ACTOR · PRODUCER

Jennifer Garner

Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award winner. Four-time Emmy nominee. Actor and producer.

HER STORY

From West Virginia to the Screen

Jennifer Garner was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Charleston, West Virginia, the middle of three daughters. She began at Denison University studying chemistry, switched to theatre, and graduated with a degree in drama in 1994 before moving to New York to work on stage.

Her Story

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SELECTED WORK

Filmography Highlights

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2002

Catch Me If You Can

Cheryl Ann

Steven Spielberg's true-crime drama follows con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio), who forged millions of dollars in checks while posing as a pilot, doctor and lawyer, and the FBI agent (Tom Hanks) who pursues him. Garner appears as Cheryl Ann, one of the young women drawn into Frank's world of charm and deception.

2003

Daredevil

Elektra Natchios

Garner made her leading-lady film debut as Elektra Natchios opposite Ben Affleck in this Marvel adaptation, playing a formidable martial artist who becomes both love interest and adversary to blind vigilante lawyer Matt Murdock. The role launched Elektra as a franchise character in her own right.

2004

13 Going on 30

Jenna Rink

Garner's breakout comedic lead: a 13-year-old girl who wishes herself “30, flirty and thriving” and wakes up as a successful magazine editor in an adult life she doesn't recognize. The film became a defining romantic comedy of the 2000s and one of Garner's most beloved performances.

2005

Elektra

Elektra Natchios

A Daredevil spin-off built around Garner, resurrecting Elektra Natchios as a resurrected assassin-for-hire who is contracted to kill a single father and his daughter — only to end up protecting them instead. It marked one of the first female-led superhero films from a major studio.

2007

The Kingdom

Janet Mayes

A tense action-thriller in which an FBI team, including Garner as forensics expert Janet Mayes, is sent to Saudi Arabia to investigate a deadly terrorist bombing that killed American workers, navigating diplomatic tension and danger to find those responsible.

2007

Juno

Vanessa Loring

In Jason Reitman's Oscar-winning comedy-drama, Garner plays Vanessa Loring, a woman hoping to adopt the baby of unexpectedly pregnant teenager Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page). Her quietly aching performance as a woman who wants to be a mother became one of the film's emotional anchors.

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