Casey Affleck Biography

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 Oceans Eleven (2001) as well as in critically acclaimed independent films such as Chasing Amy (1997). During this time, he became known as the younger brother of actor and director Ben Affleck, with whom he has frequently collaborated professionally. In 2007, his breakout year,Affleck gained recognition and critical acclaim for his work in Gone Baby Gone and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Affleck was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He is the 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.Affleck has Irish, Scottish, German and English ancestry, and is a distant cousin of actor Matt Damon. He was raised in a mostly Episcopalian family.Affleck is three years younger than his brother Ben Affleck As a child he had numerous pets, including cats, snakes, guinea pigs and turtles. 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.Affleck worked sporadically on television while finishing high school and attending college during the early 1990s.

Afflecks first movie role was as a sociopathic teenager in Gus Van Sants 1995 dark comedy To Die For, alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Nicole Kidman.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.

In 2010 Affleck released his first major directorial effort, Im Still Here, a mockumentary about the musical career of his friend and brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix, who attempted to live a lifestyle of a rapper in one year. After much speculation, Affleck admitted shortly after the films release that Phoenixs role was a performance rather than genuine behavior, stating that he never intended to trick anybody, rather, the production was a work of gonzo filmmaking inspired by journalists such as Hunter S Thompson.

Next, Affleck teamed with Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson in The Killer Inside Me (2010), a film adaptation of the 1952 novel of the same name. In January 2010, The Killer Inside Me premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was received poorly by many critics and created controversy due to its graphic portrayal of violence against women, which prompted many viewers to walk out of the screening, including Jessica Alba herself.However critics generally praised Afflecks performance as a serial killer.

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