Ben Affleck: net worth, age, height, wife and children

Ben Affleck, born Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt on August 15, 1972, in Berkeley, California, is a 54-year-old American actor, director, screenwriter and producer whose estimated net worth is $300 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth, although other published estimates put the figure at $150 million. He won an Academy Award as co-writer of Good Will Hunting and a second as producer of the Best Picture winner Argo, played Batman across three DC films, and co-founded the production company Artists Equity with Matt Damon. He currently has no wife: his marriage to Jennifer Lopez ended with a divorce finalized in January 2025, and he has three children, Violet, Fin and Samuel, with his first wife, Jennifer Garner.

Quick facts

Biography and early life

Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt was born in Berkeley, California, on August 15, 1972, so his birthday falls in mid-August and he turned 54 in August 2026. His mother, Christopher Anne Boldt, known as Chris, was an elementary school teacher, and his father, Timothy Byers Affleck, worked at different times as a social worker, janitor, carpenter, electrician and bartender, and had been involved in theater in Boston. The family moved to Massachusetts when Ben was three, first to Falmouth, where his younger brother, the actor Casey Affleck, was born in 1975, and then settled in Cambridge. His parents later divorced, and his father struggled with alcoholism, a subject Affleck has discussed openly in connection with his own later treatment for alcohol addiction.

Affleck began acting as a child. A local casting director who was a friend of his mother’s arranged auditions for both brothers, and between the ages of eight and fifteen he starred in the PBS children’s science series The Voyage of the Mimi and its sequel, filming in Cambridge and Mexico. At the age of eight he met Matt Damon, who lived nearby and was two years older, beginning the friendship and creative partnership that would define his career. He attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, graduated in 1990, and after small roles in films including School Ties began the run of work that led to his breakthrough.

Career: acting, writing and directing

Affleck’s early film roles included the bully O’Bannion in Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused in 1993 and parts in Kevin Smith’s Mallrats in 1995 and Chasing Amy in 1997. The turning point was Good Will Hunting in 1997, which he co-wrote with Damon from a project Damon had begun at Harvard. Frustrated by the roles available to them, the two wrote parts for themselves, and the film earned nine Academy Award nominations. Their win for Best Original Screenplay, at ages 25 and 27, made them stars overnight. Blockbuster work followed: Armageddon and Shakespeare in Love in 1998, Pearl Harbor in 2001, The Sum of All Fears in 2002, and the superhero film Daredevil and the notorious failure Gigli in 2003, a period in which tabloid attention on his private life overshadowed his work.

His reinvention came behind the camera. He made his directorial debut with the acclaimed crime drama Gone Baby Gone in 2007, directed and starred in The Town in 2010, and directed and produced Argo, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2013. As an actor he won praise in Gone Girl in 2014, played Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016, Justice League in 2017 and The Flash in 2023, and gave one of his most personal performances as a recovering alcoholic in The Way Back in 2020. In 2022 he and Damon co-founded Artists Equity, a production company designed to share profits more widely with cast and crew, and its first major release was Air in 2023, which Affleck directed and starred in as Nike co-founder Phil Knight. He returned as Christian Wolff in The Accountant 2 in 2025. According to Celebrity Net Worth, his selected career salaries alone total more than $135 million, including $15 million for Paycheck, $12.5 million for Gigli and $20 million for Batman v Superman.

Movies and television shows

Affleck’s best-known screen credits include the following.

• The Voyage of the Mimi (1984, television)
• Dazed and Confused (1993), Mallrats (1995) and Chasing Amy (1997)
• Good Will Hunting (1997, co-writer and actor)
• Armageddon (1998) and Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• Pearl Harbor (2001), The Sum of All Fears (2002), Daredevil (2003) and Gigli (2003)
• Gone Baby Gone (2007, director), The Town (2010) and Argo (2012)
• Gone Girl (2014)
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Justice League (2017) and The Flash (2023)
• The Way Back (2020)
• Air (2023, director and actor) and The Accountant 2 (2025)

Few careers contain both halves of that list: the blockbuster leading-man years and a second act as an Academy Award-winning director and producer. It is the combination, rather than either half alone, that explains his standing in the industry.

Net worth

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Ben Affleck has a net worth of $300 million. Other published estimates, including Parade’s, put his net worth at $150 million, and the disagreement has a specific, reported cause. Celebrity Net Worth states that the $300 million figure was enormously benefited in March 2026, when Affleck sold InterPositive, an artificial intelligence filmmaking company he had quietly founded in 2022, to Netflix in a deal reported to be worth up to $600 million depending on performance milestones. Estimates published before that sale, or which do not count its full potential value, cluster around the older $150 million figure. Readers should treat both totals as estimates built on different assumptions about the same transaction.

