Date of Birth: Oct. 8, 1970

Relationships:
Luciana Barroso, wife (March 2003 to present)
Odessa Whitmire, ex-girlfriend (2001 to Oct. 2003)
Winona Ryder, ex-girlfriend (Dec. 1997 to April 2000)
Minnie Driver, ex-girlfriend (June 1997 to Jan. 1998)

Children:
Isabella Damon, daughter (11/6/2006)
Gia Zavala Damon, daughter (20/8/2008)
Alexia Barroso, stepdaughter (1998)

Biography:
Damon graduates from Cambridge Rindge & Latin High, where he was active in theatre and friends with Ben Affleck.

He attends Harvard, majoring in English literature. Just 12 credits shy of getting his degree, he drops out to pursue acting. First gig: a one-liner in 1988's Mystic Pizza with Julia Roberts.

He moves to LA in 1991 where he rooms with Affleck and Affleck's brother Casey and works on the script that eventually becomes Good Will Hunting. They sell it in 1994 to Miramax for $600,000.

Drops 18 kilos in 100 days for his breakthrough performance in 1996's Courage Under Fire as a Gulf War veteran addicted to heroin.

In his first starring role, Damon appears as a crusading lawyer in a film adaptation of John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Good Will Hunting grabs nine Oscar nominations in 1997, including two for Damon (Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay with Affleck). Damon loses to Jack Nicholson in the Best Actor category, but he and Affleck win the best screenplay Oscar.

Affleck's girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow introduces Damon to Winona Ryder at a New Year's Eve party, and they date until April 2000. But girlfriend of seven months, Minnie Driver, claims to have found out of her breakup from Damon on a January 12 appearance of his on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where he said, "I care about her a lot. We kind of decided it wasn't meant to be."

Steven Spielberg's World War II adventure Saving Private Ryan is released in 1998 with Damon in the title role. He works solidly in films like The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), All the Pretty Horses (2000) and Ocean's 11 (2001).

Damon makes his debut as an action hero in 2002's The Bourne Identity which spawns two sequels, The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).

In 2004 Damon brought girlfriend Luciana Barroso, a part-time bartender in Miami Beach, home to meet his family and friends in Boston. The pair wed on Dec. 9 in a top-secret ceremony at Manhattan's City Hall.

Damon and his wife Luciana, welcome daughter Isabella on June 11, 2006.

After years of honorable mentions, Damon is finally named PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive in 2007.

In August 2008, the Damon's welcome their second child together, daughter Gia Zavala, on September 18.