1. Outsmarting the smart guy who's just made a fool out of his buddy (Ben Afflleck again) in the bar scene from the movie Good Will Hunting (1997).

2. Making his mark as a new kind of action hero, one with brains, in the movie The Bourne Identity (2002). Matt has never looked so good.

3. Fighting for the women he loves, Penelope Cruz, in the movie All the Pretty Horses (2000).

1. He was offered the lead role in the western The Quick and the Dead (1995) but chose to decline. The producers of the movie then turned to Leonardo DiCaprio and he said yes.

2. Matt's uncle, George Brunstad, is a bit of a celebrity himself. In 2004, at the age of of 70, he became the oldest man to swim the English Channel.

3. He made a cameo appearance as a waiter in the film The Sum of All Fears (2002) starring his good friend Ben Affleck. However, the scene was cut from the final version of the movie.