid staple.[37] "Ben taught me that you cannot read that stuff, that it's
poison," she said in 2009.[38] On Garner's 33rd birthday, Affleck proposed to
her with a 4.5 carats (900 mg) diamond ring from Harry Winston.[39] Affleck
married Garner, who was three months pregnant at the time, on June 29, 2005 in a
private ceremony in the Caribbean, officiated by family friend and Garner's
Alias co-star, Victor Garber,[40] at the Parrot Cay resort on the Turks and
Caicos Islands.[41] The couple have three children: daughters Violet Anne
Affleck (born December 1, 2005)[42] and Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck (born
January 6, 2009),[43][44] and son Samuel Garner Affleck (born February 27,
2012).[45][46]
Stalking
Garner had been stalked since 2002 by a man, Steven Burky, who was eventually
arrested in December 2009, after violating a 2008 restraining order against
him.[47] Burky was charged with two counts of stalking, to which he pleaded not
guilty by reason of insanity; in March 2010, he was ruled insane and sent to the
California state mental hospital with a court order to stay away from the
Affleck family for 10 years if released from the hospital.[48]
In the
media
In 2002, Garner topped the Maxim Hot 100 list.[49] In December 2007, Garner was
named The Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail's 2007 West Virginian of the Year "for
her dedication, work ethic and unique role as role model and ambassador for West
Virginia."[50]
Filmography
Film
|
Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
|
1997 |
In Harm's Way |
Kelly |
|
|
1997 |
Deconstructing Harry |
Woman in Elevator |
|
|
1997 |
Washington Square |
Marian Almond |
|
|
1997 |
Mr. Magoo |
Stacey Sampanahodrita |
|
|
1998 |
1999 |
Annabell |
Alternative title: Girls & Boys |
|
2000 |
Dude, Where's My Car? |
Wanda |
|
|
2001 |
Pearl Harbor |
Nurse Sandra |
|
|
2001 |
Rennie's Landing |
Kiley Bradshaw |
Alternative title: Stealing Time |
|
2002 |
Catch Me If You Can |
Cheryl Ann |
Cameo Role |
|
2003 |
Daredevil |
Elektra Natchios |
|
|
2004 |
13 Going on 30 |
30-year-old Jenna Rink |
|
|
2005 |
Elektra |
Elektra Natchios |
|
|
2006 |
Catch and Release |
Gray |
|
|
2007 |
Kingdom, TheThe
Kingdom |
Janet Mayes |
|
|
2007 |
Juno |
Vanessa Loring |
Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting
Actress
Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast |
|
2009 |
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past |
Jenny Perotti |
|
|
2009 |
Invention of Lying, TheThe
Invention of Lying |
Anna |
|
|
2010 |
Valentine's Day |
Julia Fitzpatrick |
|
|
2011 |
Arthur |
Susan Johnson |
|
|
2012 |
Butter |
Laura Pickler |
Also Producer |
|
2012 |
The Odd Life of Timothy Green |
Cindy Green |
|
Television
|
Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
|
1995 |
Danielle Steel's Zoya |
Sasha |
Television movie |
|
1996 |
Swift Justice |
Allison |
Episode: "No Holds Barred" |
|
1996 |
Spin City |
Becky |
Episode: "The Competition" |
|
1996 |
Harvest of Fire |
Sarah Troyer |
Television movie |
|
1996 |
Law & Order |
Jaime |
Episode: "Aftershock" |
|
1996 |
Dead Man's Walk |
Clara Forsythe |
Miniseries |
|
1997 |
Player, TheThe
Player |
Celia Levison |
Television movie |
|
1997 |
Rose Hill |
Mary Rose Clayborne |
Television movie |
|
1998 !1998 |
Significant Others |
Nell |
6 episodes |
|
1998.5 !1998–2002 |
Felicity |
Hannah Bibb |
3 episodes |
|
1999 |
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York |
Diane Agostini |
Television movie |
|
1999 !1999 |
Pretender, TheThe
Pretender |
Billie Vaughn |
1 episode |
|
1999.5 !1999–2001 |
Time of Your Life |
Romy Sullivan |
19 episodes |
|
2001–2006 |
Alias |
Sydney Bristow |
·
105 episodes
·
Saturn Award for Best Actress
on Television
·
Golden Globe Award for Best
Actress - Television Series Drama
·
Screen Actors Guild Award for
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
·
Teen Choice Awards for
Television – Choice Actress
·
Nominated—Saturn Award for Best
Actress on Television (2004, 2005, 2006)
·
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award
for Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
·
Nominated—Golden Globe Award
for Best Actress - Television Series Drama (2003, 2004, 2005)
·
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild
Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama
Series
·
Nominated—Satellite Award for
Best Actress – Television Series Drama (2003, 2004, 2005)
·
Nominated—Television Critics
Association for Individual Achievement in Drama
·
Nominated—Teen Choice Awards
for Choice Television Actress – Drama |
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