Today is actor Jennifer Garner’s birthday. The
mother of three and estranged wife of Ben Affleck, rose to fame as
super-spy Sydney Bestow on the J.J Abrams-created series, Alias.
However, in these parts, Garner will always be remembered as the first
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In 2001, after saving the world a lot, Lucy Lawless and
Sarah Michelle Gellar made the ultimate superhero sacrifice with their
characters "Xena: Warrior Princess" and "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer". But
that fall, not only was the Slayer resurrected on the then-UPN Network,
but girl power on television was reborn with Jennifer Garner on J.J. Abrams' "Alias".
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For five seasons, Garner was saving the world from bad guys
every week as Sydney Bristow: graduate student by day and sexy
super-spy/double agent by night. "Alias" aired on ABC, the same network
responsible for Lynda Carter as "Wonder Woman", Lindsay Wagner as "The
Bionic Woman", "Charlie's Angels", and Hayley Atwell as Marvel's "Agent Carter".
In 2003's "Daredevil", Garner brought that female empowerment on the big screen as Elektra, the love interest of blind attorney Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck)
- and the nemesis of Murdock's masked vigilante alter-ego that prowled
the rooftops at night in search of justice that can not be found within
the courts. Garner reprise her role for 2005's "Elektra", where her
character is a trained assassin/warrior who is caught in the middle of
the battle between the forces of good/light and evil/darkness -
including the one that is within her. When unable to kill a man and his
daughter, Elektra becomes a target herself when she decides to protect
them instead: rediscovering her heart and humanity in the process.
The film was a critical and commercial disappointment, but
"Daredevil" and "Elektra" led to Ben and Jennifer becoming Bennifer 2.0.
They married in 2005 and became the parents of daughters Violet and
Seraphina, and son Samuel. But sadly, like Daredevil and Elektra,
Bennifer 2.0 weren't meant to be: calling it quits in 2005 after 10
years of marriage.
Actress Elodie Yung succeeds Garner in the second season of Marvel's "Daredevil"
as Elektra, who recruits Matt (Charlie Cox) and his "glorious darkness"
as the Devil of Hell's Kitchen in the war against the Hand.
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