Matt Damon filmography
Matt Damon is an American actor, producer and screenwriter. He made his screen debut at the age of 18 with a minor role in the 1988 film Mystic Pizza.[1] After appearing in a series of supporting parts in much of the 1990s, the director Francis Ford Coppola cast Damon as the lead of the 1997 legal drama The Rainmaker.[2] His breakthrough came later that year when he starred as an unrecognized genius in Good Will Hunting, a drama which he also co-wrote with Ben Affleck.[3] Damon and Affleck won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Damon was nominated for Best Actor at the same ceremony.[3][4] He followed it by playing the title roles of a soldier in Steven Spielberg's war drama Saving Private Ryan (1998) and of the fictional criminal Tom Ripley in Anthony Minghella's psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), both of which gained critical and commercial success.[5] Damon's profile continued to expand in the 2000s, as he took on starring roles in two lucrative film franchises.[6] He featured as a con man in the Steven Soderbergh-directed Ocean's Trilogy (2001–07) and played the titular spy Jason Bourne in four of the five films in the Bourne franchise (2002–16).[7][8]
Damon co-wrote, co-edited and starred in the drama Gerry in 2002, but the film polarized critics.[9][10] He played an energy analyst in the geopolitical thriller Syriana in 2005, and the following year, he collaborated with the actor Leonardo DiCaprio and the director Martin Scorsese in the acclaimed crime drama The Departed.[11][12] He portrayed the rugby player Francois Pienaar opposite Morgan Freeman's Nelson Mandela in the biographical sports drama Invictus (2009), which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[13][14] Damon continued to gain praise for his collaborations with Soderbergh on the crime film The Informant! (2009) and the drama Behind the Candelabra (2013).[15][16] In the former, he played the corporate whistleblower Mark Whitacre and in the latter, he played Scott Thorson, the disgruntled lover of the pianist Liberace, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination.[17][18][19] In 2012, Damon and Affleck launched the film production company Pearl Street Films.[20] Their first project—the geopolitical drama Promised Land—which Damon co-wrote and starred with John Krasinski, was a disappointment.[21] His biggest commercial successes in the 2010s came with the western True Grit (2010), and the science fiction films Elysium (2013), Interstellar (2014), and The Martian (2015).[22] In the latter, which earned over $630 million to become his highest-grossing release,[lower-alpha 1][24] Damon played a botanist who is stranded on Mars, for which he received an Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.[25][26]
With box office receipts of over $2.9 billion in North America, Damon ranks among Hollywood's biggest stars.[27][28] In addition to acting in films, he has featured as a guest star on the television shows Will & Grace (2002), Entourage (2009) and 30 Rock (2010–11), among others.[29] A production company he formed in 2000 with Affleck and Sean Bailey, named LivePlanet, produced Project Greenlight (2001–05, 2015), a television reality series that helps newcomers develop their first feature film.[30][31] Damon has served as the executive producer of a number of projects directed by the winners of the show.[31][32] In addition, he has narrated several documentaries, including The People Speak (2009) and Inside Job (2010).[33][34]
Film
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Television
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Title | Year | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
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Rising Son | 1990 | Charlie Robinson | Television movie | [98] |
The Good Old Boys | 1995 | Cotton Calloway | Television movie | [99] |
Project Greenlight | 2001–05, 2015 |
Himself | Executive producer | [31][100] |
Push, Nevada | 2002 | — | Executive producer | [101] |
Saturday Night Live | 2001–02, 2011 |
Himself | Episodes: "Gwyneth Paltrow/Ryan Adams", "Matt Damon/Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band" and "Katy Perry/Robyn" |
[29] |
The Bernie Mac Show | 2002 | Himself | Episode: "Keep It on the Short Grass" | [102] |
Will & Grace | 2002 | Owen | Episode: "A Chorus Lie" | [103] |
Journey to Planet Earth | 2003–14 | Narrator | Documentary; 9 episodes | [104] |
Arthur | 2007 | Himself (voice) | Episode: "The Making of Arthur/Dancing Fools" | [105] |
Entourage | 2009 | Himself | Episode: "Give a Little Bit" | [106] |
The People Speak | 2009 | Narrator | Documentary; executive producer |
[34][107] |
Cubed | 2010 | Himself | Episode: "Welcome Matt Damon" | [108] |
30 Rock | 2010–11 | Carol Burnett | Episodes: "I Do Do (2)", "The Fabian Strategy", "Live Show" and "Double-Edged Sword" |
[29] |
House of Lies | 2013 | Himself | Episode: "Damonschildren.org" | [109] |
Years of Living Dangerously | 2014 | Himself | Documentary; episode: "A Dangerous Future" |
[110] |
The Leisure Class | 2015 | — | Television movie; executive producer |
[111] |
The Runner ![]() |
2016 | — | Executive producer | [112] |
Incorporated ![]() |
2016 | — | Executive producer | [113] |
See also
Footnotes
References
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