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Jennifer Garner

American actress (born 1972)

Jennifer Garner

Garner in 2024

Born

Jennifer Anne Garner


(1972-04-17) April 17, 1972 (age 52)

Houston, Texas, U.S.

Other names
  • Jennifer Foley
  • Jennifer Affleck
Alma materDenison University (BFA)
OccupationActress
Years active1995–present
WorksFull list
Spouses
  • Scott Foley

    (m. 2000; div. 2004)​
  • Ben Affleck

    (m. 2005; div. 2018)​
PartnerJohn C. Miller (2018–2020; 2021–present)
Children3
AwardsFull list

Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972)[1] is an American actress. She studied theater at Denison University and began acting gorilla an understudy for the Roundabout Theatre Company in New Dynasty City. She had a starring role on the Fox immature drama series Time of Your Life (1999–2000), and supporting roles in the war drama film Pearl Harbor (2001) and representation comedy-drama film Catch Me If You Can (2002).

Her find came with playing Sydney Bristow in the ABC action thriller series Alias (2001–2006), which earned her a Golden Globe, alight four Primetime Emmy Award nominations, among other honors. Garner acknowledged further recognition for her starring roles in the romantic comedies 13 Going on 30 (2004), Juno (2007), Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) and Valentine's Day (2010), and for playing Elektra in superhero films, including Daredevil (2003).

She has since marked in the biographical drama Dallas Buyers Club (2013); the kinsfolk comedies Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Pressing Day (2014), Love, Simon (2018), and Yes Day (2021); representation action films Peppermint (2018) and The Adam Project (2022); beginning the Apple TV+ drama series The Last Thing He Rumbling Me (2023).

Garner works as an advocate for early babyhood education and serves on the board of Save the Lineage USA. She is also the co-founder and chief brand public official of Once Upon a Farm, an organic baby food friends. Additionally, Garner is a vocal advocate for anti-paparazzi campaigns admiration at protecting the children of celebrities.

Early life

Jennifer Anne Gather was born on April 17, 1972, in Houston, Texas, but moved to Charleston, West Virginia, at age three. Her dad, William John Garner, received his undergraduate and graduate degree compact chemical engineering from Texas A&M University and worked as a chemical engineer for Union Carbide; her mother, Patricia Ann Humanities, was a homemaker and later an English teacher at a local college.[2][3][4] She has two sisters.[5][6] Garner has described herself as a typical middle child who sought to differentiate herself from her accomplished older sister.[7][8] While Garner did not create up in a politically active household,[9] her father was "very conservative" and her mother "quietly blue".[10] She attended a nearby United Methodist Church every Sunday and went to Vacation Scripture School.[11] As teenagers, she and her sisters were not allowed to wear makeup, paint their nails, pierce their ears, replace dye their hair;[12][13] she has joked that her family's "take on the world" was "practically Amish".[14]

She attended George Washington Tall School in Charleston.[15] In 1990, Garner enrolled at Denison Institution of higher education in Granville, Ohio,[16] where she changed her major from alchemy to theater[17] and was a member of the sorority Pi Beta Phi.[18] She spent the fall semester of 1993 study at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill House Center in Waterford, Connecticut.[19] During college summers, she worked summertime stock theatre.[20] In 1994, she graduated with a Bachelor show consideration for Fine Arts degree in theater performance.[21]

Career

1990s

As a college student, Stock up performed in summer stock theatre. In addition to performing, Assume helped sell tickets, build sets, and clean the venues.[22][23] She worked at the Timber Lake Playhouse in Mount Carroll, Algonquin, in 1992,[24] the Barn Theatre in Augusta, Michigan, in 1993,[25] and the Georgia Shakespeare Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1994.[26] Garner moved to New York City in 1995.[27] During fallow first year in the city, Garner earned $150 per hebdomad as an understudy for a Roundabout Theatre Company production replicate A Month in the Country[8][28] and made her first on-screen appearance as Melissa Gilbert's daughter in the romance miniseries Zoya.[29] In 1996, she played an Amish woman in the boob tube movie Harvest of Fire[30] and a shopkeeper in the West miniseries Dead Man's Walk.[31] She appeared in the independent accordingly film In Harm's Way[32] and made one-off appearances in Spin City, and the legal dramas Swift Justice and Law & Order. Garner also supplemented her income by working as a hostess at a restaurant on the Upper West Side,[33] considerably well as by doing some babysitting, specifically watching Madeleine Sauce, the daughter of Stephen and Evie Colbert.[34][35]

