Jennifer Garner is America’s Sweetheart : A biography
Posted on December 27, 2009
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Jennifer Anne Affleck Garner was born on  April 17, 1972, and is known professionally as Jennifer Garner, is an American actress. She is best known for her role as CIA agent Sydney Bristow on the ABC thriller drama series Alias.  She was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Patricia Ann, an English teacher from Oklahoma, and William John Garner, a chemical engineer who worked for Union Carbide in Texas. Her family is Methodist. At three years old, Garner began taking ballet lessons which she continued throughout her youth. Although she admitted that she loved dancing, she never had ambitions to become a classical ballerina. When she was four years old, her father’s job with Union Carbide relocated her family to Princeton, West Virginia, then to Charleston, West Virginia, where Garner resided until her college years. Garner enjoys cooking, gardening, hiking and kickboxing (a hobby picked up during training for her Alias character).
She has appeared in numerous other television production as well as such films as Elektra (2005), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Daredevil (2003), Pearl Harbor (2001) and Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000) and The Kingdom. Aside from filming “Alias” (2001), Jennifer enjoys cooking, gardening, hiking, and inspired by her character on the show, kickboxing.She is close friends with Reese Witherspoon and also close to actress Jean Louisa Kelly, who interviewed Garner for the June 2005 issue of Self magazine. In December 2007, Garner was named The Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail’s 2007 West Virginian of the Year “for her dedication, work ethic and unique role as role model and ambassador for West Virginia.” For her work, Garner has received four consecutive Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She has also received four Golden Globe nominations and won once, as well as received two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, and won once.
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