Ben Affleck’s rarely-seen daughter Violet is her mom’s double in stylish outing

Ben Affleck’s eldest daughter, Violet Affleck, looked just like her mother, Jennifer Garner, as she stepped out with the actress for a lunch date on Thursday.

While Jennifer rocked a dark-wash denim skirt and a red patterned blouse with black sandals and sunglasses, her 20-year-old daughter looked laid back in a printed maxi dress and sneakers, paired with a bright blue handbag.

Violet stood taller than her mother as they headed out for lunch, and wore a bright smile on her face, clearly enjoying the quality time.

Jennifer was married to Ben from 2005 until 2015, when they went their separate ways. The pair, who share Violet, Fin, 17, and Samuel, 13, remained close friends in the wake of their divorce for the sake of their children.

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Saying goodbye to grandma Chris

It has been a tough couple of months for Violet and her siblings, after their beloved grandmother, Chris Affleck, passed away in early June aged 83.

As per her obituary in The Boston Globe, Chris’ grandchildren were “the animating force of her last two decades,” and she “was suitably proud of her descendants’ achievements, but she was delighted when they questioned, defied, or cleverly engaged authority.”

Violet undoubtedly inherited her passion for social justice from her grandmother, who worked as a public school teacher for more than three decades.

Chris protested the Vietnam War in the ’60s, organized with the Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine, and joined the campaign trail for Barack Obama in 2008.

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The obituary continued: “In her beloved Truro, she was a founding board member of the Sustainable Cape project. When her granddaughter’s student activist group needed a space for trainings, she invited them to Truro and attended every single workshop herself, taking notes.”

Violet’s fierce activism revealed

Violet is a fierce activist just like Chris, and even addressed the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025, advocating for mask mandates in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“It is a neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say, ‘We knew how to protect you, and we didn’t do it. We have access to a technology to prevent airborne disease, something that millions of our ancestors and millions of people around the world today would kill for, and we refuse to use it,'” she said in her speech.

Speaking out against the paparazzi

Jennifer shared with The Hollywood Reporter that Violet’s strong sense of justice was present even in childhood, and recounted how her daughter stood up to the paparazzi who were hounding the young family.

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“Violet’s hyper-articulate – she is Ben Affleck’s daughter,” the 13 Going On 30 star recalled.

“And she stood up on a chair in a little velvet dress, with her hair a bit back and her glasses on, and she didn’t say her Rs right, and she said: ‘We didn’t ask for this. We don’t want these cameras; they’re scary. The men are scary, they knock each other over, and it’s hard to feel like a kid when you’re being chased.'”