- Received a lifetime ban from playing blackjack at Las Vegas' Hard Rock Casino due to his card counting skills.
- Is known for being a very good impressionist. He usually picks one of his costars while filming a movie and studies them. He displays his impressions on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) almost every time he is a guest. While filming The Sum of All Fears (2002), he chose to study co-star Morgan Freeman. When he showed Morgan his impression on set, it was so accurate Freeman told him, "You ever do that again, I'll kill you".
- He won $356,000 by winning the California State Poker Championships in June 2004 - defeating some of the best poker players in the world in the process.
- He and Matt Damon sold their Good Will Hunting (1997) script for $600,000.
- His father was at one time a janitor at Harvard University, the inspiration for Will Hunting's job at MIT in Good Will Hunting (1997).
- When he and best friend Matt Damon were struggling actors, they both shared a Boston bank account.
- Was an extra with friend Matt Damon in Field of Dreams (1989).
- At forty years old, he is the oldest actor to be cast in the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman.
- The first director ever to win all the precursor awards (Golden Globe, BAFTA, Critics Choice and the Directors Guild awards) for Best Director after failing to earn an Oscar nomination for the same work, for Argo (2012). In fact, this is only time such an anomaly has ever occurred in any Oscar category (whether it'd be for directing, writing, acting etc.).
- He has the distinction of being the only actor to wear both a Batman suit and Superman suit in two different films.
- When he was little, he asked his mom for a dog, and she tested him by making him walk an imaginary dog for a week. Ben only lasted for 5 days and didn't get the dog.
- As a teenager, he lived in México where he learned to speak Spanish.
- At age 25, he was the youngest person ever to win an Oscar for 'Best Original Screenplay'. He went 15 years without another nomination until 2013, and won 'Best Picture' for Argo (2012).
- Charlie Sheen drove him to Promises Rehabilitation Center in August, 2001
- Majored in Middle Eastern affairs in college.
- Was only five-foot one when entering high school and describes himself as having been ''An awkward theater geek''.
- Growing up, the Marvel Comic book character Daredevil was his hero. He got to play the character in the 2003 movie.
- Quit smoking when Violet was born.
- Claims that his hero is Harrison Ford.
- Began an intense two-hour a day workout regime the day after he was cast as Batman.
- He is the tallest actor to play Bruce Wayne/Batman and is in fact an inch and half taller than the version seen in the comics who stands at six-feet two inches tall.
- Tenth cousin once removed of Matt Damon. They are both descendants of William Knowlton Jr., a bricklayer who came to the United States from England in the 1630s.
- He was inspired to contribute to the Neil Bogart Memorial Fund, which supports cancer research at Los Angeles Children's Hospital, after meeting Molly Hanna, who died of cancer in 2002. She was a student in his mother's fifth-grade class.
- Dec. 2007 - Ranked 50 in EW's The 50 Smartest People In Hollywood.
- Of the first three actors to play Jack Ryan, he was Tom Clancy's favourite.
- Is an avid fan of Robert Englund.
- Has 3 children: daughters, Violet Affleck (b. December 1, 2005) & Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck (b. January 6, 2009) and son, Samuel Garner Affleck (b. February 27, 2012) with ex-wife, Jennifer Garner.
- In 2001, was filming four movies simultaneously: Pearl Harbor (2001), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Changing Lanes (2002), and The Sum of All Fears (2002).
- In 1999, he was nominated for the Razzie Award, Worst Screen Couple in the movie Armageddon (1998), with actress Liv Tyler. In 2004, he was again nominated for, and subsequently "won", the Worst Screen Couple Award with co-star Jennifer Lopez in the movie Gigli (2003). One year later (2005), he was nominated, once again, for Worst Screen Couple, this time with both of the actresses (Jennifer Lopez or Liv Tyler) in the film Jersey Girl (2004).
- Was paid $1.5 million for doing commercials for L'Oreal Shampoo. (2003).
- Turned down the part of Bobby Mercer in Four Brothers (2005), as he found the script to be "ultra-violent". The part eventually went to Mark Wahlberg.
- Prior to achieving leading man status, he was often cast as a bully.
- Friend of and frequent collaborator with actor Matt Damon.
- At one point after Good Will Hunting (1997) was released, Affleck was writing a script with Matt Damon and his brother Casey Affleck. The plot concerned teenagers in a half way house. It is not clear if this script will ever be completed.
- Dropped out of Occidental College after 1 year, where he had studied Middle Eastern studies.
- He was accidently knocked unconscious by football player Dana Stubblefield during the filming of Reindeer Games (2000). Stubblefield slipped, and Affleck was knocked down. He was taken to the hospital, but fully recovered.
- Auditioned for Corey Haim's part in License to Drive (1988).
- With the exception of Clerks (1994), he has appeared in all of Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse films.
- He is the first actor to be cast as Bruce Wayne/Batman by two different directors.
- Appeared in a prop photo used in the movie Mermaids (1990).
- Has a Boston Celtics logo painted on the basketball court at his house.
- Appeared with ex-wife Jennifer Garner in two movies Daredevil (2003) and Pearl Harbor (2001). It would have been three, but Affleck's small scene in Elektra (2005), was cut from the final film.
- Since the Directors Guild started awarding its DGA award for Best Director in 1948, Affleck is only the third director to ever win this award while also failing to even be nominated for an Oscar as Best Director. The two other directors likewise snubbed by Academy voters were Ron Howard for Apollo 13 (1995) and Steven Spielberg for The Color Purple (1985).
- He has played two comic book characters whose most famous story lines were written by Frank Miller: Batman and Daredevil.
- When he was dating Jennifer Lopez, hated the paparazzi referring to them as "Bennifer."
- Had four different stunt men for Daredevil (2003), each one with a different specialty (fighting, wire works, etc.). He tried to do as much of his own stunts as he possibly could, feeling that it would add more credibility to the film.
- Tom Clancy wrote a script for a new Jack Ryan film entitled "Red Rabbit", with him in mind. "Red Rabbit" is set in the early 1980s, (when Clancy's novel version of Ryan was about Affleck's age) and chronicles a Soviet plot to kill Pope John Paul II only a few years into his reign.
- With his casting in Suicide Squad (2016), he is the first actor to play Bruce Wayne/Batman in two different films released in the same year.
- Named People Magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" (2002).
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