Casey Affleck (born August 12, 1975) is an American actor. He has acted in films such as Good Will Hunting, Ocean's Eleven, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and Gone Baby Gone. He has been nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe awards. He is the younger brother of Ben Affleck.
Affleck was born Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt in Falmouth, Massachusetts, the son of Christopher Anne "Chris" (née Boldt), a schoo...
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Casey Affleck (born August 12, 1975) is an American actor. He has acted in films such as Good Will Hunting, Ocean's Eleven, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and Gone Baby Gone. He has been nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe awards. He is the younger brother of Ben Affleck.
Affleck was born Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt in Falmouth, Massachusetts, the son of Christopher 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. He is the younger brother of Ben Affleck. As a child he had numerous pets, including cats, snakes, guinea pigs and turtles. Affleck went to The George Washington University, later transferring to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in physics, astronomy, and Western philosophy.
Affleck's first movie role was as a sociopathic teenager in Gus Van...
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