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Jennifer Garner
Garner at conference for The Invention of Lying at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Born	Jennifer Anne Garner April 17, 1972 (1972-04-17) (age 37) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1995–present
Spouse(s)	Scott Foley (m. 2000–2003) «start: (2000)–end+1: (2004)»"Marriage: Scott Foley to Jennifer Garner" Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Garner) Ben Affleck (m. 2005–present) «start: (2005)»"Marriage: Ben Affleck to Jennifer Garner" Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Garner)

Jennifer Anne Affleck¹ (née Garner; born April 17, 1972), known professionally as Jennifer Garner, is an American actress. Garner first gained recognition through television for her performance as CIA agent Sydney Bristow on the thriller drama series Alias, which aired on ABC for five seasons from 2001 to 2006. While working on Alias, she also gained work in movies such as Steven Spielberg's Catch Me if You Can, the big-budget epic Pearl Harbor, and Daredevil. Since then, Garner has appeared in supporting as well as lead roles on the big screen in projects including 13 Going on 30 and the sleeper hit Juno. She is married to actor and director Ben Affleck, with whom she has two daughters.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

Early life

Garner was born the second of three daughters to Patricia Ann (née English), an English teacher from Oklahoma, and William John Garner, a chemical engineer at Union Carbide, in Houston, Texas. When she was four years old, her father's job with Union Carbide relocated her family to Princeton, West Virginia, and then later to Charleston, West Virginia, where Garner resided until her college years.² She has an older sister named Melissa Lynn Garner Wylie (born February 5, 1969), who resides in Boston, Massachusetts, and a younger sister, Susannah Kay Garner Carpenter (born January 24, 1975³), who is settled in Charleston, West Virginia, their hometown.

Garner's strict upbringing included going to church every Sunday, not wearing make-up and waiting till the age of sixteen to get her ears pierced, which, she later joked, made her family "just a step away from being Amish."⁴⁵⁴ Garner began taking ballet lessons at the age of three and continued to dance throughout her youth, but she has claimed that she never harbored any ambitions of becoming a classical ballerina.⁶

In 1990, Garner graduated from George Washington High School in Charleston and enrolled at Denison University to study chemistry. Upon realizing that she enjoyed stage acting more than science, Garner changed her major to drama. She graduated from Denison, where she was initiated into the sorority Pi Beta Phi, in 1994 and decided to continue her drama education at the National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut. In 1995, Garner started pursuing New York theater after visiting her friend, Clayton Kirlew, in New York City.

Career

While working in New York City in 1995, Garner earned $300 a week as an understudy in the play A Month in the Country for Roundabout Theatre Company. She was then cast in her first television role as part of a made-for-television movie Zoya, based on the Danielle Steel novel. In the late 1990s, she made brief appearances in individual episodes of Spin City and Law & Order while also securing roles in two short-lived television series, Significant Others and Time of Your Life.

Garner made her first big screen appearance of the 21st century in the comedy Dude, Where's My Car?, playing Ashton Kutcher's girlfriend. In 2001, she appeared as the supporting character of a nurse in the big-budget epic Pearl Harbor, starring her future husband Ben Affleck. Later in 2001, J. J. Abrams (who produced Felicity, where Garner had played a recurring role in previous years) approached Garner to audition for the role of Sydney Bristow in the spy drama Alias. After a successful audition, Garner was cast, and, right after the first handful of episodes of the series were aired, she won the award for "Best Actress in a Television Series — Drama" at the 2002 Golden Globes. Garner's salary for the show began at $45,000 an episode and rose to $150,000 per episode by the series' end. During the show's run, Garner received four consecutive Golden Globe as well as Emmy nominations for her lead performance. She won the "Actor Award" from the Screen Actors Guild in 2005. That same year, during the fourth season, Garner directed the Alias episode, "In Dreams", which aired in May, and during the same season, she also experienced nerve damage to her back.⁷ She received producer credit during the series' final season. The series concluded in May 2006 after a fifth, abbreviated season (due to Garner's pregnancy, which was written into the storyline of the fifth season).

After the initial success of Alias, Garner returned to her film career with a small role in the Steven Spielberg film Catch Me if You Can, and starred alongside Ben Affleck as Elektra Natchios in the action movie Daredevil, an adaptation of the comic book. She showed her comedic side in the romantic comedy 13 Going on 30, which was well received both commercially and critically, and reprised her role as "Elektra" in the 2005 spin-off to Daredevil titled Elektra. Garner entered the Forbes' "Power 100" list of celebrities in 2005 at 70th place.⁸ From June 2004 to June 2005, she earned an estimated US $14 million.⁹

Garner's next few films, Catch and Release (2007) and The Kingdom alongside Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman and Ashraf Barhom, were box office failures. She then appeared in the Jason Reitman-directed comedy/drama feature Juno, which became a sleeper box office hit. After that film's premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Entertainment Weekly declared Garner's work the best female supporting performance of the festival, saying "The star of Alias and The Kingdom does no butt-kicking in this sweet comedy. Instead, as a young wife desperately hoping to adopt, she's funny, a bit tough, and unbelievably touching."¹⁰ Instead of demanding her standard salary for the small independent film Juno, Garner had settled on percentage points based on the film's commercial returns. This gesture of goodwill earned her over $8.5 million when the film became a runaway success at the box office.¹¹

