25 interesting facts about Jennifer Garner
- Jennifer Garner and husband Ben Affleck have welcomed their second daughter, Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck, born January 6, 2009 in Los Angeles. Garner and Affleck, are also parents to daughter Violet.
- Jennifer Garner is right-handed.
- In 2007, both Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck appeared in a video called "Project Phin: Clean My Ride, Flex My Fuel", designed to lobby Congress on the the provision of automotive biofuels and increases in fuel efficiency for cars and light trucks.
- In addition to her daily workouts, Jennifer Garner is a strict believer in a nutrition plan that recommends eating every three hours. The meals, which Jennifer usually makes herself, include small servings of proteins and high-quality carbs.
- As a child, Jennifer Garner wanted to be an author.
- Jennifer Garner earned a theater degree from Ohio's Denison University.
- Jennifer Garner is known for being pretty shy at parties if she doesn't know many people there.
- One of Garner's call signs on "Alias" (2001) is "Mountaineer". She was raised in West Virginia, and the Mountaineer is the mascot of West Virginia University.
- Jennifer Garner signed to play Jude in Happy Endings, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with Alias and Elektra.
- Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck relocated from Los Angeles to Boston, Mass. to raise their daughter Violet.
- Garner worked 80 hour weeks during Alias' fourth season.
- While filming in the desert for 'The Kingdom', Jennifer Garner passed out from the heat and had to be rushed to the hospital.
- Jennifer refers to her current husband, Ben, as her real life superhero.
- Jennifer Garner had to go through five rounds of auditions before she was given the Felicity role.
- Jennifer Garner made her directorial debut in 2005 with the Alias episode "In Dreams."
- Jennifer's salary on 'Alias' started out at $45,000 an episode, before rising to $150,000 per episode in the show's third season.
- Jennifer Garner played the saxaphone in her high school band.
- Jennifer Garner went to college at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, which is about 20 miles away from Columbus.
- For her fifth season of Alias, Jennifer Garner was promoted to writer/producer.
- In the summer of 2003 Jennifer recorded a recruitment video for the Central Intelligence Agency.
- Jennifer Garner was initially going to go to Yale to study drama, but got an acting job in New York City instead.
- Jennifer Garner graduated from George Washington High School in Charleston, West Virginia.
- Jennifer Garner is 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 metres) tall.
- Jennifer says that she is often mistaken for former Power Ranger and Felicity co-star Amy Jo Johnson.
- Jennifer Garner spent the last trimester of her pregnancy filming Alias.
