28 Facts About Matt Damon

1. Matt Damon talks about getting teary over the Red Sox.

2. Matt Damon is all smiles as he signs a couple of autographs for fan after grabbing dinner on Thursday night in Beverly Hills, Calif.

3. Matt Damon fans will be pleased to know they could share a favorite movie with the "Creed II" star.

4. Matt Damon is mostly known as the face of Bourne, as he starred in four Jason Bourne films between 2002 and 2016.

5. Matt Damon is rumored to have went into contract on a unit asking $16.6 million.

6. Matt Damon has kept busy for more than two decades, turning in memorable performances in high-profile films such as Good Will Hunting, Saving Private Ryan and the Bourne movies.

7. On January 17, 2018, Matt Damon apologized on The Today Show for his social commentary stating: "I should get in the back seat and close my mouth for a while.

8. In 2010, Matt Damon narrated the documentary film Inside Job about the part played by financial deregulation in the late-2000s financial crisis.

9. Matt Damon had a working relationship with the Obama administration, primarily due to his friendship with former Harvard roommate and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to President Obama, Jason Furman.

10. Matt Damon appeared in several of E! Entertainment's top ten Jimmy Kimmel Live! spoofs.

11. Matt Damon is a board member of Tonic Mailstopper, a company that attempts to halt junk mail delivered to American homes each day.

12. Matt Damon is a spokesperson for Feeding America, a hunger-relief organization, and a member of their Entertainment Council, participating in their Ad Council public service announcements.

13. Matt Damon is an ambassador for ONEXONE, a nonprofit foundation committed to supporting, preserving and improving the lives of children at home in Canada, the United States, and around the world.

14. Matt Damon was the founder of H2O Africa Foundation, the charitable arm of the Running the Sahara expedition, which merged with WaterPartners to create Water.

15. Matt Damon provided voice-over for United Airlines's resurrected "Fly the Friendly Skies" advertisement campaign in 2013.

16. In 2013, Matt Damon appeared in a 20-second advertisement for Nespresso, directed by Grant Heslov, with whom he worked on The Monuments Men.

17. In January 2012, it was announced that Matt Damon had signed a multiyear deal to be the voice of TD Ameritrade advertisements, replacing Sam Waterston as the discount brokerage's spokesman.

18. In 2017, Matt Damon played the lead role in Zhang Yimou's The Great Wall, a hit internationally and a disappointment at the domestic box office.

19. Matt Damon starred in the science fiction film Elysium, where he played former car-thief-turned-factory-worker Max DeCosta.

20. Matt Damon had an uncredited cameo in Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth and another cameo in the 2008 Che Guevara biopic Che.

21. Matt Damon said that before The Bourne Identity he was jobless for six months, and many of his films during that period under-performed at the box-office.

22. Matt Damon received an Academy Award for the screenplay of Good Will Hunting in 1998.

23. Matt Damon was a member of the Delphic Club, one of the University's select Final Clubs.

24. Matt Damon attended Harvard University, where he was a resident of Lowell House and a member of the class of 1992, but left before receiving his degree to take a lead role in the film Geronimo: An American Legend.

25. Matt Damon performed as an actor in several high school theater productions.

26. Matt Damon is married to Luciana Bozan Barroso, and they have four daughters together.

27. Matt Damon has received Emmy Award nominations for his portrayal of Scott Thorson in the biopic Behind the Candelabra and for producing the reality series Project Greenlight.

28. Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Matt Damon began his acting career by appearing in high school theater productions.