Meet Matt Damon’s wife of 19 years, Luciana Barroso: the Argentinian shares 3 children with the Oppenheimer actor, and holidays with the Hemsworths – but did you know they met at a bar?

STORYMaggie Tan

May 9 , 2024

Luciana Barroso (left) and Matt Damon met in a bar in Miami in 2003 – and the rest is history. Photo: Invision/AP

Fame and celebrity

In 2003, Barroso and Damon met at the Miami bar she was working in, and she put him to work making cocktails – 21 years later, they’re still one of Hollywood’s most solid couples

The pair share 3 children together, Isabella, Gia and Stella – and the same tattoo designed by late actor Heath Ledger – they’re also good friends with Chris Hemsworth and his wife Elsa Pataky

If you’re wondering which lucky lady stole the Bourne Identity star’s heart, you’re not alone.

Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso appear to be one of Hollywood’s most rock-solid couples. Photo: @mattpdamon/Instagram

Matt Damon’s wife of almost two decades, Luciana Barroso, has been by his side since they tied the knot in December 2005. This rock-solid celeb couple tend to keep their personal lives private and often shield their daughters from the limelight.

Luciana Barroso and Matt Damon depart The Mark Hotel prior to attending The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” on May 6, in New York. Photo: Invision/AP

Which is why when they rocked up to the premiere of Oppenheimer last July in Paris, it was a rare treat for fans to see the entire family on the red carpet.

Matt Damon and his daughters at the Oppenheimer premiere in Paris, last July. Photo: Getty Images

So what do we know about Luciana Barroso, the 47-year-old Argentinian who’s been by Damon’s side all these years?

How did Matt Damon meet his wife, Luciana Barroso?

Actor Matt Damon and his then girlfriend Luciana Barroso watch the game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston, in 2005. Photo: AP Photo

Barroso was working as a bartender in Miami when she first met the Hollywood actor. What’s more, their meet-cute is truly romcom worthy. Damon revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that they met in 2003 while he was shooting the film Stuck on You. “I literally saw her across a crowded room,” he recalled. “I don’t know how else our paths would’ve crossed if that didn’t happen.”

In an interview with Vogue Australia in 2018, Barroso shared that Damon had approached her at the bar, but “he had started getting recognised and asked for pictures and autographs, and then it got kind of aggressive because people are drinking and stuff, and so he came and hid behind my bar”.