The underlying earnings are easier to verify. Celebrity Net Worth tallies more than $135 million in selected film salaries across his career, from about $325,000 for his share of the Good Will Hunting screenplay sale to repeated $10 million to $20 million paychecks in the 2000s and 2010s. He was paid a reported $10 million for a single 30-second Dunkin’ Super Bowl commercial in 2023, which his company Artists Equity also produced. His co-ownership of Artists Equity, launched with $100 million in backing in 2022, is now the center of his business activity alongside acting and directing fees.

Personal life and family

The wife question requires a direct answer, because Affleck’s marriages are among the most reported in Hollywood. He currently has no wife. His first marriage was to actress Jennifer Garner, whom he married in 2005. They have three children together: Violet Anne Affleck, born on December 1, 2005; Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck, born on January 6, 2009, who introduced the name Fin in April 2024; and Samuel Garner Affleck, born on February 27, 2012. Affleck and Garner announced their separation in 2015, and their divorce was finalized in 2018. They have since been widely reported as cooperative co-parents.

Affleck had first dated singer and actress Jennifer Lopez from 2002 to 2004, an engagement that was called off under intense media attention. The couple reunited in 2021 and married in Las Vegas on July 16, 2022, followed by a second ceremony in Georgia. Lopez filed for divorce in August 2024, and the divorce was finalized in January 2025, with January 6, 2025 reported as the date the marriage was legally dissolved. Any biography that presents Jennifer Lopez, or Jennifer Garner, as Affleck’s current wife is out of date: both are former wives, and as of late 2026 he is not married. His family also includes his parents, Timothy and Christopher Anne Affleck, and his younger brother Casey Affleck, an Academy Award-winning actor in his own right.

House and real estate

Affleck’s current home dates from the end of his second marriage. In July 2024 he bought a $20.5 million house in the Sullivan Canyon area, on the border of Brentwood and Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, closing the purchase on July 24, 2024. According to Celebrity Net Worth, he took out a $10 million mortgage for the five-bedroom property, which sits next to the longtime estate of the late Diane Keaton. It is the home he moved to as the marriage to Lopez ended, and it remains his Los Angeles base.

The formerly shared mansion has a longer story. In May 2023, Affleck and Lopez bought a large Beverly Hills, Beverly Crest, estate for about $60.85 million. They listed it for $68 million in July 2024, then cut the price repeatedly, to $59.95 million and then $52 million, delisting it more than once when no buyer completed a purchase. Their January 2025 divorce settlement originally provided for the couple to split any profits from a sale. In April 2026, according to court-document reporting, Affleck transferred his share of the property to Lopez, who relisted it at about $49.95 million; later reporting in 2026 said an offer on the house had been accepted, although a final closed sale price has not been confirmed in the reporting used here. Affleck’s earlier homes include a Pacific Palisades house bought for $19 million in 2018 and sold in 2022 for his full $29.995 million asking price, and the Pacific Palisades home he bought with Garner in 2009 for $17.55 million and sold, with her, to singer Adam Levine in December 2018 for $32 million. Readers researching the other routes into property ownership can compare those conventional purchases with a guide to buying property at auction, a very different way of acquiring a home.

Instagram and public presence

Ben Affleck has no public official Instagram account, and readers should not trust the handles that biography sites attach to his name. In October 2026, Parade reported his own explanation, given to Variety: he was banned from Instagram twice for impersonating himself, on an account that had only six followers, his children and some of their friends. A small private account attributed to him was reported as far back as 2020, but it was never established as a public official profile, and accounts using obvious versions of his name, including large ones, are fan or impersonator pages rather than a verified public presence. The honest answer to the Instagram question is that there is no public Affleck account to follow; his public statements reach audiences through interviews, his companies and the press.

Closing summary

Ben Affleck’s profile spans child acting, an Oscar-winning screenplay written with his childhood friend, blockbuster stardom, a public career dip, and a second act as a director, producer and studio founder. Born Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt on August 15, 1972, in Berkeley to Timothy Affleck and Christopher Anne Boldt, and raised in Cambridge alongside his brother Casey, he holds an estimated net worth of $300 million according to Celebrity Net Worth, with other estimates at $150 million. He is the father of Violet, Fin and Samuel with his former wife Jennifer Garner, his marriage to Jennifer Lopez ended in a divorce finalized in January 2025, and he lives in the Los Angeles home he bought in July 2024.