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- Matt Damon is an actor and author, identified for his roles in ‘Good Will Hunting’, ‘The Martian’, and far more.
- Matt has been married to Luciana Bozan since 2005.
- Matt and Luciana have three daughters, and he’s a stepfather to her daughter from a earlier relationship.
Matt Damon is likely one of the most critically-acclaimed actors of the previous 25 years. After his breakout because the star of Good Will Hunting, which he additionally wrote and gained an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Matt has gone on to seem in loads of beloved films and critically-acclaimed movies, like The Martian, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and The Departed.
In 2003, Matt met Luciana Bozan, and the couple obtained married two years later. Almost 20 years after tying the knot, they’re nonetheless going sturdy, they usually’re mother and father to 3 daughters: Isabella, 16, Gia, 14, and Stella, 12. Matt can be a stepdad to Luciana’s daughter Alexia Barroso, 24, from her earlier marriage. It’s clear that he’s a doting father to all of his ladies. Recently, Matt’s three daughters all got here to assist him on the premiere of his upcoming movie Air in March 2023. Find out extra about all of Matt’s daughters right here.
Alexia Barroso
Before marrying Matt, Luciana was married to Arbello Barroso, they usually had a daughter Alexia in 1999. When the Good Will Hunting star and Luciana obtained married, he grew to become a stepfather to Alexia, and it’s clear that he thinks of her as considered one of his personal. Matt revealed that when his stepdaughter was 10, he introduced her to her first live performance, which was none apart from Prince, who in addition they met after the present, in a 2016 interview on The Tonight Show. He joked that it could probably “ruin” future concert events for her, because it was such an epic first expertise. Alexia had even made a cameo in his 2011 movie We Bought A Zoo, per IMDb. When Alexia was a younger grownup, Matt had admitted that she was planning to maneuver out quickly in an August 2021 interview with RadioTimes. “Our almost 20-year-old will soon be out of the nest,” he stated, per DailyMail.
Luciana opened up about how when she met Matt she was a single mother, and she or he was prioritizing her baby, in a May 2018 interview with Vogue Australia. “He said: ‘I love that you’re a mum and that’s your priority’. Some guys might have been different, they might think it’s complicated, but for him it wasn’t. When you meet somebody that you have a connection with, that’s just the person that you have a connection with, all the other stuff— the movie-star part—wasn’t really a factor,” she stated.
Isabella
Shortly after tying the knot in 2005, Matt and Luciana welcomed their eldest daughter collectively Isabella in 2006. The actor admitted that his oldest truly tends to keep away from his hottest films, as a result of she desires to have the ability to roast him. “She doesn’t want to see any movies that I’m in that she thinks might be good, he said in a July 2021 interview with CBS Sunday Morning. “She just likes to give me s**t… She keeps my feet firmly on the ground.”
Besides preserving him humble about his films, Matt has additionally admitted that Isabella has helped him be taught and develop as an individual. He admitted to utilizing the f-slur in a joke, and his daughter defined to him how utilizing the time period was dangerous and offensive to the LGBTQ+ neighborhood. “I made a joke, months ago, and got a treatise from my daughter,” he stated in a 2021 interview with The Sunday Times. “She went to her room and wrote a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous. I said, ‘I retire the f-slur!’ I understood.”
After some backlash to him sharing the story, Matt additional defined that he had by no means directed the slur at anybody and gave extra context in an announcement to The Hollywood Reporter. “I do not use slurs of any kind. I have learned that eradicating prejudice requires active movement toward justice rather than finding passive comfort in imagining myself ‘one of the good guys’. And given that open hostility against the LGBTQ+ community is still not uncommon, I understand why my statement led many to assume the worst. To be as clear as I can be, I stand with the LGBTQ+ community,” he stated.
Gia Zavala
Luciana gave delivery to her and Matt’s second baby collectively Gia in August 2008. While Matt sometimes speaks about his daughters in interviews they usually generally be part of him at red-carpet occasions, the pair do principally preserve their kids out of the highlight. Shortly earlier than Gia was born, Matt did joke about being the one male member of his household in an interview with USA Today. “I’m so outnumbered down here, it’s crazy,” he stated. Matt had additionally revealed that each Gia and Alexia had had COVID in a September 2021 GQ profile.
Stella
Matt and Luciana’s youngest daughter Stella was born in 2010. Like her older sisters, the couple have principally saved her life non-public. Luciana did open up about what values she and Matt have been attempting to lift their daughters with within the aforementioned Vogue Australia interview. “The thing for us has always been that just we try really hard to constantly talk about self-esteem and compassion, and hope that will carry on,” she stated. “I just hope that they know how respect themselves and respect others and to not hold back and do what they want to do, but always have in mind the affect on another human being. I want them to feel like they can do anything and everything they want to do, to just have to go for it and try and don’t let anything stand in their way but not at the cost of somebody else.”