Narration (Comparing and Contrasting Biographies)

Ben and Matt the best friends in Hollywood

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are two successful American actors. Both have many awards and many fans around the world. Ben and Matt were born in United States. Matt was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Ben was born in Berkeley, California. The mother of Ben is Christine Ann Boldt a school district teacher and the mother of Matt is Nancy Carlsson-Paige. She is a teacher too.

In 1984 the Ben´s family moved to Cambridge and Ben meet Matt who lived two blocks away. In that time Ben and Matt were only kids. The two would later attend to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School together, although they were in different year groups.

In 1992 Ben and Matt worked in School Ties a film directed by Robert Mandel. After that Ben and Matt wrote the screenplay of Good Will Hunting, this movie received nine Academy Awards nominations and Ben and Matt won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

A few years later Ben, Matt and producers Chris Moore and Sean Bailey founded the production company LivePlanet, through which the four created the documentary series Project Greenlight. Project Greenlight was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program in 2002, 2004 and 2005.

Following Good Will Hunting Ben and Matt had starring roles in many successful films. Ben was the main character in a lot of great movies including : Armageddon, Forces of Nature, Pearl Harbor, Changing Lanes, The Sum of All Fears and Daredevil. On the other hand Matt played Jason Bourne an amnesiac assassin in the successful action movies The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum.

Ben and Matt have had relationships with several actresses throughout their careers including: Winona Raider, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Lopez, Minnie Driver. The difference is that Ben always has romances of high-profile with scandalous and intrigues and Matt always is discreet. Ben and Matt are great actors and have a very brilliant future.