page_title: Jennifer Garner
section_title: Relationships and family
hierarchical_section_title: Jennifer Garner / Personal life / Relationships and family
caption_attribution_description: English: D23 EXPO - BUILDING WORLDS: INSIDE THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS - From August 19-21, 2011
context_page_description: Jennifer Anne Garner is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. After her supporting role in Pearl Harbor, Garner gained recognition for her performance as CIA officer Sydney Bristow in the ABC spy-action thriller television series Alias. For her work on the series, she won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
  While working on Alias, Garner made a cameo appearance in Catch Me If You Can, followed by a praised leading performance in the romantic comedy film 13 Going on 30. Garner went on to appear in supporting as well as lead roles, including the superhero films Daredevil and Elektra, the comedy-drama Juno, and the fantasy-comedy The Invention of Lying. In the 2010s, she appeared in the romantic comedy Valentine's Day, the fantasy drama The Odd Life of Timothy Green, the biographic drama Dallas Buyers Club, the family comedy Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, the drama Miracles from Heaven, the romantic comedy-drama Love, Simon, and the action thriller Peppermint.
  Garner works as an activist for early childhood education and is a board member of Save the Children.
context_section_description: Garner met co-star Scott Foley on the set of Felicity in 1998. They married in a ceremony at their home on October 19, 2000. The couple separated in March 2003. Garner filed for divorce in May 2003, citing irreconcilable differences, and divorce papers were signed in March 2004. She dated her Alias co-star Michael Vartan from August 2003 to mid-2004.
  Garner began dating Ben Affleck in mid-2004, having established a friendship on the sets of Pearl Harbor (2001) and Daredevil (2003). They were married on June 29, 2005, in a private Turks and Caicos ceremony. Victor Garber, who officiated the ceremony, and his husband, Rainer Andreesen, were the only guests. Garner and Affleck have three children together: two daughters, Violet (born in 2005) and Seraphina (born in 2009) and one son, Samuel (born in 2012). The couple announced their intention to divorce in June 2015, and jointly filed legal documents in April 2017, seeking joint physical and legal custody of their children. The divorce was finalized in October 2018.
  She dated businessman John C. Miller from mid-2018 to early 2020.
caption: Garner in 2011
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