MATT DAMON is one of Hollywood’s most sought-after talents.  Most recently he reprised his starring roles as Jason Bourne in the The Bourne Ultimatum for director Paul Greengrass as well as the infamous Linus Caldwell in Ocean’s Thirteen for director Steven Soderbergh.

Audiences will next see Damon reteam with director Paul Greengrass on The Green Zone and with director Steven Soderbergh on The Informant.

Damon will begin shooting The Human Factor for director Clint Eastwood in February 2009. He stars in the film alongside Morgan Freeman.

In 2006, Damon was appear alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson in the Academy Award winning film The Departed for director Martin Scorsese and in The Good Shepherd with Angelina Jolie for director Robert DeNiro.

In 2005, Damon starred with George Clooney in the geopolitical thriller Syriana for director Stephen Gaghan and in The Brothers Grimm with Heath Ledger for director Terry Gilliam. 

In 2004, Damon portrayed Linus Caldwell for the second time in Ocean’s Twelve for director Steven Soderbergh, and Jason Bourne for director Paul Greengrass in the boxoffice hit The Bourne Supremacy, the second installment in the series following The Bourne Identity.

Prior to these films, Damon starred with Greg Kinnear in the Farrelly Brothers comedy Stuck On You in 2003.

In 2002, he starred as Jason Bourne in The Bourne Identity for director Doug Liman and in Gerry with Casey Affleck for director Gus Van Sant and in 2001 he starred in Oceans Eleven.

In 2000, audiences saw Damon star in the film version of the Cormick McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses for director Billy Bob Thornton and in The Legend of Bagger Vance, for director Robert Redford.

In 1999, Damon starred in Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor.  That same year he rejoined Chasing Amy director Kevin Smith and pal Ben Affleck in Dogma, a film about a pair of outcast angels.

In 1998, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with longtime friend Ben Affleck for the critically-acclaimed drama Good Will Hunting, a coming-of-age story about a young mathematical genius who, due to his upbringing in inner-city Boston, can’t live up to his potential.  Damon also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his work in the title role.  In addition, both he and Affleck received a Golden Globe Award for their screenplay, and Damon also garnered a Golden Globe nomination for his performance.  The film, directed by Gus Van Sant, received seven additional Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture and a win for Robin Williams for Best Supporting Actor. 

In the same year, Damon starred in the title role of the World War II drama Saving Private Ryan for Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg, and in John Dahl’s Rounders, about a reformed gambler who is drawn back into New York’s underground poker world to help a recently paroled friend pay off loan sharks.

In 1997, Damon made a cameo appearance in Kevin Smith’s Chasing Amy and, in the same year, he starred as an idealistic young attorney in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rainmaker, based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham.

Damon first gained the public’s eye in 1996, when he gave a vivid performance in Courage Under Fire, in which he portrayed a guilt-ridden Persian Gulf War soldier tormented by an incident which happened in the heat of battle.

The versatile young actor made his feature film debut in 1988 in a small role in the critically well-received Mystic Pizza.  He went on to play Brian Dennehy’s medical school dropout in the TV movie Rising Son (TNT, 1990) and gained further attention when he returned to the big screen as a fascist preppy in School Ties (1992).

For director Walter Hill, Damon enjoyed a sizeable supporting role as the green second lieutenant new to the West who narrates Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) and in 1995, he appeared in The Good Old Boys, directed by Tommy Lee Jones for TNT. 

In addition to their work in front of the camera, Damon and Affleck partnered to form LivePlanet Productions.  This unique company produces feature films, television series and new media projects. LivePlanet produced three Emmy-nominated seasons of Project Greenlight, the documentary series chronicling the making of an independent feature films by a first time writer and director. The three Project Greenlight films produced for Miramax/Dimension were Stolen Summer, The Battle of Shaker Heights, and Feast. The latest LivePlanet project is Running the Sahara, a documentary about three men running across the Sahara Desert, which is directed by Academy Award winner James Moll.