Jennifer Garner Biography

• • Jennifer Garner

  • Birth Date

    

    04/17/1972

  • Birthplace

    Houston, Texas

  • Credits

    14 Movies, 13 TV appearances, 4 awards

  Family

  Husband: Ben Affleck
  met in 2003, while working together on "Daredevil"; began dating in 2004; engaged April 2005; married Wednesday June 28, 2005, at the Parrot Cay resort in

  the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos

  

  Daughter: Violet Affleck
  born December 1, 2005 in Los Angeles, California; father, Ben Affleck

  Father: Bill Garner
  

  Mother: Pat Garner
  taught English

  Sister: Melissa Garner
  

  older

  Sister: Susannah Garner
  younger

• Hookups

  Companion: Michael Vartan
  met while working together on "Alias"; began dating May 2003; ended relationship July 2004

• Notes

  "I feel uncomfortable with people reading too much about my pregnancy or my relationship. It grosses me out. It's too sweet to read about or dissect or talk about."---Jennifer Garner, to InStyle, September 2005.
  "I think people understood that we were just two normal people who really loved each other. You know, we got quietly married in our backyard after being together for a couple of years," she says. "We never gave our wedding pictures out to be published. I think they got that we're both pretty brokenhearted about it."---Garner to W magazine, November 2003.
  "I was an understudy in a play, earning $150 a week. I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy."---Garner on her first gig, to US Weekly, September 16, 2002.
  "If you talk to anyone from my high school or college, they'd tell you I was always in sweats and basically a disaster at all times!"---Garner US April 19, 2004
  "Nobody else was involved, Jennifer became a huge celebrity. She became a huge star, and she deserved everything she got. There was no other relationship, there was no infidelity, nothing. People get divorced, you know?"---Scott Foley, on the separation with wife Jennifer Garner, to TV Guide, October 15, 2003.
  "You can never be too positive with a show. The important thing is to keep working. You never know when it is another 'Felicity,' something that seems like nothing that changes your life."---Garner on "Alias" to the West Virginia newspaper Charleston Daily Mail, May 23, 2001.
  Garner was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People for 2004
  Jennifer Garner on the challenges of "Pearl Harbor": "None of us women has really done an action film before and Michael [Bay] had never done an action film with women, so there were a lot of tears shed and a lot of pressure."---quoted in Movieline, April 2001.

• Milestones

  (1996) Acted in the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" TV-movie presentation "Harvest of Fire" (CBS)
  (1996) Appeared in "Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk", an ABC miniseries marking the fourth installment of the "Lonesome Dove" saga
  (1997) Appeared in the comedy "Mister Magoo"
  Cast in regular role opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt in the "Party of Five" spin-off series "The Time of Your Life"
  

  (1997) Featured in Agnieszka Holland's adaptation of Henry James' 19th-century New York-set classic "Washington Square"
  (2001) Featured in the World War II epic "Pearl Harbor" as an uptight nurse (1999) Featured in the two-part CBS TV-movie thriller "Aftershock: Earthquake in

  

  New York"
  (1996) Guested on an episode of the UPN police series "Swift Justice"
  (1997) Had a cameo in Woody Allen's "Deconstructing Harry"
  (2002) Had a small but memorable role as a provacative model in director Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can" (1995) Had early TV credit in the NBC miniseries "Danielle Steele's 'Zoya'"
  (1998-1999) Had recurring role on "Felicity", playing the girlfriend of Noel, the resident advisor played by her future husband Scott Foley
  (2000) Played Ashton Kutcher's girlfriend in "Dude, Where's My Car?"

• (2004) Played a thirteen year old who wishes to be older and wakes up a thirty year old in the comedy "13 going on 30"
  (2003) Played the exotic and deadly Elektra opposite Ben Affleck in "Daredevil"
  (2007) Portrayed a woman mourning her fiance's death in Susannah Grant's directorial debut "Catch and Release"
  Raised in West Virginia
  (2003) Received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role on "Alias"
  (2004) Received SAG, Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role on "Alias"
  (2005) Received an Emmy nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role on "Alias"
  (2005) Reprised her role from the 2003 film "Daredevil" to star in "Elektra"
  (1997) Starred as the grown incarnation of the abandoned baby adopted by a gang of NYC street kids who head west in the turn-of-the-century-set CBS TV-movie "Rose Hill", another presentation of the "Hallmark Hall of Fame"
  (1998) Was a regular on the short-lived Fox series "Significant Others"
  (1996) Was an understudy for the Broadway revival of "A Month in the Country", starring Helen Mirren
  Will co-star in Peter Berg's "The Kingdom"
  Will play the object of Kevin Kline's affection in the Broadway production of Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac"
  (2001-Present) Breakout role starring as student-turned-secret agent Sydney Bristow in the ABC spy series "Alias"