Matt Damon has lots of luck with girls. The Academy
Award-winning screenwriter and actor and his wife, Luciana, welcomed the birth
of their second daughter on Wednesday, the actor’s representative informed
PEOPLE magazine.
“Matt and Lucy Damon had a baby named Gia Zavala on
Wednesday, Aug, 20th. Everyone’s doing great,” Damon’s
representative, Jennifer Allen told PEOPLE. “She is a healthy baby girl,” she
added, according to the same source.
However, no other details apart from the baby’s name were
released.
Matt Damon proved once again he is a girl-lure, as the
couple already has a daughter named Isabella, aged 2, who was born in June 2006
and, in addition to this, Luciana has a daughter, Alexia, aged 10, from a
previous marriage.
The 37-year-old actor joked in an interview with USA Today,
saying, “I’m so outnumbered down here, it’s crazy,” PEOPLE reported.
Matt Damon met his wife, Luciana, aged 32, five years ago
while she was working in Florida
as a bartender and he was shooting for “Stuck on You.” The couple said “I do”
in December 2005 in New York at City Hall in Manhattan.
It seems that fatherliness changed the actor from many
points of view. Moreover, his good friend George Clooney told PEOPLE in 2007
that Matt Damon was a “phenomenal” father and was crazy about his kids.
The actor is currently working on the upcoming thriller
“Green Zone,” which is being filmed in Morocco, directed by Paul
Greengrass. The movie is based on the 2006 book “Imperial Life in the Emerald City” by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran
and the cast list includes names such as Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear and Brendan
Gleeson. The release date of the production has not been established yet.
Nevertheless, the collaboration between Damon and Greengrass
is not new at all, as they have worked together before on “The Bourne
Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum.”
In addition to this, PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive accepted to
continue starring in the next installment of the popular “Bourne” action movie.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote a screenplay about a young
math genius and, with a bit of help from Rob Reiner, William Goldman and Kevin
Smith, the two conceived “Good Will Hunting.” The 1997 production received nine
Academy Awards nominations and brought Damon and Affleck Oscars for Best
Original Screenplay. Furthermore, Damon was also nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Actor for the same movie, which, however, earned an Oscar for Best
Supporting Actor for co-star Robin Williams.
Soon after, Matt Damon won acclaim for his acting skills,
receiving a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of
charming murderer Tom Ripley in 1999’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and starred in
two major film franchises. He impersonated Jason Bourne in the well-known
action movies “The Bourne Identity,” “The Bourne Supremacy,” and “The Bourne
Ultimatum,” and played Linus Caldwell in “Ocean’s Eleven,” “Ocean’s Twelve” and
“Ocean’s Thirteen.”
The actor’s future projects include three productions due to
debut between 2008 and 2009. In 2008, he will star as Mr. Aaron in the drama
“Margaret,” and has already started filming “Green Zone” and Steven
Soderbergh’s thriller, “The Informant.” In June, producer Frank Marshall
announced that a fourth Bourne movie was expected to be released in 2010.