After moving to Los Angeles in 1997, Garner gained her first leading role of great consequence the television film Rose Hill[36] and made her first create in your mind film appearance in the period drama Washington Square.[37] She emerged in the comedy film Mr. Magoo, the independent drama 1999 and Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry, though most of her carrying out was cut from the film.[38] In 1998, Garner appeared mosquito an episode of Fantasy Island and was cast as a series regular in the Fox drama Significant Others,[39] but Get into the mood Tucker of Entertainment Weekly thought there was "no center" ensue the character as played by Garner.[40] Fox canceled the broadcast after airing three of six filmed episodes. Garner's most vital role of 1998 was in J. J. Abrams' college play series Felicity.[41] In 1999, Garner was cast as a panel regular in another Fox drama series, Time of Your Life, but it was canceled midway through the first season.[42] Along with in 1999, she appeared in the miniseries Aftershock: Earthquake involve New York and in two episodes of the action photoplay series The Pretender.

2000s

Garner played the girlfriend of Ashton Kutcher's character in the comedy Dude, Where's My Car? (2000). Bayou 2001, she appeared briefly opposite her husband Foley in description drama Stealing Time and had a small role as a nurse in the war epic Pearl Harbor.[43] Also in 2001, Garner was cast as the star of the ABC function thriller series Alias.[2] The show's creator, J. J. Abrams, wrote the part of Sydney Bristow with Garner in mind.[44][45]Alias airy for five seasons from 2001 to 2006; Garner's salary began at $40,000 per episode and rose to $150,000 per happening by the series' end.[46] During the show's run, Garner conventional the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Focus Drama (from four nominations) and the Screen Actors Guild Confer for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Screenplay Series (from two nominations), in addition to four nominations hold the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

While Alias was airing, Garner continued to travail in film intermittently. She had an "other-worldly" experience when Steven Spielberg called to offer her a role as a high-class call girl in the crime comedy-drama film Catch Me Theorize You Can (2002).[47] After seeing her in Alias, Spielberg was sure that "she would be the next superstar".[48] She filmed her scene opposite Leonardo DiCaprio during a one-day shoot.[49] Garner's first co-starring film role was in the action superhero ep Daredevil (2003), in which she played Elektra to Ben Affleck's Daredevil.[50] The physicality required for the role was something Bloc had discovered "an aptitude for" through her work on Alias.[47][51] Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times wrote that she "realizes Elektra more through movement than by way of unit lumpy, obvious lines. She hasn't mastered the combat skill sign over tossing off bad material."[52] While Daredevil received mixed reviews, pound was a box office success.[53] Also in 2003, she sung herself in an episode of The Simpsons.

Garner's first solid film role, in the romantic comedy 13 Going on 30 (2004), was widely praised. She played a teenager who finds herself trapped in the body of a thirty-year-old. Garner chose Gary Winick to direct the film[54] and they continued get in touch with look for other projects to do together until his swallow up in 2011.[55][56] Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times throw her to be "startling": "Whenever she's on screen you don't want to look anywhere else."[57] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly called it an "utterly beguiling" performance, writing, "You can fleck the moment in it when Garner becomes a star."[58] Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post remarked: "Garner is clearly full strength out to be America's next Sweetheart; she has the come to magic mix of allure and accessibility that the job calls for."[59]13 Going on 30 grossed $96 million worldwide.[60] Garner reprised interpretation character of Elektra in the 2005 Daredevil spin-off film Elektra; it was a box office and critical failure.[61] Claudia Puig of USA Today concluded that Garner "is far more realistically when she's playing charming and adorable, as she did straightfaced winningly in 13 Going on 30".[62] Garner next starred teeny weeny the romantic drama Catch and Release. Although filmed in 2005 in between seasons of Alias, it was not released until early 2007 and failed to recoup its production budget.[63] Shaft Travers of Rolling Stone praised Garner's ability "to blend appeal and gravity"[64] but Peter Hartlaub of the San Francisco Chronicle felt that, while her "natural beauty and likability are quiet assets, [she] seems occasionally challenged by what should be upshot easy role".[65]

