Biography

Jennifer Garner is the lean, athletic star of the action-adventure television series Alias (2001-06), in which she played American superspy Sydney Bristow. Garner began her acting career in New York in the mid-1990s, then moved to Los Angeles and won several small roles in television productions. Her regular appearances on TV's Felicity (1998) led to movie roles, including Dude, Where's My Car? (2000, with Ashton Kutcher) and Pearl Harbor (2001, starring Kate Beckinsale). More importantly, Felicity creator J. J. Abrams tapped Garner for the lead role in Alias (2001, co-starring Bradley Cooper), the hit show that made her a star. She made her way into feature films, including a small role in Catch Me If You Can (2002, starring Leonardo DiCaprio), and as comic heroine Elektra in Daredevil (2003, starring Ben Affleck) and Elektra (2005). Since then she's been a reliable lead in mostly romantic comedies, including 13 Going on 30 (2004, with Mark Ruffalo), Juno (2007, starring Ellen Page) and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009, starring Matthew McConaughey).

Garner married her Felicity co-star, Scott Foley, in 2000. They split up in 2003 and she was romantically linked to her Alias co-star, Michael Vartan. Garner began dating Ben Affleck, her co-star in Daredevil, in 2004, and on 29 June 2005 the two were married. They have two daughters.