10 Actor Comebacks NOBODY Saw Coming

10. Ben Affleck

After managing to bag an Oscar alongside pal Matt Damon at a very early stage in his career, the sky appeared to be the limit for the charismatic and undeniably gifted Ben Affleck.

However, after slowly turning himself into one of Hollywood's new leading men in the time post-Good Will Hunting, a string of box office disasters appeared to derail his promising career.

So, after the critically panned outings that were 2003's Daredevil, Gigli, and Payback, Affleck ultimately decided to turn his attention to directing a few years later.

His first flick, Gone Baby Gone, was adored by critics. But it was crime thriller The Town and historical drama Argo that really announced the once downtrodden thespian as one of the hottest directors in the business, just a few years on from feeling like the "most un-f***ing cool guy in the world", as he put it to Howard Stern.

And before long, he was surprisingly once again lifting Academy Award gold and even stepping back into the superhero genre, this time as the Batman.

Not even a rather turbulent time as 'The Caped Crusader' and his very public struggles with addiction could keep this resilient artist down, though, with Affleck returning from rehab in 2018 to eventually star in the likes of The Way Back and The Tender Bar before directing and appearing in the well-received Nike Air Jordan biographical drama Air earlier this year.