Jennifer Garner was born on April 17, 1972 in Houston, Texas, U.S. When she was only 3-years-old, she began taking ballet lessons. While she continued these lessons throughout her youth, she admitted that even though she loved dancing she did not have any ambition when it came to becoming a classical ballerina.
 
In 1990 Jennifer Garner graduated from George Washington High School and went on to enroll in Denison University's chemistry program. However, she soon realized that she enjoyed acting a lot more than science, so she changed her major to drama. Upon graduating from college, she continued on to attend the National Theater Institute. Here she was trained by fight choreographer David Chandler.

It was not long before Jennifer Garner wanted stage experience and thus moved to New York City to take her chances in theater there. Her first experience there was as an understudy in Roundabout Theater's play, A Month In The Country. From there she was cast in her first television role, Zoya (a movie based on the Daniel Steel novel). She then appeared in several other movies and television shows, including:
1.Significant Others
2.Time Of Your Life
3.Felicity
4.Dude
5.Where's My Car? (In this movies she played the role of Ashton Kutchner's girlfriend.)
6.Pearl Harbor (Herein she played one of the nurses, co-starring with Kate Beckinsale and her future husband Ben Affleck.)

Today Jennifer Garner is a Golden Globe- and SAG Award-winning American actress, as well as having been nominated for an Emmy. She is best known for her role as CIA agent Sydney Bristow on the television show Alias, as well as for her roles in the films Juno, Pearl Harbor, Dude, Where's My Car?, 13 Going on 30, Catch Me If You Can, Daredevil, Elektra and Catch and Release.

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