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Casey Affleck (born August 12, 1975) is an Academy Award-, SAG Award- and Golden Globe-nominated American actor and the younger brother of actor-director-writer Ben Affleck. the likeable and low-key Casey Affleck, who enjoyed a slow and steady rise as an actor, saw the show business mechanics from the inside out while watching his older brother Ben Affleck gain meteoric Hollywood success as well as the inevitable and subsequently vicious backlash. Still, the younger Affleck saw himself on another path, eschewing studio-produced Frankenstein projects in favor of eclectic character parts. The promise of his early work in “To Die For” (1995) and “Good Will Hunting” (1997) did eventually lead him to the blockbuster types like “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001) and its star-packed sequels. While nestled comfortably into one of Hollywood’s most entertaining ensembles, Affleck still found a way to comfortably transform in a variety of projects, creating a witty, quirky onscreen persona along the way. How ironic then, that it was his superstar brother who, despite potential cries of nepotism, cast Affleck in the moody, haunting thriller that was Ben's directorial debut, "Gone, Baby, Gone" (2007) making critics and audiences see his little brother as a real leading man in his own right at long last. Affleck was born Caleb Casey Affleck-Boldt in Falmouth, Massachusetts, the son of Chris Ann (née Boldt), a school district employee and teacher, and Timothy Affleck, a drug counselor, social worker, janitor, auto mechanic, bartender, and former actor with the Theater Company of Boston. As a child he had numerous pets, including cats, snakes, guinea pigs and turtles. Affleck went to 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 Sant's 1995 dark comedy To Die For, alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Nicole Kidman. After starring the following year in the box office flop Race the Sun (co-starring Halle Berry), he appeared in two films featuring older brother Ben Affleck: Chasing Amy and Good Will Hunting. The latter was a major hit and jump-started the careers of Matt Damon and the Affleck brothers. Ben Affleck and Damon went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Affleck then starred in the underground movie Desert Blue, a film which met with limited success, but also featured rising star Kate Hudson. He took time off from acting before playing another role. He next starred in the black comedy Drowning Mona with Bette Midler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Neve Campbell, and Danny DeVito. The movie performed poorly at the box office and with critics. He then starred in the 2001 horror movie Soul Survivors, co-starring Luke Wilson, Wes Bentley, and Eliza Dushku. Affleck later admitted in an interview to Nylon Magazine that he was ashamed to have been involved with both films. Affleck headed to London’s West End with Damon and Phoenix for a 2002 stage production of Kenneth Lonergan’s “This is Our Youth.” He and Damon then conceived the curiously dialogue-light, stranded hiker drama, “Gerry” (2002), under Van Sant’s experimental direction, before dropping back into the fold of “Ocean’s Twelve” (2004). At the time of production in May 2004, Affleck and Phoenix were engaged and saw their son, Indiana August, born while on location in Amsterdam. By 2005, he was ready to headline movies himself, pulling in a strong performance as Jim, the depressed, Midwestern aspiring writer of “Lonesome Jim” (2005), before tackling the adult responsibilities of marriage and fatherhood in the ensemble drama, “The Last Kiss” (2006). Affleck followed them up with a re-make of the Rat Pack movie Ocean's Eleven, directed by Steven Soderbergh. The 2001 release had a star-studded cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia, and Julia Roberts. Affleck played Virgil Malloy, one of the pair of brothers hired to drive the getaway vehicle. Affleck would return to this character in Ocean's Twelve in 2004, and Ocean's Thirteen, released in June 2007. In the latter film, several scenes take place in Mexico, where Affleck lived as a child, and in which he has extended dialogue in Spanish, in which he is fluent. After establishing his movie career, Affleck turned to screenwriting, teaming up with Matt Damon to write the 2002 film Gerry about two friends who get lost while hiking in the desert, directed by Van Sant. Affleck also starred in the film The Last Kiss as a friend of Zach Braff's character and made a cameo in the Joaquin Phoenix-directed video "Tired of Being Sorry" for Balthazar Getty's band Ringside. In 2007, he starred in the Western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, playing Robert Ford to Brad Pitt's Jesse James. For this role he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture at the 65th Golden Globe Awards and an Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role at the 80th Academy Awards. He also starred in the critically acclaimed Gone Baby Gone in which he appeared as the main protagonist, Patrick Kenzie. The movie was directed by his brother, Ben Affleck. In April 2008, director Ridley Scott had announced his new project The Kind One, a period noir drama set for release in 2010. Affleck has been cast in the lead role. Brother of actor Ben Affleck. Attended Columbia University, majoring in Physics. During this time he lived with his grandma in Manhattan. Currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Summer Phoenix, and son, Indiana August. Is of Scottish-Irish descent. In the March issue of Nylon Magazine, Casey Affleck admits to being ashamed of two movies in his career: Drowning Mona (2000) and Soul Survivors (2001). Is a vegan. Best friends with Joaquin Phoenix. Appeared with brother Ben Affleck in two 1997 movies, Chasing Amy (1997), Good Will Hunting (1997) and in 200 Cigarettes (1999). His older brother, Ben Affleck, and his fiancée's older brother, River Phoenix, have both played versions of characters played by Harrison Ford. Ben Affleck played Jack Ryan in The Sum of All Fears (2002), and River Phoenix played the young Indy in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). He and fiancée Summer Phoenix welcomed a son, Indiana August, on May 31, 2004, in Amsterdam. Brother-in-law of Jennifer Garner, Joaquin Phoenix, River Phoenix, Rain Phoenix and Liberty Phoenix. He and Summer Phoenix were a couple for six years before they married. He and his brother Ben Affleck have both had on-screen romances with Liv Tyler: Lonesome Jim (2005), Armageddon (1998) and Jersey Girl (2004). Son Indiana August, born 31 May 2004. He was born in Amsterdam. Casey and Summer became the parents of their second child, a boy January 12, 2008. His mother purchased work by Boston acclaimed photographer Brian Carroll as a gift to Casey, for the back-to-back premieres of Gone Baby Gone (2007) and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007). Affleck married actress Summer Phoenix, his girlfriend of six years, on June 3, 2006. The couple were introduced by her brother, Joaquin Phoenix, Affleck's close friend. The couple have two sons, Indiana August, who was born on May 31, 2004 in Amsterdam and an as yet unnamed son born in November 2007. Affleck is involved with many animal rights movements and campaigns for PETA and Farm Sanctuary. He is a vegan. |
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