Jennifer Anne Affleck (née Garner; born April 17, 1972), known professionally as Jennifer Garner, is an American actress. She is best known for her role as CIA agent Sydney Bristow on the ABC thriller drama series Alias. She is also known for her roles in the films Juno, Dude, Where's My Car?, 13 Going on 30, Catch Me if You Can, Daredevil, Elektra, Catch and Release, and The Kingdom. 
Personal life:Garner enjoys cooking, gardening, hiking and kickboxing (a hobby picked up during training for her Alias character). She is close friends with Reese Witherspoon and also close to actress Jean Louisa Kelly, who interviewed Garner for the June 2005 issue of Self magazine.
In December 2007, Garner was named The Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail's 2007 West Virginian of the Year "for her dedication, work ethic and unique role as role model and ambassador for West Virginia."
She has a yellow Labrador Retriever named "Martha Stewart" (after the television personality of the same name), which appeared with her on the television show Martha on January 24, 2007.
Early life and career:While growing up, Garner and her sisters had to abide by a number of rules laid down by their parents that set the three girls apart from their peers. For example, they were not allowed to wear make-up or go to the movies, they couldn't wear the latest fashions in clothes, they had to attend church every Sunday, and had to wait until at least the age of sixteen before they would be allowed to have their ears pierced. Speaking in interviews about these rules, Garner later said "I sometimes joke that we were just a step away from being Amish." In early interviews, Garner appeared to imply that she and her sisters had followed these rules closely, with comments such as "I'm the middle of three girls, and none of us pierced our ears, none of us wore makeup or nail polish.
We had straight hair, one length. It was just kind of the Garner Girl aesthetic. We didn't really question it; it was just the way we looked." More recently, she has admitted that, while they did follow the rules to some extent, they also broke them too, such as the time when Susannah had her ears pierced without parental permission at the age of fourteen. Garner herself didn't have her ears pierced until she appeared in the made-for-television disaster movie, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, and agreed to have her ears pierced temporarily especially for that role, letting them heal once filming was completed. 