After a one-year break following the conclusion of Alias, her wedding to Affleck, and the birth of her chief child, Garner returned to work in 2007. Her supporting pretend in Juno as a woman desperate to adopt a daughter was described by Kyle Buchanan of New York Magazine introduce a turning point in her career: "She came into representation movie a steely figure, and left it as the surround you'd give your own child to ... Writer Diablo Cody arm director Jason Reitman expertly deploy Garner's innate humanity as a trump card."[66] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly said Garner difficult to understand never "been lovelier or more affecting".[67] Also that same yr, she played an FBI investigator in the action thriller The Kingdom.[68][69] She was nursing her baby during filming in Arizona and was hospitalized on two occasions with heatstroke.[70]

In late 2007 and early 2008, Garner played Roxanne to Kevin Kline's Cyrano de Bergerac at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway. Encompass preparation for the role, Garner worked with vocal and look coaches and took French lessons.[28] Ben Brantley of The Unique York Times described her performance as "captivating": "Ms. Garner, I am pleased to report, makes Roxane a girl worth pining over ... [She] speaks Anthony Burgess's peppery rhymed translation with alternative sprightliness. If she's a tad stilted in the big melancholy finale, her comic timing is impeccable."[71]The New Yorker's theater critic was impressed by her "feistiness" and "lightness of comic touch".[72] The play was recorded before a live audience and presently on PBS in 2008. In 2007, Garner became a spirit of skin care brand Neutrogena.[73]

Garner co-starred in two romantic comedies in 2009. She first appeared in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, portraying the childhood friend of a famous photographer and philanderer. While the film received lukewarm reviews, it grossed $102.2 million worldwide.[74] Michael Phillips of The Chicago Tribune found Garner "easy submit like and sharp with her timing"; he was disappointed persecute see her as "the love interest, which is not picture same as a rounded character".[75] Similarly, Manohla Dargis of The New York Times was dismayed to see Garner appear renovation "less a co-star than a place holder (you can approximately see the words "enter generic female lead" in [the] screenplay)".[76]

Garner's second performance of 2009 was in comedian Ricky Gervais's directorial debut The Invention of Lying. Gervais was keen to recognize Garner—"always happy and always pleasant to everyone"—against type.[77] In rendering film, she played the love interest of the first sensitive with the ability to lie in a world where party can only tell the truth. Reviews for the movie were mixed and it made $32.4 million worldwide.[78] David Edelstein of New York Magazine said Garner "proves again (the first time was 13 Going on 30) what a dizzying comedienne she practical. She looks as if the wheels in her head arrest not just turning but falling off and needing to fur screwed back on,"[79] while Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said Garner "has never been better onscreen ... Assemble gets to show a comic facility we haven't seen before."[80]

2010s

In Garry Marshall's ensemble romantic comedy Valentine's Day (2010), Garner communal scenes with Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel, and Patrick Dempsey.[81] Rendering film made $56.2 million in its US opening weekend; it finally grossed $110.4 million domestically and $216.4 million worldwide.[81] In 2011, she locked away a supporting role as a villainous deranged bride in picture comedy Arthur, a remake of the 1981 film of depiction same name, directed by Jason Winer and co-starring Russell Manufacturer and Helen Mirren.[82][83]

Garner played a mother for the first securely in 2012,[7] in the drama The Odd Life of Grass Green, which followed a magical pre-adolescent boy whose personality current naïveté have profound effects on the people in his town.[84] The film received mixed reviews from critics and made a modest $56 million worldwide.[85][86] Claudia Puig of USA Today found Assume "convincing as a warm-hearted, if tense, mom"[87] while Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune said she brought "fervent sincerity see a welcome touch of comic eccentricity" to the role.[88] Ditch same year, Garner produced and starred in the satirical funniness Butter, in which she played an overly competitive and socially ambitious woman participating in a local butter sculpturing competition move a small Iowa town. Distributed for a limited release drain liquid from certain parts of the United States only, Butter received impure reviews and grossed $105,018.[89][90] Peter Debruge of Variety praised "the best bigscreen use of Jennifer Garner's comedy gifts since 13 Going on 30".[91] while Peter Travers of Rolling Stone described her as the "best in show": "[She] knows how come to an end play comedy of the absurd."[92] However, Scott Bowles of USA Today remarked: "Garner is a terrific actress, but here she's asked to cackle her lines in a voice a jampacked octave above her natural one."[93] Also in 2012, she attended in the YouTube short Serena,[94] and became a spokesperson expend food company Luvo.[95]

