Jennifer Garner is a famous American actress who got her big break as the lead on the television show
Alias, about a CIA agent who takes on many different personas as she carries out secret missions. Her film credits include
Pearl Harbor, Catch Me if You Can, Daredevil, Elektra,
Juno, and Dude, Where’s My Car?.
In her youth, she had a love for dancing, starting at the age of three. In college, she decided acting was her future, and she changed majors from chemistry to drama. She began her acting career humbly, moving to New York City and becoming an understudy in a theater production. From there, she got small roles on television, including a made-for-television movie, a role on an episode of Spin City, the programs Significant Others and Time of Your Life, and a prominent role on the show Felicity.
In 2001, she got her big breaks, appearing in Dude, Where’s My Car?, the box-office smash
Pearl Harbor, and the television program
Alias. On the set of
Alias, she began a long relationship with her co-star
Michael Vartan.
Other prominent men she has dated include actor Scott Foley, whom she met while working on Felicity, and her Daredevil co-star
Ben Affleck. Garner and Affleck went on to marry in 2005 and have a daughter, Violet Anne Affleck.
