Acting career 1990sĪs a college student, Garner performed in summer stock theatre. In 1994, she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theater performance. During college summers, she worked summer stock theatre. She spent the fall semester of 1993 studying at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. In 1990, Garner enrolled at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where she changed her major from chemistry to theater and was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. She attended George Washington High School in Charleston. As teenagers, she and her sisters were not allowed to wear makeup, paint their nails, pierce their ears, or dye their hair she has joked that her family's "take on the world" was "practically Amish". She attended a local United Methodist Church every Sunday and went to Vacation Bible School. While Garner did not grow up in a politically active household, her father was "very conservative" and her mother "quietly blue". Garner has described herself as a typical middle child who sought to differentiate herself from her accomplished older sister. Her father, William John Garner, worked as a chemical engineer for Union Carbide her mother, Patricia Ann English, was a homemaker and later an English teacher at a local college. Jennifer Anne Garner was born on April 17, 1972, in Houston, Texas, but moved to Charleston, West Virginia at age three. She is also an advocate for anti-paparazzi campaigns among children of celebrities. She is the co-founder and chief brand officer of the organic baby food company Once Upon a Farm. Garner works as an activist for early childhood education and is a board member of Save the Children USA. She also starred in the action films Peppermint (2018) and The Adam Project (2022), and in the AppleTV+ limited series The Last Thing He Told Me (2023). Garner has since starred in several independent films, including the biographical drama Dallas Buyers Club (2013), and family comedies such as Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014), Love, Simon (2018), and Yes Day (2021). Other commercial successes include the romantic comedies Juno (2007), Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), and Valentine's Day (2010). She also starred in the romantic comedy 13 Going on 30 (2004), and portrayed Elektra in the superhero films Daredevil (2003) and Elektra (2005). Garner gained recognition for starring as CIA officer Sydney Bristow in the ABC action thriller series Alias (2001–2006), winning a Golden Globe Award and a SAG Award, in addition to four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She had a starring role on the Fox teen drama series Time of Your Life (1999–2000), and supporting roles in the war drama film Pearl Harbor (2001) and the comedy-drama film Catch Me If You Can (2002). She made her screen debut in the television film adaptation of Danielle Steel's romance novel Zoya in 1995. Born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Charleston, West Virginia, Garner studied theater at Denison University and began acting as an understudy for the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City. Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is an American actress.
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