Matt Damon

I've always had a soft spot for Matt Damon because he reads as the most regular-guy of the A-listers, and yet he keeps quietly outclassing people. Writing Good Will Hunting with Ben Affleck and winning the screenplay Oscar in his twenties is the kind of origin story that should make me jealous, but he's too likable to resent. I love that he can anchor a brainy thriller like the Bourne films, play the math-genius janitor, and then turn around and goof off as the unluckiest man in the galaxy in The Martian. The Boston loyalty, the Affleck bromance, the dad-next-door energy, it all just works. He's a movie star who never seems to be performing stardom, and honestly that's rarer than it sounds.

Name (English)

Matt Damon

Name (Japanese)

マット・デイモン

Reading

まっと・でいもん

Born

October 8, 1970 (age 55)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dog

Origin

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

film actor / screenwriter / film producer / writer / voice actor

University

Harvard University

Awards & achievements

• 1998 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
• 2006 Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/odamnmatt/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Damon
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q175535

Tags

• Massachusetts
• film actor
• screenwriter
• film producer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.