46 Facts About Ben Affleck

1. Ben Affleck has reportedly returned to rehab just one month after completing a 40-day stint.

2. Ben Affleck 'returns to rehab' a month after 40-day stint.

3. Ben Affleck calls for support for firefighters battling deadly Calif.

4. Ben Affleck filming basketball movie 'Torrance' at Chaffey High School this month.

5. Ben Affleck has reportedly been back in the rehab clinic—after finishing a 40-day stint last month at a clinic in Malibu.

6. Ben Affleck returns to rehab to battle the booze after split from Jennifer Garner.

7. Ben Affleck is back to work on his new film Torrance! The 46-year-old actor was spotted on the set of the movie on Friday afternoon in Los Angeles.

8. Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck had a friendly reunion at Sunday church service with their three kids—Samuel, Seraphina, and Violet—in LA over the weekend.

9. Ben Affleck is in need of a ride! The 46-year-old actor was seen on the set of his upcoming movie Torrance on Wednesday in Los Angeles.

10. Ben Affleck has repeatedly denied tabloid reports of a gambling addiction.

11. Ben Affleck won the 2004 California State Poker Championship, taking home the first prize of $356,400 and qualifying for the 2004 World Poker Tour final tournament.

12. Ben Affleck dated television producer Lindsay Shookus from mid-2017 to mid-2018.

13. Ben Affleck began dating actress Jennifer Garner in mid-2004, having established a friendship on the sets of Pearl Harbor and Daredevil (2003).

14. In 2013, Ben Affleck said he and Lopez occasionally "touch base".

15. Ben Affleck hosted a 2012 fundraiser for Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, endorsed her in a Progressive Change Campaign Committee video, and made a campaign donation.

16. In 2006, Ben Affleck contributed to Cory Booker's Newark mayoral campaign, and introduced Congressmen Joe Courtney and Chris Murphy at rallies in Connecticut.

17. In 2000, Ben Affleck introduced Senate candidate Hillary Clinton at a Cornell University rally and helped fundraise for her campaign.

18. Ben Affleck urged voters to "help make history" in a MoveOn.

19. Ben Affleck appeared alongside then-Senator Barack Obama at a 2006 rally, introducing him as "the most galvanizing leader to come out of either party, in my opinion, in at least a decade".

20. Ben Affleck took part in a voter registration public service announcement, and traveled with Kerry during the opening weekend of his Believe in America Tour, making speeches at rallies in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio.

21. Ben Affleck was involved in the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry.

22. Ben Affleck registered to vote as a Democrat in 1992, and has campaigned on behalf of several Democratic presidential nominees.

23. In 2016, Ben Affleck filmed an endorsement for Rezpect Our Water, an online petition to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

24. Ben Affleck appeared alongside then-Senator Barack Obama at a 2006 rally in support of Proposition 87, which sought to reduce petroleum consumption in favor of alternative energy.

25. Ben Affleck engaged in a discussion about the relationship between liberal principles and Islam during a 2014 appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher.

26. Ben Affleck appeared at a press conference with New York Senator Chuck Schumer in 2002, in support of a proposed Anti-Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Act.

27. Ben Affleck filmed a public service announcement for Divided We Fail, a nonpartisan AARP campaign seeking affordable, quality healthcare for all Americans, in 2007.

28. Ben Affleck spoke at a Feeding America rally in Washington DC in 2009, and filmed a public service announcement for the charity in 2010.

29. As part of USO-sponsored tours, Ben Affleck visited marines stationed in the Persian Gulf in 2003, and troops at Germany's Ramstein Air Base in 2017.

30. Ben Affleck appeared in CinemAbility, a documentary film which explores Hollywood's portrayals of people with disabilities.

31. In 2007, Ben Affleck was the keynote speaker at Kindregan's high school graduation ceremony in Fairfax, Virginia.

32. Ben Affleck has written op-eds about issues facing eastern Congo for the Washington Post, Politico, the Huffington Post, and Time.

33. Ben Affleck reprised his role as Batman twice, making a cameo appearance in Suicide Squad and starring in Justice League (2017).

34. Ben Affleck played a congressman in the political thriller State of Play.

35. In 2007, Ben Affleck made his feature film directorial debut with Gone Baby Gone, a crime drama set in a working-class Boston neighborhood, starring his brother Casey.

36. In his last film role of 2003, Ben Affleck starred as a reverse engineer in the sci-fi thriller Paycheck.

37. Ben Affleck was a longtime comic book fan, and had written a foreword for Kevin Smith's Guardian Devil about his love for the character of Daredevil.

38. Ben Affleck became more involved with television and film production in the early 2000s.

39. Ben Affleck reunited with director Michael Bay for the critically derided war drama Pearl Harbor.

40. In his last film role of 2000, Ben Affleck starred opposite his girlfriend Paltrow in the romantic drama Bounce.

41. Ben Affleck starred opposite Sandra Bullock in the romantic comedy Forces of Nature, playing a groom whose attempts to get to his wedding are complicated by his free-spirited traveling companion.

42. Ben Affleck began to worry that he would be relegated to a career of "throwing people into their lockers", but Smith put him in the lead role in Smith's romantic comedy Chasing Amy.

43. Ben Affleck worked "sporadically" on Mimi from the age of eight to fifteen in both Massachusetts and Mexico.

44. Ben Affleck is the co-founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative, a grantmaking and advocacy-based nonprofit organization.

45. In 2016, Ben Affleck began playing Batman in the DC Extended Universe, starred in the action thriller The Accountant, and directed, wrote and acted in the gangster drama Live by Night.

46. Ben Affleck gained wider recognition when he and childhood friend Matt Damon won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for writing Good Will Hunting, which they starred in.