Casey Affleck
Affleck in June 2006
Born	Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt (1975-08-12) August 12, 1975 (age 36) Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1988–present
Spouse	Summer Phoenix (2006–present)
Children	2: Indiana (born 2004) Atticus (born 2008)

Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt^[1] (born August 12, 1975), better known as Casey Affleck, is an American actor and film director. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, he played supporting roles in mainstream hits like Good Will Hunting (1997) and Ocean's Eleven (2001) as well as in critically acclaimed independent films such as Chasing Amy (1997). Casey is the younger brother of actor and director Ben Affleck, with whom he has frequently collaborated professionally. In 2007, his breakout year,^[2][3] Affleck gained recognition and critical acclaim for his work in Gone Baby Gone and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Early life[link]

Affleck was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He is the younger brother of Ben Affleck, and second son of Christine Anne "Chris" (née Boldt), a school district employee and teacher, and Timothy Byers Affleck, a drug counselor, social worker, janitor, auto mechanic, bartender, and former actor with the Theater Company of Boston.^[1] Affleck has Irish, Scottish, German, and English ancestry (the surname "Affleck" is Scottish), and is a distant cousin of actor Matt Damon.^[4][5] He was raised in a mostly Episcopalian family.^[6] Affleck is three years younger than his brother Ben.^[7] As a child he had numerous pets, including cats, snakes, guinea pigs and turtles.^[8] Affleck went to George Washington University and later transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in physics, astronomy, and Western philosophy, but never graduated.^[9] Affleck worked sporadically on television while finishing high school and attending college during the early 1990s.

Career[link]

Early work, 1995–2006[link]

Affleck's first movie role was as a sociopathic teenager in Gus Van Sant's 1995 dark comedy To Die For, alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Nicole Kidman.^[10] After co-starring with Halle Berry in the 1997 box office flop Race the Sun, later that year he appeared in two films featuring his brother Ben: Chasing Amy and Good Will Hunting.

Affleck's next few films, the underground movie Desert Blue (1998) with Kate Hudson, the black comedy Drowning Mona (1999) with Bette Midler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Neve Campbell, and Danny DeVito, and the 2001 horror movie Soul Survivors (co-starring Luke Wilson) were all critical as well as commercial failures.^[11]