Writer Filmography Biography

Matt Damon

actor, screenwriter
Born: 10/8/1970
Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts

A Harvard University dropout, Damon struggled for years as a screenwriter and actor before becoming Hollywood's boy wonder as the star and co-writer of Good Will Hunting, for which he and longtime friend Ben Affleck won a screenwriting Oscar. In addition to starring in Good Will Hunting (1997), he and Ben Affleck won an Oscar for its screenplay. His other films include School Ties (1992), John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997), Rounders (1998), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), All the Pretty Horses (2000) and The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000).

• Mystic Pizza, 1988
• The Good Mother, 1988
• School Ties, 1992
• Geronimo: An American Legend, 1993
• Courage Under Fire, 1996
• Glory Daze, 1996
• Chasing Amy, 1997
• The Rainmaker, 1997
• Good Will Hunting, 1997
• Saving Private Ryan, 1998
• Rounders, 1998
• Dogma, 1999
• The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1999
• Titan A.E., 2000
• The Legend of Bagger Vance, 2000
• All the Pretty Horses, 2000

Writer Filmography

• Good Will Hunting, 1997