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Matt Damon is an American screenwriter, producer, and actor, who is best known for his role as Jason Bourne in the Bourne series of films. He gained national attention after the success of Good Will Hunting, a film that he and his good friend, actor Ben Affleck, co-wrote. The film went on to win the Academy Award for best screenplay that year. Damon is also a philanthropist who founded the H20 Africa Foundation, and supports many others such as the ONE campaign and Feeding America. He is married with three daughters and a stepdaughter.

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25 Aug, 2014

Ice Bucket Challenge: Matt Damon

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Damon is nominated by Jimmy Kimmel and Ben Affleck and nominates George Clooney, Bono and Tom Brady. Instead of ice water, Damon uses toilet water, to promote Water.org, whose goal is to provide clean water to people around the world.

We envision the day when everybody has access to a clean drink of water, and here are about 800 million people in the world who don’t…The water in our toilets in the West is actually cleaner than the water that most people in the developing world have access to. So, as disgusting as this may seem, hopefully it will highlight that this is a big problem and hopefully we can do something about it.

Matt Damon Takes the ALSA Ice Bucket Challenge!