Matt Damon and wife Luciana Barroso’s relationship timeline: How they met and more

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Matt Damon’s marriage is a real-life romantic comedy.

The actor and his wife, Luciana Barroso, have been an item since 2003 and share four daughters.

The pair, who keep their relationship primarily out of the spotlight, don’t just work well at home — Damon has also credited his partner as an asset to his career.

Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso have been going strong since 2003. Getty Images The couple share four daughters. Getty Images They keep their romance primarily private. Getty Images

In 2023, the movie star said on the “Today” show that Barroso “pull[ed him] out of a career depression.”

When the duo co-produced “The Investigators” the following year, he clarified to “Entertainment Tonight” that she had been “reading every script and watching every cut of every movie [of his] for 21 years.”

Page Six goes behind the scenes of their private romance below.

Before they began

Damon dated fellow famous people before meeting Barroso. WireImage She welcomed daughter Alexia, pictured above on the far left, in a previous marriage. AFF-USA/Shutterstock

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Before Damon and Barroso met in Miami in 2003, the Oscar winner was romantically linked to Minnie Driver and Winona Ryder — but told the Washington Post that he would “never” date a celebrity again.

“It kind of magnifies exponentially the whole part of this thing that I don’t like, and that really gets in the way of doing my job and interferes with the life part of life,” he said at the time.

As for Barroso, she was previously married to Arbello Barroso, with whom she welcomed daughter Alexia.

Miami meet-cute

Damon met Barroso in 2003. Getty Images She was a bartender at the time. Getty Images

Damon was in Florida filming “Stuck on You” in 2003 when he met Luciana at a bar where she was bartending.

The Golden Globe winner hid behind the bar to avoid attention from fans — so Luciana “put him to work.”

She told Vogue Australia in 2018, “He started making drinks. … It turned into a really fun night. We definitely had a connection right away, it was so easy to talk to each other, we were very comfortable.”

He was filming “Stuck on You.” Getty Images The pair “had a connection right away.” FilmMagic

Damon subsequently “invited [her] to go out with his friends,” which Luciana skipped to take care of her then-4-year-old.

The producer detailed the experience on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2011, saying he noticed Luciana from “across the room.”

He noted, “Eight years and four kids later, that’s my life. I don’t know how else our paths would’ve crossed if that didn’t happen.”

Husband and wife

The duo wed in December 2005. WireImage They tied the knot in an NYC courthouse. Getty Images

Reports surfaced in September 2005 that Damon had proposed to Luciana, and the couple tied the knot three months later in a Manhattan civil ceremony attended by Michael Bloomberg.

Alexia was 7 at the time, and the “Goodwill Hunting” star spoke to Parade in 2020 about becoming her stepfather.

“I jumped into the deep end. … I was an extra dad,” Damon said, adding that his heart grew “five times its size” like in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”

Girl gang

They went on to welcome three baby girls. WireImage Damon has his daughters’ names tattooed on his arm. winterstone_/Instagram

Luciana gave birth to their first child together, daughter Isabella, in June 2006, followed by Gia and Stella in August 2008 and October 2010, respectively.

The siblings have made rare red carpet appearances with their parents over the years, with the whole family celebrating the “Investigators” premiere in July 2024.

Damon has all of the girls’ names, as well as Luciana’s, in tattooed tributes on one of his arms.