Ben Affleck Biography

Affleck dated Gwyneth Paltrow for a year.

When Affleck was little, he asked his mother for a dog, and she tested him by making him walk an imaginary dog for a week. He only lasted for 5 days and didn't get the dog.

Affleck won $356,000 by winning the California State Poker Championships in June 2004 - defeating some of the best poker players in the world in the process.

Affleck appeared in a prop photo used in the movie 'Mermaids' (1990).

In 2001, Affleck was filming four movies simultaneously: 'Pearl Harbor' (2001), 'Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back' (2001), 'Changing Lanes' (2002), and 'The Sum of All Fears' (2002).

Affleck’s father was at one time a janitor at Harvard University, the inspiration for Will Hunting's job at MIT in 'Good Will Hunting' (1997).

Affleck has a fear of flying.