Jennifer Garner Age, Height, Partner, Net Worth & Biography

Jennifer Garner is an American actress best known as Sydney Bristow in Alias, the spy drama that ran on ABC from 2001 to 2006 and that won her a Golden Globe Award, and as Jenna Rink in 13 Going on 30. Born on April 17, 1972, in Houston, Texas, Garner, 54, began her career in theatre and television, and she has since built a film career that includes Juno, Dallas Buyers Club and The Last Thing He Told Me, as well as work as a co-founder of the organic baby food company Once Upon a Farm.

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Who Is Jennifer Garner?

Jennifer Garner is an actress whose breakthrough came as a spy on television. As Sydney Bristow, a graduate student who is recruited by the CIA and who leads a double life as a spy, in Alias (2001-2006), Garner played a woman who is smart, athletic and, in the end, deeply loyal, and her performance, which required her to perform many of her own stunts and to speak in several languages, won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series. She is also known as Jenna Rink, a 13-year-old girl who wakes up as a 30-year-old woman, in 13 Going on 30 (2004), a romantic comedy that became a box-office hit.

Beyond those roles, Garner has shown a wide range. She played Vanessa, a woman who adopts a baby with her husband, in Juno (2007), a film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and she played Dr. Eve Saks, a doctor who treats AIDS patients, in Dallas Buyers Club (2013), opposite Matthew McConaughey. She starred in Pearl Harbor (2001), in which she played Sandra, a nurse, in Elektra (2005), in which she played the title role, in Yes Day (2021), and in The Last Thing He Told Me (2023), in which she played Hannah Hall, a woman whose husband disappears. She was married to Ben Affleck from 2005 to 2018, and they have three children together.

Early Life & Background

Jennifer Anne Garner was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Patricia Ann English, an English teacher from Oklahoma, and William John Garner, a chemical engineer who worked for Union Carbide. She was the middle of three daughters, and she grew up in Charleston, West Virginia, where she attended George Washington High School. She went on to study theatre at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1994, and she moved to New York City to pursue a career in acting.

She began acting on stage, appearing in the Broadway production of A Moon for the Misbegotten (1995), and she worked as a waitress and as a hostess while auditioning for roles. She appeared in the television series Felicity (1998-2002), in which she played Hannah Bibb, and in Time of Your Life (1999-2000), in which she played Romy Sullivan. She made her film debut in Zoya (1995), a television film, and she appeared in Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000), in Pearl Harbor, and in Alias, which brought her to wide attention as a television actress.

Career

Garner’s career in film includes Zoya, Dude, Where’s My Car?, Pearl Harbor, Catch Me If You Can (2002), Daredevil (2003), 13 Going on 30, Elektra, Catch and Release (2006), The Kingdom (2007), Juno, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), Valentine’s Day (2010), The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012), Dallas Buyers Club, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014), Miracles from Heaven (2016), Love, Simon (2018), Peppermint (2018), Yes Day, and The Last Thing He Told Me. She won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama for Alias, and she has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for the same role.

On television, Garner has played in Felicity, in Alias, in The Last Thing He Told Me, and in Camping (2018). She was married to Scott Foley, an actor, from 2000 to 2004. She married Ben Affleck, an actor, in 2005, and they have three children together: Violet, Seraphina and Samuel. They separated in 2015 and divorced in 2018. She is a co-founder of Once Upon a Farm, an organic baby food company, and she is a board member of Save the Children. She is known for her work as an actress, as an entrepreneur, and for a career that has lasted for more than twenty-five years.

Facts About Jennifer Garner

• She played Sydney Bristow in Alias (2001-2006), winning a Golden Globe Award for the role.
• She played Jenna Rink in 13 Going on 30 (2004) and Dr. Eve Saks in Dallas Buyers Club (2013).
• She co-founded Once Upon a Farm, an organic baby food company.
• She was married to Ben Affleck from 2005 to 2018, and they have three children together.
• She is a board member of Save the Children.

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