Matt Damon

Matt Damon is an Academy Award winning actor and screen-writer. Along with best friend Ben Affleck, Damon acquired fame through their first film Good Will Hunting, which the duo both wrote and starred in. Since then, Damon has been in a number of successful roles, including the Bourne and Oceans film series.

In December of 2005, he married his wife, Luciana, the couple currently has two daughters together, and share a daughter from Luciana's previous marriage.

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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Are Related

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From: beantownbloggery.com

I would love to meet the person who's specific job it was to figure this out. It's like playing that Kevin Bacon game, but doing it for a living. Apparently, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are distantly related.

According to the New England Genealogical Society, they're also cousins. Tenth cousins, once removed, that is. Society researchers dug up evidence that both Damon and Affleck are descended from William Knowlton, Jr., a bricklayer who came to the U.S. from England in the 1630s and settled in Ipswich.

I guess it makes for interesting trivia to map out the family trees of celebrities. But honestly, I'm not even sure what a "tenth cousin, once removed" is. A cousin of one of my cousins = a 2nd cousin right? What does "once removed" mean?

I'm Chinese, so we keep it simple. I just call everyone "uncle" or "auntie."

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