Matt Damon's Life

Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Matt's parents are Kent Damon and Nancy Carlsson-Paige. Damon enrolled in college at Harvard University. In Harvard, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck did a movie together. In 1996, Matt had to lose forty pounds for his role in "Courage Under Fire." When Damon was two years old, his parents divorced. When his baby nephew cries, he sings "Afternoon Delight" to him. Damon's uncle, George Brunstad, swam the English Channel at the age of seventy in fifteen hours and fifty-nine minutes. George holds the record for oldest person to swim the English Channel. Matt is married to Luciana Barroso. Damon is alive and currently forty-two years old.