Jennifer Garner is an American actress, producer, and director. She rose to prominence for her role as CIA officer Sydney Bristow in the ABC spy-action thriller Alias, which aired from 2001 to 2006. For her work on the series, she won a Golden Globe Award and a Saturn Award.
Jennifer Garner was born on April 17, 1972, in Houston, Texas. Her mother, Patricia Ann (née English), was a homemaker, and her father, William John Garner, was a chemical engineer. She has two older sisters, Melissa Wylie and Susannah Carpenter. Garner was raised a Baptist. When she was four years old, her family moved to Charleston, West Virginia, where her father worked as a professor at the University of Charleston. Garner has described herself as a “happy kid”, with a “great childhood”, in a 2014 interview.
Garner made her film debut in the made-for-television movie Rose Hill in 1997. She received her breakthrough role in the action spy-thriller Alias in 2001. For her work on the series, Garner won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television, in 2002. Garner has appeared in a variety of films, including the romantic comedies 13 Going on 30 (2004) and Juno (2007). She has also starred in the action-comedy films Elektra (2005) and Daredevil (2003).
Garner married actor Scott Foley in October 2000. The couple divorced in March 2004. Garner began dating actor Ben Affleck in mid-2004, and they married on June 29, 2005, in a private ceremony in the Caribbean. The couple have three children: daughters Violet Affleck and Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck, and son Samuel Garner Affleck.
She has received several awards and nominations throughout her career. She won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television, both in 2002, for her work on Alias.
Here are 15 Insightful Quotes By Jennifer Garner That Would Encourage You To Express Yourself
1. “Well, you can’t be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there’s going to be a flip side to it.” – Jennifer Garner
2. “I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.” – Jennifer Garner
3. “I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage. – Jennifer Garner
4. “I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That’s what I try to remember.” – Jennifer Garner
5. “I’m a peace-maker, I can fit into a lot of situations. I’m pretty easygoing. I have a lot of patience.“ – Jennifer Garner
6. “I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside.” – Jennifer Garner
7. “My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.“– Jennifer Garner
8. “I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.” – Jennifer Garner
9. “Why does everyone think they need to be a star? It’s ridiculous. The celebrity culture is so silly, and the fact that people grow up thinking that it’s something to aspire to just seems wrong. I don’t mean to bash my life. I love my life; I just think it’s not the only way to go.” – Jennifer Garner
10. “The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do, and I know every job comes with a downside.“ – Jennifer Garner
11. “Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you’ve lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren’t too bad, what more do you need?” – Jennifer Garner
12. “I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can’t worry about it too much.“ – Jennifer Garner
13. “Women should take care of each other, not tear each other down.” – Jennifer Garner
14. “It’s not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways, and fragile and vulnerable in others?“ – Jennifer Garner
15. “I know enough to know that when you’re in a pickle… call Mom.” – Jennifer Garner