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Matt Damon: Career in pictures

Matthew Paige Damon was born in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 8, 1970. Damon enrolled in 1988 at Harvard University, where he appeared in several stage productions and made his feature debut with a bit part in 1988's "Mystic Pizza." He dropped out in 1992 to pursue acting full time.

Matthew Paige Damon was born in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 8, 1970. Damon enrolled in 1988 at Harvard University, where he appeared in several stage productions and made his feature debut with a bit part in 1988’s “Mystic Pizza.” He dropped out in 1992 to pursue acting full time.

  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon

No Matt Damon retrospective is complete without including his Cambridge high school pal turned Hollywood collaborator Ben Affleck, left. They’ve worked together on several films, including the Oscar-winning “Good Will Hunting,” and launched the reality series “Project Greenlight” together in 2001.

  (Yukio Gion / Associated Press)

Oscar win | 1998

Old friends Affleck, left, and Damon shared the Oscar for original screenplay for “Good Will Hunting” at the 1998 Academy Awards. Affleck would later win the best picture Oscar for 2012’s “Argo.”

  (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)

Matt Damon and Luciana Bozan Barroso

After romances with fellow movie stars Minnie Driver and Winona Ryder, Damon married former Miami bartender Luciana Bozan Barroso in 2004. She and Damon have four daughters.

  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

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