Jennifer Garner

Actor

Jennifer Garner is the lean, athletic star of the action-adventure television series Alias, in which she plays superspy Sydney Bristow. Garner began her acting career in New York in the mid-1990s, then moved to Los Angeles, where she 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. Since then she has appeared in feature films, with a small role in Catch Me If You Can (2002, starring Leonardo DiCaprio), as Elektra in Daredevil (2003, starring Ben Affleck) and the lead role in the comedy 13 Going on 30 (2004, with Mark Ruffalo).

Extra credit: ABC announced in the fall of 2005 that it was cancelling Alias and that the final episode would appear in the spring of 2006... 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. However, in 2004 Garner began dating Ben Affleck, her co-star in Daredevil, and on 29 June 2005 the two were married. Their first child, a daughter named Violet, was born on 1 December 2005.