Last updated: Saturday, October 10, 2009

AFFLECK AND DAMON ARE RELATED

Genealogy experts have discovered movie pals BEN AFFLECK and MATT DAMON are 10th cousins.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon at Ante Up for Africa celebrity poker tournament at the Rio Hotel & Casino.
Las Vegas, Nevada - 02.07.09

The actors are childhood friends from the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts and found fame together starring alongside each other in a number of movies, and winning an Oscar each for their 1997 screenplay Good Will Hunting.

New research from the New England Historic Genealogical Society has delved back through their ancestry and uncovered a common 10th great-grandfather, William Knowlton, a bricklayer who hailed from 17th century Ipswich, England.

The society also claims to have linked Affleck to Barack Obama and Damon to six or seven American presidents, reports TMZ.com.

Related News:

- AFFLECK AND GARNER PLAN ANOTHER MOVIE COLLABORATION
- DAMON WRITES ABOUT CLEAN WATER WOES
- DAMON & PITT'S GAY CLOONEY JOKE PROMPTED MAN TO STRIP
- THE THINGS THEY SAY: MATT DAMON
- DAMON HAD 'FUNNEST TIME' AS A FATTY

Source: WENN

0 COMMMENT
POST A COMMENT
 

---

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:
PIERCE RETURNS TO CHILDHOOD CHURCH  
Former FRASIER actor DAVID HYDE PIERCE will be the star attraction on Sunday (11Oct09) when he returns to his childhood church to play the organ.

MORE NEWS:
. KARDASHIAN: 'WHIRLWIND WEDDING WAS CRAZY'
. JAY-Z INSPIRED BY MICHAEL
. SHYNE DENIES JAIL TIME CHATS WITH COMBS
. WINEHOUSE UNDERGOES BOOB JOB - REPORT
. KEYS DESIGNING JEWELLERY LINE
. BURNS' DOG FOUND
. FOX'S DOG HAS PNEUMONIA
. TYSON DOESN'T WANT TO KNOW HOW DAUGHTER DIED
. FASCINATING FACT: BARRY MANILOW
. AZARIA FREAKED OUT BY JACKSON'S SIMPSONS CAMEO