Jennifer Garner Now Mother of Two Girls

Tuesday, actress Jennifer Garner gave birth to her second daughter in Los Angeles, as People magazine has reported.

Quoting a spokesperson, People also stated that the baby girl, whose name remains yet undisclosed, was healthy, but no other pieces of information were given out.

Jennifer Garner and husband Ben Affleck also have a 3-year-old daughter named Violet.

The two actors, both 36 years old, started dating in 2004, one year after having appeared alongside each other in the movie „Daredevil” and they got married in June 2005.

Later that year in December, Garner gave birth to the couple’s first child, while this August, the arrival of a second baby was confirmed by the actress.

Jennifer Garner is best known for her portrayal of CIA agent Sydney Bristow in the “Alias” TV show, whereas her big-screen works include “Dude, Where’s My Car?,” “13 Going 30,” “Catch Me If You Can,” “Elektra,” “The Kingdom” and “Juno.” In the latter, released in 2007, she played Vanessa Loring, a well-to-do woman who wants to become an adoptive mother.

On October 19, 2000, Garner married actor Scott Foley, whom she had met on the set of the “Felicity” TV show back in 1998, but the couple got divorced only 4 years later, in March 2004.

Academy-Award winning Ben Affleck- for his screenplay in “Good Will Hunting”-rose to fame in the mid 1990s and has since become a household Hollywood name, having starred in movies such as „Armageddon,” „Pearl Harbor,” „Changing Lanes” and „The Sum of All Fears.”

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Ben Affleck's Turn to Speak Out on Jimmy Kimmel Video

They're the hottest new couple in Hollywood, and now Ben Affleck is speaking out about how he hooked up with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for their parody video response to Matt Damon and Sarah Silverman – as well as the secret bathtub scene that got cut.

Affleck tells EW.com: "I remember seeing Matt's and thinking to myself, 'Oh, it would be funny to do one with me and Jimmy.' They called and immediately I was like, 'Yes, it should be this idea ...,' and they had the same idea more or less already. I have a lot of respect for the group over there – they're really good comedians – so I just committed to it."

The actor says the singing was more difficult than wearing a pair of short shorts, but he acknowledges, "You couldn't really do it half-speed. You had to be painting toes and blow-drying hair. At one point we were going to take a bath together, but the bubbles couldn't get high enough, so that ended up getting scrapped."

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Affleck Steps Behind the Camera for Gone Baby Gone

There are legions of actors who have stepped behind the camera, but few who have done so successfully. The latest, and with very favorable results, is Ben Affleck, directing his own brother, Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), in a taut and tense detective yarn.

Set in the Afflecks’ hometown of Boston, Gone Baby Gone is based on a novel by Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River, also made into a movie directed by an actor-turned-director, and shares some similar themes. In this outing, Lehane’s recurring private detective Patrick Kenzie (Affleck) and girlfriend/sidekick Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan) reluctantly accept a job to investigate the disappearance of 6-year-old Amanda McCready, which immerses them into the sleazy world of Amanda’s heroin-addicted mother (Amy Ryan) and raises the possibility that Amanda’s abduction may not have been random.

Patrick and Angie meet creepy neighbors, drug dealers and pedophiles as their investigation is dogged by police detectives (Ed Harris and John Ashton) who either know more than Patrick and Angie, or less, all overseen by a police captain (Morgan Freeman) still haunted by the kidnapping and murder of his own daughter years before. The only thing Patrick and Angie can be sure of is that nothing is exactly what it seems.

There’s a lot of Catholic imagery and enough guilt to go around the table several times, but Affleck the director coaxes a riveting performance from his brother, indeed from all his actors. Audiences may recall that Ben co-starred with Freeman in The Sum of All Fears, and here Freeman gets a performance that makes up for the indignity he had to endure for Evan Almighty. Harris (A History of Violence) can virtually do no wrong, Ryan (Capote) is handed a breakout role as the addicted mom, and Monaghan’s character gets my award as Heroine of the Year, more than making up for the embarrassment of The Heartbreak Kid.

But what I really like is the moral ambiguity that Patrick and Angie are faced with as they try to determine if Amanda’s unknown fate is the result of a pedophilic abduction or something even more sinister. Affleck slaps them hard with an ethical decision that stuns the characters and the audience along with them. I applaud a movie, and a director, that can leave me wondering hours after the lights come up what I would have done in the same situation. I still don’t know. Maybe I don’t want to.

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