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Casey Affleck
Casey Affleck is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award. The younger brother of actor Ben Affleck, he began his career as a child actor, appearing in the PBS television film Lemon Sky (1988). He later appeared in three Gus Van Sant films: To Die For (1995), Good Will Hunting (1997), Gerry (2002…
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entertainment · American actor (born 1975) · film producer · screenwriter · film actor · stage actor · television actor · actor · film director · voice actor · film editor · also Casey Affleck, Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt, Caleb Casey Affleck, Affleck
Born 12 August 1975 · Q270730
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2026· 4 entries
Public attention spiked: 20,784 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.5× the usual 3,179, with 2 article edits. Coverage that week: “Chris Affleck, mother of Ben and Casey Affleck, dies at 83” (Yahoo).
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Yahoo: Chris Affleck, mother of Ben and Casey Affleck, dies at 83
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Variety: Casey Affleck’s Gothic Mystery ‘Company’ to Star Nick Nolte, Adelaide Clemens, Ben Mendelsohn and Scoot McNairy (EXCLUSIVE)
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Dreamin’ Wild review – Walton Goggins and Casey Affleck are rediscovered 70s rockers in late-life fame drama
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: Slingshot review – Casey Affleck is impeccable in solid sci-fi saga
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The Guardian: The Instigators review – Matt Damon and Casey Affleck languish in heist caper misfire
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The Guardian: The Instigators review – Matt Damon and Casey Affleck can’t save underpowered heist comedy
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2023· 2 entries
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Affleck played the supporting role of military intelligence officer Boris Pash in Christopher Nolan's biopic Oppenheimer
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Every Breath You Take review – Casey Affleck fires blanks in trashy psychodrama
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2019· 3 entries
The Guardian: Casey Affleck reveals 'ton of partying' on film set where harassment allegations were made
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And received positive reviews from film critics
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Directed, wrote and starred in the survival drama Light of My Life
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2018· 5 entries
East Bay Times: Casey Affleck opens up in the wake of #MeToo
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The Guardian: Casey Affleck: 'I contributed to an unprofessional environment' – video
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The Guardian: Casey Affleck admits 'unprofessional' behaviour on set of I'm Still Here
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The Guardian: Casey Affleck withdraws from presenting best actress award at Oscars
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Affleck starred opposite Robert Redford in the outlaw drama The Old Man & the Gun, his third collaboration with Lowery
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2017· 8 entries
The Guardian: A Ghost Story review – Casey Affleck is truly haunting
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The Guardian: A Ghost Story review – Casey Affleck goes undercover in a strange and haunting tale
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Phoenix officially filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences", and it was finalized three days later
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Manchester by the Sea (2017).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Manchester by the Sea (2017).
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Affleck supported the 37th Annual National Veterans Wheelchair Games hosted by Paralyzed Veterans of America
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Career landmark: founder (2017).
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Multiple financial contributions to Trump were made by Affleck's production company, which he co-founded with John Powers Middleton
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2016· 4 entries
Affleck said: "We never thought people would actually think it was real
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“We never thought people would actually think it was real ... In hindsight, we should have had a press junket and done talk shows and said how it was a mockumentary.”
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Affleck starred in the drama Manchester by the Sea, in which his performance as a grieving janitor earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor
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The first two of which underperformed financially
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2015· 1 entry
“When people ask me why I don’t eat meat or any other animal products, I say because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry. Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions only to die a prolonged and painful death.”
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2014· 2 entries
Affleck and producer John Powers Middleton launched the production company, The Affleck/Middleton Project
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Affleck and Jessica Chastain had supporting roles in Christopher Nolan's science fiction film Interstellar as the grown-up children of Matthew McConaughey's character, with Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter describ
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2010· 2 entries
Directed the mockumentary I'm Still Here
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Two of his former co-workers from I'm Still Here filed civil lawsuits against Affleck
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2008· 1 entry
Affleck filmed an episode of documentary series 4Real, in which he visited the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, and remarked upon the progress they had made due largely to "their own resourcefulness and determination and their
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2007· 2 entries
With the release of two films featuring critically acclaimed performances
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When he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Robert Ford in the Western drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and starred in his brother's crime
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2006· 1 entry
Had a supporting role in the romantic comedy The Last Kiss as a friend of Zach Braff's character
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2002· 2 entries
Affleck starred with Damon and then-girlfriend Summer Phoenix in a West End stage production of Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth
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Affleck and Damon starred in Van Sant's experimental drama Gerry, playing two men who get lost while hiking in the desert
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2001· 1 entry
Had a small role in American Pie 2 and appeared in the teen slasher film Soul Survivors
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2000· 2 entries
Affleck had a small role in the comedy Attention Shoppers and played Fortinbras in Ethan Hawke's Hamlet
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And acted together in both the 2000 film Committed and a 2002 stage production of This Is Our Youth
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1999· 1 entry
Made an uncredited appearance in the teen comedy American Pie and appeared as a punk rocker romantically involved with both Gaby Hoffmann and Christina Ricci's characters in the New Year's Eve ensemble comedy 200 Ciga
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1997· 1 entry
Had a small role in Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy, starring his brother
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1975· 2 entries
In Falmouth, Massachusetts, to Christopher Anne "Chris" Boldt (1942 – June 2, 2026) and Timothy Byers Affleck
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Born 1975-08-12.
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