Garner made her Broadway debut on November 1, 2007 by playing Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac alongside Kevin Kline at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway.¹² The show was originally set to run until December 23, 2007, but it was extended through January 6, 2008 due to the Broadway stagehand strike in late 2007.¹³ For her portrayal of Roxanne, Garner won the 9th Annual broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite Actress in a Play.¹⁴

Personal life

On October 19, 2000, Garner married actor Scott Foley, whom she had met on the set of Felicity in 1998. After separating from Foley in March 2003, Garner filed for divorce in May 2003, citing irreconcilable differences.¹⁵¹⁶ Foley and Garner claimed that their Hollywood lifestyle was what led to the failure of their marriage and, according to Garner, they "really were victims of Hollywood."¹⁷¹⁸ The two were officially divorced on March 30, 2004. Following her divorce, in mid-2003, it was widely reported that Garner was dating Alias co-star Michael Vartan. Garner confirmed the relationship in August 2003, but never made any public appearances with Vartan.¹⁹ The two broke up in the middle of the year 2004.²⁰²¹²²

Garner started dating her Daredevil co-star Ben Affleck in July 2004 and the two made their first public appearance at a Boston Red Sox game.²³ On Garner's 33rd birthday, while she was pregnant with his child, Affleck proposed to her with a 4.5 carats (900 mg) diamond ring from Harry Winston.²⁴ The couple married, when Garner was three months pregnant, on June 29, 2005 in a private ceremony, officiated by family friend Victor Garber,²⁵²⁶ at the Parrot Cay resort on the Turks and Caicos Islands.²⁷ Her pregnancy was incorporated into the plot of Alias,²⁸ with the season's episode order reduced from the initial 22 to 17 in order to let Garner go on maternity leave.²⁹ On December 1, 2005, Garner gave birth to their first daughter, Violet Anne Affleck.³⁰³¹ The couple's second child, Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck, was born on January 6, 2009.³²³³

Garner enjoys cooking, gardening, and hiking. She is close friends with Reese Witherspoon and actress Jean Louisa Kelly, who interviewed her for the June 2005 issue of Self magazine. She has a yellow Labrador Retriever named "Martha Stewart" (after the television personality of the same name), which appeared with her on the television show Martha on January 24, 2007. In December 2007, Garner was named The Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail's 2007 West Virginian of the Year "for her dedication, work ethic and unique role as role model and ambassador for West Virginia."³⁴

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1997	In Harm's Way	Kelly
	Deconstructing Harry	Woman in Elevator
	Washington Square	Marian Almond
	Mr. Magoo	Stacey Sampanahodrita
1998	1999	Annabell	Alternative title: Girls & Boys
2000	Dude, Where's My Car?	Wanda
2001	Pearl Harbor	Nurse Sandra
	Rennie's Landing	Kiley Bradshaw	Alternative title: Stealing Time
2002	Catch Me If You Can	Cheryl Ann	Cameo Role
2003	Daredevil	Elektra Natchios	MTV Movie Awards for Breakthrough Female Performance Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (shared with Ben Affleck) Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Chemistry (shared with Ben Affleck) Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress - Drama/Action Adventure Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Breakout Star - Female
2004	13 Going on 30	Jenna Rink	Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Performance (shared with Mark Ruffalo) Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Chemistry (shared with Mark Ruffalo) Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Blush Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress - Comedy Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Hissy Fit Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Liplock
2005	Elektra	Elektra Natchios	Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (shared with Natassia Malthe) Nominated – Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress: Action Adventure/Thriller
2006	Catch and Release	Gray
2007	The Kingdom	Janet Mayes	Alternative title: Operation: Kingdom
	Juno	Vanessa Loring	Nominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
2009	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	Jenny Perotti
	The Invention of Lying	Anna
	Be with You	Alice Higgins
2010	Valentine's Day35	Julia Fitzpatrick
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Danielle Steel's Zoya	Sasha	Television movie
1996	Harvest of Fire	Sarah Troyer	Television movie
	Dead Man's Walk	Clara Forsythe	Miniseries
	Swift Justice	Allison	Episode: "No Holds Barred"
	Law & Order	Jaime	Episode: "Aftershock"
	Spin City	Becky	Episode: "The Competition"
1997	The Player	Celia Levison	Television movie
	Rose Hill	Mary Rose Clayborne	Television movie
1998	Significant Others	Nell	6 episodes
1998-2002	Felicity	Hannah Bibb	3 episodes
1999	Aftershock: Earthquake in New York	Diane Agostini	Television movie
1999-2001	Time of Your Life	Romy Sullivan	19 episodes
2001-2006	Alias	Sydney Bristow	105 episodes Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Teen Choice Awards for Television - Choice Actress Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television (2004, 2005, 2006) Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005) Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama (2003, 2004, 2005) Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama (2003, 2004, 2005) Nominated – Television Critics Association for Individual Achievement in Drama Nominated – Teen Choice Awards for Choice Television Actress - Drama

References

External links

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NAME	Garner, Jennifer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Garner, Jennifer Anne
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	1972-4-17
PLACE OF BIRTH	Houston, Texas, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH