Casey Affleck

Birth Name: Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt

Nickname/Stage Name: Casey Affleck

Birth Date: August 12, 1975

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Occupation(s): Actor, Director

Years Active: 1988 till Present

Net Worth: $20 million

 

Personal Life

Casey Affleck was born in Massachusetts and recalls his father being "a disaster of a drinker". He was introduced to actress Summer Phoenix in the late 1990s and they started dating in 2000.

The pair became engaged in January 2004 and got married on June 3, 2006. They have two children, sons Indiana August (born in 2004) and Atticus (born in 2008). They separated privately in November 2015, announcing their split in March 2016.

Affleck started a relationship with actress Floriana Lima in 2016. They have since gone their separate ways.

Education

He attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and studied at the Columbia University, New York. He did not graduate from the latter institution, saying: "I would do a semester of school, go do a movie... Opportunities kept presenting themselves that were hard for me to turn down... By then, I didn't really have roots at the school or a group of friends."

Career

Affleck got professional acting roles as a child and appeared as Kevin Bacon's brother in the PBS TV movie Lemon Sky (1988). 

His first movie role came when he later moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. He acted as a sociopathic teen in the satirical comedy To Die For (1995).

During his time studying at Columbia, he got a supporting role in Good Will Hunting (1997). He also had a minor role in Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy (1997).

The actor's career subsequently entered a "dark" phase where he was featured in a series of supporting roles and commercial failures.

He found a degree of commercial success when he was cast in the heist film Ocean's Eleven (2001) and his next lead role was in the 2006 film Lonesome Jim.

Affleck's breakthrough came in 2007 with the release of the critically successful movies, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Gone Baby Gone.

He returned to regular acting work after a short pause in 2013, starring opposite Rooney Mara in Ain't Them Bodies Saints. He played a grieving alcoholic in Manchester by the Sea (2016).

In 2019, he directed, wrote, and starred in the survival movie Light of my Life. It received mainly positive reviews from critics.

Awards

National Society of Film Critics Award (2007, 2016)

San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award (2007)

Satellite Award (2007)

St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award (2007, 2016)

Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award (2016)

Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award (2016)

Boston Society of Film Critics Award (2016)

Chicago Film Critics Association Award (2016)

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award (2016)

Gotham Award (2016)

Independent Spirit Award (2016)

London Film Critics' Circle Award (2016)

New York Film Critics Circle Award (2016)

Online Film Critics Society Award (2016)

San Diego Film Critics Society Award (2016)

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award (2016)

Academy Award (2017)

BAFTA Award (2017)

Critics' Choice Award (2017)

Golden Globe Award (2017)

Quotes

"My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark."

"I love taking a risk. If I'm a little bit of a part, that's the first indication that it's going to be good for me."

"I'm tired of playing the brat."

"Celebrity never really served me that well; it serves other people well."

Trivia

Younger brother of actor Ben Affleck.

Appeared with his brother in the films Chasing Amy (1997), Good Will Hunting (1997), and 200 Cigarettes (1999).

Is friends with Matt Damon, Liv Tyler, and Kate Hudson.

Movies

To Die For (1995)

Good Will Hunting (1997)

American Pie (1999)

Soul Survivors (2001)

Ocean's Twelve (2004)

Gone Baby Gone (2007)

Tower Heist (2011)

Interstellar (2014)

Manchester by the Sea (2016)

The Old Man & the Gun (2018)

The World to Come (2020)

Every Breath You Take (2021)