Matt Damon Age, Wife, Net Worth & Biography

Matt Damon is 56 years old and one of the most successful actors of his generation. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting with his childhood friend Ben Affleck, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and he went on to lead the Bourne franchise, the Ocean’s films, and some of the biggest movies of the last 30 years, from Saving Private Ryan to The Martian to Oppenheimer. In 2026 he played the title role in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.

Quick Facts

Full Name	Matthew Paige Damon
Age	56 years old
Date of Birth	October 8, 1970
Birthplace	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Partner	Luciana Bozán Barroso (wife, married 2005)
Net Worth	approx. $170 million (Celebrity Net Worth, 2025)
Known For	Good Will Hunting; the Bourne franchise; The Martian; The Odyssey

Who Is Matt Damon?

Matt Damon is an American actor, film producer, and screenwriter who has been one of Hollywood’s leading men for almost 30 years. He was ranked among Forbes’ most bankable stars in 2007, and in 2010 he was one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. He has received an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and nominations for three British Academy Film Awards and seven Primetime Emmy Awards.

Damon made his acting debut in the film Mystic Pizza in 1988, then gained prominence in 1997 when he and Ben Affleck wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting, which won them the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay. He went on to star as Jason Bourne in the Bourne franchise, as Linus Caldwell in the Ocean’s trilogy, and in a string of hit films including The Talented Mr. Ripley, Saving Private Ryan, The Departed, Interstellar, The Martian, Ford v Ferrari, and Oppenheimer.

Off screen, Damon is married to Luciana Barroso, and the couple have three daughters together, plus a stepdaughter from Luciana’s previous marriage. He is also a prominent philanthropist, co-founding the charity Water.org, which provides clean water and sanitation to people in developing countries, and he has worked with organisations including the ONE Campaign and Feeding America.

Early Life & Background

Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father, Kent Damon, was a stockbroker, and his mother, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, was a professor of early childhood education. He grew up in Cambridge with his older brother, Kyle, and he became friends with Ben Affleck, who lived nearby, when the two were children.

Damon attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where he and Affleck took drama classes together, and he went on to Harvard University, where he studied English. He left Harvard before graduating to pursue acting, and he and Affleck wrote Good Will Hunting together while they were still in their twenties, a script that would change both of their lives.

Career

Good Will Hunting, released in 1997, was Damon’s breakthrough. He played Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT with a genius for mathematics, and he and Affleck won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He followed it with Saving Private Ryan in 1998, in which he played the title soldier, and The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1999, in which he played the con man Tom Ripley.

The Bourne franchise, which began with The Bourne Identity in 2002, made Damon an action star. He played Jason Bourne, an amnesiac assassin trying to recover his identity, in four films between 2002 and 2016, and the series became one of the most successful action franchises of the era. He also starred in the Ocean’s trilogy as Linus Caldwell, and he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for playing the rugby player Francois Pienaar in Invictus in 2009, and another nomination for Best Actor for playing an astronaut stranded on Mars in The Martian in 2015, for which he won the Golden Globe for Best Actor.

In recent years Damon has starred in Ford v Ferrari in 2019, The Last Duel in 2021, Air in 2023, and Oppenheimer in 2023, in which he played General Leslie Groves. In 2026 he played the title character in The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic poem, a role that capped a career of more than 35 years in film.

Facts About Matt Damon

• Matt Damon won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997), which he wrote with Ben Affleck.
• He played Jason Bourne in four films in the Bourne franchise, from 2002 to 2016.
• Damon received Oscar nominations for Best Actor for Good Will Hunting, Invictus, and The Martian.
• He co-founded Water.org, a charity that provides clean water and sanitation to people in developing countries.
• He played the title character in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026).

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