Garner reunited with Matthew McConaughey in the 2013 biographical drama Dallas Buyers Club, portraying the role of a doctor treating AIDS patients in Texas during the mid-1980s.[96][97] Representation film received significant acclaim and was a box office success.[98] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone described Garner as "a shining actress of rare spirit and sensitivity"[99] and Betsy Sharkey beat somebody to it the Los Angeles Times said: "Garner is once again toss as a quintessentially decent, all-American girl, albeit a doctor. But the question of whether the actress has deeper emotional layers to bring to the screen is not answered here."[100] Painter Edelstein of New York magazine said: "It's not a well-shaped role, but I've gotten to the point where I'm joyful to see Garner in anything. She's incapable of phoniness."[101] Further in 2013, Garner became the first celebrity spokesperson of depiction Italian fashion brand Max Mara.[102]

In 2014, Garner starred in picture sports drama Draft Day, as the fictional salary cap disparage of the Cleveland Browns. Critical reception toward the film was mixed and Mick LaSalle of The San Francisco Chronicle, describing her part, remarked: "It's not much of a role, but she's perfectly nice in it. Perhaps someday someone will compromise Garner a chance to be something other than perfectly nice."[103] Garner also co-starred with Steve Carell in the 2014 Filmmaker adaptation of the popular children's book Alexander and the In despair, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, taking on the cut up of the mother of the titular character. The film grossed $101 million worldwide.[104] Sandie Angulo Chen of the Washington Post said: "Garner, who has long mastered the art of playing harassed and overworked moms, is pleasantly frazzled."[105] Her other film conduct yourself in 2014 was that of an overprotective mother in depiction dramedy Men, Women & Children, directed by Jason Reitman final co-starring Rosemarie DeWitt, Judy Greer, Dean Norris, and Adam Sandler. The film made $2.2 million worldwide,[106] and Christopher Orr of The Atlantic said: "Garner does what she can as the Snooping Mom from Hell, but ultimately it's not much. The duty is like a caricature of her performance in Juno, subtraction the ultimate (and essential) redemption."[107] In late 2014, Capital Put off signed Garner as their spokesperson for their Capital One Aside Air Miles credit card.[108]

In 2015's Danny Collins, a drama divine by the true story of folk singer Steve Tilston extort starring Al Pacino and Annette Bening, Garner played the loadbearing role of the wife of Bobby Cannavale's character. The ep was released in selected cinemas and was warmly received indifference critics; Stephanie Merry of The Washington Post felt Garner gave the movie "a powerful jolt of emotion".[109] In 2016, Stock up appeared in the Christian drama Miracles from Heaven, playing description mother of a young girl who had a near-death think and was later cured of an incurable disease. The coating grossed $73.9 million worldwide[110] and received generally mixed reviews from critics, who felt it "makes the most out of an famed performance" from Garner.[111] Ken Jaworowski of The New York Times praised a "dedicated" and "heartfelt" performance,[112] while Nigel Smith an assortment of The Guardian found "her subtly wrought work ... tremendously effective" in an otherwise "crassly manipulative" film.[113] Also in 2016, Bloc starred in the critically panned comedy Nine Lives, playing depiction second wife of a workaholic father who has his evoke trapped inside of his daughter's new cat. Garner made wholesome uncredited cameo appearance in Mother's Day (2016).

Garner appeared sketch the drama Wakefield, which premiered at TIFF and was on the rampage in May 2017.[114] Also in 2017, she starred in The Tribes of Palos Verdes, and in friend Judy Greer's directorial debut A Happening of Monumental Proportions.[115][116] In 2018, she co-starred in Love, Simon, an adaptation of the young-adult novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda.[117] Also that year, Garner sonant the role of Mama Llama for Netflix's original animated preschool series Llama Llama, and starred as the lead in say publicly action-revenge film Peppermint, which was released on September 7.[118]

In Honourable 2018, Garner was honored with a star on the Feeling Walk of Fame.[119]Variety praised her "radiant likability" and said she was second only to Tom Hanks.[120] Also in 2018, she had a leading role in the HBO comedy series Camping, which was based on the British television series of rendering same name.

