ACTOR
Jennifer Garner
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- #001
While filming a sai/sword fight in Elektra (2005), Jennifer Garner accidentally had her knuckles sliced by Will Yun Lee. She had her knuckles repaired, and when she and Lee continued, he later sliced her again in the same spot.
- #002
Garner is a trained ballerina who initially gave up dance for stage acting.
- #003
Alias (2001) co-star Victor Garber got an Internet ordination so he could officiate at the wedding of Jennifer and Ben Affleck. Garber was present at the wedding alongside Garner and Affleck.
- #004
In both 13 Going on 30 (2004) and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), the younger version of her character was played by Christa B. Allen.
- #005
She once cleaned toilets as a summer job.
- #006
In 2006, she had her ears specially pierced so she could wear the $250,000 diamond chandelier-style earrings she wore to that year's Oscars ceremony, but she let her ears heal again after the ceremony.
- #007
Her father is a chemical engineer and her mother is an English teacher.
- #008
She was born in Texas but grew up in West Virginia.
- #009
She had a relationship with her Alias (2001) co-star Michael Vartan between 2003 and 2004.
- #010
She is part of the ownership group that launched a National Women's Soccer League franchise in Los Angeles, California (alongside Mia Hamm, Eva Longoria and Natalie Portman).
- #011
While still a struggling actress, Jennifer babysat for Stephen Colbert after meeting him as a guest star on The Competition (1996). Stephen and his wife Evelyn had a new daughter named Madeleine.
- #012
Her ancestry is English, with smaller amounts of Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German and Swiss-German.
- #013
When she finished filming The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012), she was three months pregnant with her son Samuel.
- #014
She was going to go to Yale University to study drama, but instead found acting work in New York.
- #015
One of her call signs on Alias (2001) is "Mountaineer." She grew up in West Virginia, and the Mountaineer is the mascot of West Virginia University.
- #016
She attended and graduated from George Washington High School in Charleston, West Virginia.
- #017
She wears green contact lenses in Daredevil (2003) and Elektra (2005), but the comic-book version of Elektra has brown eyes (her own natural color).
- #018
She earned her bachelor's degree in Theater Fine Arts from Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
- #019
While trying to launch her acting career, Jennifer Garner worked as a hostess at Isabella's restaurant in New York.
- #020
She appeared in two films with her husband Ben Affleck: Pearl Harbor (2001) and Daredevil (2003). A third was to follow, but Affleck's small scene in Elektra (2005) was cut from the final film.
- #021
She met her first husband, Scott Foley, on the set of Felicity (1998).
- #022
On August 20, 2018, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6920 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell and Judy Greer were the guest speakers at the ceremony.
- #023
She and Ben Affleck announced their separation on June 30, 2015, exactly ten years and one day after their wedding took place. On March 8, 2017, it was reported that they had called off the divorce, but the following month they filed for divorce again.
- #024
She is often confused with the actress Amy Jo Johnson. Garner admitted that she is sometimes asked to sign photographs that turn out to belong to Johnson.
- #025
In 13 Going on 30 (2004), her character is the editor of a magazine whose cover features Jennifer Lopez. Lopez was engaged to Garner's husband, Ben Affleck.
- #026
She is friends with Reese Witherspoon, Jessica Simpson, Keri Russell, Victor Garber and Jean Louisa Kelly.
- #027
She married Ben Affleck at the exclusive Parrot Cay resort in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean.
- #028
She registered to vote in the 2008 presidential election under the name 'Jennifer Affleck.'.
- #029
In 2009, Jennifer used the same church twice in two different films in which her character was married: The Invention of Lying (2009) and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009). The Martha-Mary Chapel was built by Henry Ford in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and dedicated to the mothers of Henry and Clara Ford, Martha Bryant and Mary Litogot Ford.
- #030
She ranked first on Maxim magazine's 2002 list of the 100 Hottest Women.
- #031
She is one of four actresses to play Clara Allen in the "Lonesome Dove" series. The role was first played by Anjelica Huston in Lonesome Dove (1989), then by Barbara Hershey in Return to Lonesome Dove (1993). Garner plays a younger, unmarried Clara Forsythe in Dead Man's Walk (1996). Linda Cardellini takes on the role in Comanche Moon (2008). Among the four actresses, she is the only one who, like the character, is from Texas.
- #032
She is a member of the Ohio Eta Chapter of the Pi Beta Phi national sorority.
- #033
Her husband Ben Affleck wanted to marry with a round-diamond eternity band by Neil Lane.
- #034
She is an avid beekeeper.
- #035
In a 2023 Glamour interview on YouTube, Jennifer Garner said that she only had her ears pierced in the last few years, which is why the earrings she wore in Felicity (1998) were clip-ons.
- #036
She was considered for the role of Carol Ferris in Green Lantern (2011), which went to Blake Lively.
- #037
Jennifer Garner is a board member of Save the Children USA, a nonprofit organization.
- #038
She turned down roles in Popular (1999), Get Real (1999) and Roswell (1999) in order to take a part in the film Time of Your Life (1999).
- #039
Despite a popular misconception, she is not related to James Garner, known for Maverick (1957) and The Rockford Files (1974).
- #040
Her wedding dress was by Vera Wang; Ben Affleck wore Hugo Boss.
- #041
She was set to play opposite Adam Sandler in Reign Over Me (2007) in the role that went to Liv Tyler, but she left a few weeks before filming began.
- #042
She was named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.
- #043
She is the sister-in-law of Casey Affleck and Summer Phoenix.
- #044
She and her husband Ben Affleck both had films released on January 26, 2007: hers was Catch and Release (2006) and his was Smokin' Aces (2006).
- #045
She was named 2007 West Virginian of the Year by the Charleston Gazette.
- #046
She ranked 3rd on Maxim magazine's 2005 list of the Top 100 Women.
- #047
She appeared with Chris Cooper and Danny Huston in The Kingdom (2007). Huston's sister, Anjelica Huston, appeared with Cooper in Lonesome Dove (1989). Garner played the younger version of Huston's character in Dead Man's Walk (1996).
- #048
In late January 2009, Jennifer and her older sister Melissa had their ears pierced during a visit to a medical center in Santa Monica, California. It was Jennifer's third time (she had let the previous piercings from 1999 and 2006 heal over), but Melissa's first.
- #049
For her performance in Elektra (2005), she was listed as a potential nominee for Worst Actress in the balloting for the 2006 Razzie Awards. She was not nominated.
- #050
She is the daughter of Patricia Ann Garner and William John Garner and has two sisters: Melissa Garner (who has a son named Jack) and Susannah Garner (who has a daughter named Emma).
- #051
She ranked 44th on Maxim magazine's 2008 list of the Top 100 Women.
- #052
She ranked 11th on Maxim magazine's 2003 list of the Top 100 Women.
- #053
She ranked 35th on Maxim magazine's 2007 list of the Top 100 Women.
- #054
She had a relationship with Michael Vartan (2003-2004) and was married to Scott Foley (2000-2004).
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