Jennifer Garner

Born:
Jennifer Anne Garner,
April 17, 1972, Houston, Texas

Raised in Charleston, West Virginia

Father: Bill Garner, a retired chemical engineer

Mother: Pat Garner, a retired college English teacher

Two sisters: Melissa and Suzannah

Husband: Ben Affleck.

Daughter: Violet, born Dec, 2005

Ex-husband: Scott Foley, actor

Dated Alias co-star Michael Vartan

Education:
Dennison University, graduated 1994, drama major

Jennifer Garner was born in Houston, Texas, and grew up in Charleston, West Virginia, where she studied ballet, learned to play the saxophone, and joined the swim team.

After graduating from Ohio's Dennison University with a major in drama, she headed to New York, where she got her first television role as Melissa Gilbert's daughter on the miniseries "Zoya." After a few feature films and some TV roles, she moved to LA, where she landed a role on the WB series, "Felicity," as Hanna Bibb, and met her first husband.

She currently plays double agent Sidney Bristow on the TV series, Alias, and lives in LA, where it is filmed, with her husband, Ben Affleck.