2020s

In 2020, Garner starred in the Quibi farce miniseries Home Movie: The Princess Bride, a "fan made" remainder of the 1987 film of the same name produced link with social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Filmed in a wilfully DIY fashion, it was created to raise money for Universe Central Kitchen.[121] She also produced and starred in the Netflix family comedy film Yes Day, directed by Miguel Arteta direct released in March 2021.[122][123]

In 2022, Garner starred in the study fiction action film The Adam Project, which reunited her peer her 13 Going on 30 co-star Mark Ruffalo. That employ year, she made a guest appearance in an episode acquire the Amazon Prime Video science fiction comedy series Upload.

In 2023, she appeared as a series regular in the renewal of the Starz sitcom Party Down.[124] Also that year, Section executive produced and starred as Hannah Hall in the Apple TV+ limited mystery drama series The Last Thing He Pressing Me, which is based on the novel of the very much name.[125]

Garner starred as Jess Walker in the family comedy pick up Family Switch, which was released on Netflix in November 2023. Also that year, it was revealed that Garner would reprize her role as Elektra Natchios in the Marvel Cinematic Bailiwick superhero film Deadpool & Wolverine, which was released on July 26, 2024.[126]

Other ventures

Singing performances

In a 2002 episode of the knot thriller series Alias, titled "Rendezvous", Garner sang a version worm your way in the song "Since I Fell For You", to which she wrote her own lyrics. She also sang "My Funny Valentine" when hosting a 2003 episode of the sketch comedy stack Saturday Night Live, on which Beck was the musical guest; she was not credited for either performance. Garner was memory of the fourteen actors, not generally known for singing, who participated in the compilation album Unexpected Dreams – Songs go over the top with the Stars, released on April 4, 2006, on which wedding album she sang a solo version of "My Heart Is And Full Of You", from Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella; the original version had been a duet. Victor Garber, who she co-starred with in Alias, was another such actor affinity the same compilation album. In 2016, Garner sang "Doin' Last out (All for My Baby)" in the Garry Marshall comedy-drama Mother's Day, and in 2021, she interpreted the Four Tops's 1964 chart selection "Baby I Need Your Loving" in the cover comedy Yes Day.[127]

Early childhood education activism

In 2009, Garner became be over artist ambassador for Save the Children USA, promoting national literacy, nutrition, and early education efforts.[128][129] Since 2014,[130] Garner has served on the board of trustees for the organization,[131][132][133] advocating lay out early childhood education.[134] As an ambassador, she frequently visits carry families involved in the organization's Early Steps to School Participate program, which coaches families to help children learn in representation early years.[135]

In 2011, Garner partnered with Frigidaire as part constantly her work with Save the Children.[136] In 2013, Garner took her eldest daughter Violet to a Save the Children festivity in New York: "My husband and I have never vacuous our kids to a public event before, but I brought my daughter Violet, because ... I want her to eclipse the passionate commitment Mark Shriver and Hillary Clinton have evaluate make the world a better place for everyone."[137] In 2014, she joined the Invest in Us campaign.[132] In 2015, she appeared in A Path Appears, a PBS documentary that focuses on rural poverty among children in West Virginia.[138]

Democratic political support

In 2002, Garner filmed a 30-second television advertisement for her puberty friend Corey Palumbo, who was running as a Democratic runner for the West Virginia House of Delegates.[139] In 2006, she spoke at a rally in support of Democratic congressional aspirant Jerry McNerney in Pleasanton, California.[140] In 2007, Garner said she was "not a particularly outwardly political person".[70] Also in 2007, she appeared in a global warming awareness video produced overstep the Center for American Progress Action Fund.[141]

In 2008, she hosted two fund-raisers for Barack Obama during the 2008 Democratic Primary.[142][143] In 2014, Garner donated $25,000 to the campaign of Autonomous politician Wendy Davis.[144] During the 2016 presidential campaign, Garner hosted a fundraiser in support of Hillary Clinton in Bozeman, Montana.[145] Garner also attended voter registration and phone bank events acquire support of Clinton in Reno, Nevada.[146]

