Matt Damon has been ranked among Hollywood’s most bankable stars, receiving an Academy Award for his role in the 1998 film Good Will Hunting, and being nominated for his performances in The Martian, Invictus, and Manchester by the Sea. What most people don’t know a lot about is his private life. It turns out that the story of how he met his wife is pretty interesting. Luciana Barroso was a young bartender from Argentina. She was 20 years old, a single mother, and had been left by the father of her only child. She was struggling to make a living in America, but all that changed in 2003. One day, while working at a bar in Miami, a young man asked if he could hide behind the bar with her. He said he was an actor and explained that there were some journalists and people outside the bar who recognized him. He was annoyed and overwhelmed by the attention since he was still new to being famous. Luciana didn’t know who he was, but she told him, “You can hide here, but you have to at least help me!” So he helped her by making cocktails, serving customers, and washing dishes. Luciana and the stranger talked for a while, and at the end of her shift, she asked him his name. "Matt Damon," he said. They have now been married for 18 years and have four daughters. Matt also adopted her oldest child. Damon says he got lucky when he fell in love with a “civilian.”
