Wednesday, March 13, 2019

The Beauty of Retrospect, March Actress Edition: Jennifer Garner

Okay, I've waited far too long to feature Jennifer Garner again - I haven't done that since December 2007! :-O


If all you saw of Jennifer Garner recently were her appearances on television, you'd think that all she ever does any more are commercials for credit card companies and beauty creams.  Au contraire - she's worked steadily in the movies in all the time since I last featured her.  Among her many roles since 2007 are as a doctor in 2013's Dallas Buyers Club, a drama about the underground AIDS-treatment-drug market in the 1980s, and the 2016 ensemble comedy Mother's Day, director Garry Marshall's final film.  (His sister Penny died two years after.)  Ms. Garner also played the mom in 2014's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (the box office receipts were anything but terrible, horrible, no good and very bad!) and as a vigilante seeking revenge against the murderers of her husband and daughter in 2018's Peppermint.


A month away from her 47th birthday as of this writing, Jennifer Garner is in that select group of women - Janet Evans, a frequent honoree on this blog, is in it too - who look adorably cute well into middle age. :-)

Sadly, her personal life as not been as good as her public life; she and Ben Affleck divorced in October 2018.

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