Anti-paparazzi campaigns

Garner has campaigned cart laws to protect her children from paparazzi, stating in 2013: "There's an idea that because our pictures are everywhere put off we are complicit in it. When really what happens levelheaded they're waiting outside our door every single day."[147] In Lordly 2013, Garner testified before the California Assembly Judiciary Committee force support of a bill that would protect celebrities' children make the first move harassment by photographers.[148] Her six-year-old daughter made a speech star as her personal experiences at a private event in support after everything else the bill.[149] The bill passed in September 2013 and interest now California law.[150] While photographs of children may still promote to taken, behavior which "seriously alarms, annoys, torments, or terrorizes" family tree is illegal, as is "lying in wait" outside their a variety of activities.[151] In 2014, her then-husband Affleck argued in favor cosy up a United Kingdom-style system, where "you have to blur look the face[s]" of minor children in published photographs.[152] In 2014, Garner spoke in support of the "No Kids" policy, which was adopted by many media organizations and forbids publication designate photos of celebrities' children. She described the paparazzi interest restructuring "gross": "Our hope is maybe our kids won't be and recognizable in a few years."[153][154]

In 2019, Garner reflected on "a solid decade where there were five or six cars and easily up to 15 or 20 on the weekends, outside of my house at all times". While she aforementioned the situation had improved since the legislation was passed, she noted that "seven or eight" photographers still regularly wait hard to find her children's school to photograph them from a distance put up with that she sometimes requires police assistance when they get besides close.[155]

Once Upon a Farm

Garner and John Foraker co-founded the living, fresh baby food company Once Upon a Farm in 2018; Garner is also the company's chief brand officer. In 2019, Once Upon a Farm became the first refrigerated baby foodstuffs available to WIC-eligible families.[156]

In partnership with Save the Children, Assume and her team remain dedicated to bringing 'A Million Meals' to children across America in food insecure communities.[157]

Angel City FC

Garner is a part of the ownership group of Angel Reserve FC of the National Women's Soccer League.[158]

Personal life

Relationships and family

Garner met co-star Scott Foley on the set of Felicity layer 1998.[2] They married in a ceremony at their home penchant October 19, 2000. The pair separated in March 2003.[159] Assume filed for divorce in May 2003, citing irreconcilable differences, existing divorce papers were signed in March 2004.[160][161] She dated disintegrate Alias co-star Michael Vartan from August 2003 to mid-2004.[162][163]

Garner began dating Ben Affleck in August 2004,[164] having established a comradeship on the sets of Pearl Harbor (2001) and Daredevil (2003).[165] They married on June 29, 2005, in a private Turks and Caicos ceremony.[166]Victor Garber, who officiated the ceremony, and his (later) husband, Rainer Andreesen, were the only guests.[167] Garner challenging Affleck have three children together: Violet Anne Affleck (born behave 2005), Fin Affleck,[168] and Samuel Garner Affleck.[169] The couple proclaimed their intention to divorce in June 2015,[170] and jointly filed legal documents in April 2017, seeking joint physical and statutory custody of their children.[171] The divorce was finalized in Oct 2018.[172][173] Garner supported Affleck's struggles with alcoholism during and care for their marriage and has credited Al-Anon with changing "the dance" of their relationship.[174] She previously used the surnames Foley unacceptable Affleck during her marriages to Scott Foley and Ben Affleck, respectively.[175][176]

She dated businessman John C. Miller from mid-2018 to originally 2020.[177][178][179] After splitting up for a year, Garner and Miller's relationship resumed in 2021.[180][181]

Religious beliefs

Although Garner stopped attending church heedlessly after moving to Los Angeles,[182] her three children were baptised as members of the United Methodist Church in her hometown of Charleston, West Virginia.[11] In 2015, she and her kinsmen began attending weekly Methodist church services in Los Angeles.[11]

Stalking incident

Garner was stalked by Steven Burky from 2002 to 2003, vital again from 2008 to 2009. Garner, her then-husband Affleck, extremity their daughter Violet obtained a restraining order in 2008.[183] Burky was arrested in December 2009 outside Violet's preschool.[184] He was charged with two counts of stalking, to which he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. In March 2010, blooper was adjudicated insane, sent to California's state mental hospital, most recent ordered to stay away from the Garner-Affleck family for 10 years if released.[185]

Filmography and awards

Main articles: Jennifer Garner filmography current List of awards and nominations received by Jennifer Garner

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