Actor and director Ben Affleck’s movie “Argo” won three Academy Awards, including the prize for best picture at this year’s Oscars ceremony. The movie already won numerous awards this season and was nominated for a total of seven Academy Awards.
Will his upcoming flick, ‘To the Wonder,” directed by Terrence Malick and starring Affleck, Olga Kurylenko and Rachel McAdams, find similar success with the critics? Only time will tell.
So you know he’s from Cambridge and has made it big in Hollywood, but h0w much do you really know about him? Here are some fun facts that might surprise you about the guy Bostonians call one of their own. --Matt Juul, Boston.com Correspondent
Pictured: Affleck (left) with former Governor Mitt Romney and his wife, Anne, at the Red Sox Foundation Welcome Home Dinner on April 11, 2005.
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