Casey Affleck (born Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt; August 12, 1975) is an American actor, writer, filmmaker, and producer. He frequently collaborates with older brother Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
In his teens he appeared in the TV movie Lemon Sky (1988), with Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Lindsay Crouse, Welker White, and Tom Atkins; and ministers The Kennedys of Massachusetts (1990), with William Petersen, Annette O’Toole, Charles Durning, Tracy Pollan, Pat Hingle, Steven Weber, Campbell Scott, Madolyn Smith, and Josef Sommer. He Made his film debut in Gus Van Sant’s To Die For (1995), with Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix, Matt Dillon, Illeana Douglas, Wayne Knight, Kurtwood Smith, Dan Hedaya, and Alison Folland.
Other films in the 1990s include Race the Sun (1996), with Halle Berry, James Belushi, Bill Hunter, Eliza Dushku, Anthony Ruivivar, Kevin Tighe, Steve Zahn, and Joel Edgerton; Floating (1997), with Norman Reedus, Chad Lowe, Will Lyman, Sybil Temchen, Robert Harriell; Chasing Amy (1997), with Ben, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee, Dwight Ewell, Jason Mewes, and Kevin Smith (who also directed); Good Will Hunting (1997), with Robin Williams, Damon, Ben, Stellan Skarsgård, Minnie Driver, and Cole Hauser; Desert Blue (1998), with Brendan Sexton III, Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci, Sara Gilbert, and John Heard; 200 Cigarettes (1999), with Ben, Dave Chappelle, Guillermo Díaz, Angela Featherstone, Janeane Garofalo, Gaby Hoffmann, Hudson, Courtney Love, Jay Mohr, Nicole Ari Parker, Martha Plimpton, Ricci, and Paul Rudd; and an uncredited cameo in American Pie (1999), with Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Alyson Hannigan, Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Mena Suvari, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Seann William Scott, Eugene Levy, Shannon Elizabeth, Chris Owen, and Jennifer Coolidge.
Films in the early 2000s include Drowning Mons (2000), with Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, William Fichtner, Marcus Thomas, and Peter Dobson; Committed (2000), with Heather Graham, Luke Wilson, Goran Višnjić, Alfonso Arau, and Patricia Velásquez; Michael Almereyda (2000), with Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Diane Venora, Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Bill Murray, Karl Geary, Zahn, and Sam Shepard; Attention Shoppers (2000), with Nestor Carbonell, Michael Lerner, Kathy Najimy, Martin Mull, Luke Perry, Cara Buono, and Lin Shaye; and Soul Survivor (2001), with Wes Bentley, Dushku, Featherstone, Melissa Sagemiller, and Wilson.
He’s also well known for his role in Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Trilogy (2001, 2004, 2007), collectively with George Clooney, Damon, Andy García, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle, Scott Caan, Elliott Gould, Bernie Mac, Carl Reiner, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vincent Cassel, Eddie Jemison, Shaobo Qin, Ellen Barkin, and Al Pacino.
He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in Andrew Dominik’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), with Pitt, Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Paul Schneider, Jeremy Renner, Zooey Deschanel, and Sam Rockwell. Other films in the mid to late 2000s include Steve Buscemi’s Lonesome Jim (2005), with Liv Tyler, Kevin Corrigan, Mary Kay Place, Seymour Cassel, and Mark Boone Junior; The Last Kiss (2006), with Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Rachel Bilson, Michael Weston, Eric Christian Olsen, Marley Shelton, Harold Ramis, Blythe Danner, and Tom Wilkinson; and Ben’s directorial debut Gone Baby Gone (2007), with Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, John Ashton, Amy Ryan, Amy Madigan, and Titus Welliver.
He made his directorial debut with the mockumentaty I’m Still Here (2010), with Phoenix and various other celebrities playing themselves. Other films in the 2010s include Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me (2010), with Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty, Elias Koteas, Tom Bower, Simon Baker, and Bill Pullman; Tower Heist (2011), with Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Judd Hirsch, Téa Leoni, Michael Peña, and Gabourey Sidibe; a voice role in ParaNorman (2012), with Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jodelle Ferland, Bernard Hill, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, and John Goodman; David Lowry’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013), with Rooney Mara, Ben Foster, Rami Malek, Keith Carradine, Charles Baker, and Nate Parker; Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace (2013), with Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, Zoë Saldana, and Shepard; and Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014), with Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Mackenzie Foy, John Lithgow, Timothée Chalamet, Damon, and Michael Caine.
He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea (2016), with Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Gretchen Mol, and Lucas Hedges. Other films in the late 2010s include Craig Gillespie’s The Finest Hour (2016), with Chris Pine, Foster, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz, and Eric Bana; Triple 9 (2016), with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul, Clifton Collins Jr., Reedus, Teresa Palmer, Michael K. Williams, Gal Gadot, Woody Harrelson, and Kate Winslet; A Ghost Story (2017), with Mara, Will Oldham, Liz Cardenas Franke, Sonia Acevedo, and Rob Zabrecky; The Old Man & the Gun (2018), with Robert Redford, Danny Glover, Tika Sumpter, Tom Waits, and Sissy Spacek; Light of My Life (2019), with Anna Pniowsky, Tom Bower, and Elisabeth Moss; and Our Friend (2019), with Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson, and Cherry Jones.
Films in the 2020s include Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come (2020), with Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby, and Christopher Abbott; Every Breath You Take (2021), with Sam Claflin, Veronica Ferres, India Eisley, Emily Alyn Lind, and Monaghan; Dreamin’ Wild (2022), with Noah Jupe, Deschanel, Walton Goggins, Jack Dylan Grazer, Chris Messina, and Beau Bridges; Oppenheimer (2023), with Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Benny Safdie, Jason Clarke, Dylan Arnold, Tom Conti, James D’Arcy, David Dastmalchian, Dane DeHaan, Alden Ehrenreich, Tony Goodwyn, Jefferson Hall, David Krumholtz, Matthew Modine, and Gary Oldman; Doug Liman’s The Instigators (2024), with Damon, Hong Chau, Michael Stuhlbarg, Paul Walter Hauser, Ving Rhames, Alfred Molina, Toby Jones, Jack Harlow, and Ron Perlman; Slingshot (2024), with Laurence Fishburne, Emily Beecham, Tomer Kapon, and David Morrissey.
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- Lemon Sky (1988) – directed by Jan Egleson – TV movie
- The Kennedys of Massachusetts (1990) – directed by Lamont Johnson – miniseries
- To Die For (1995) – directed by Gus Van Sant
- Race the Sun (1996) – directed by Charles T. Kanganis
- Floating (1997) – directed by William Roth
- Chasing Amy (1997) – directed by Kevin Smith – cameo
- Good Will Hunting (1997) – directed by Gus Van Sant
- Desert Blue (1998) – directed by Morgan J. Freeman
- 200 Cigarettes (1999) – directed by Risa Bramon Garcia
- American Pie (1999) – directed by Paul Weitz – uncredited cameo
- Drowning Mona (2000) – directed by Nick Gomez
- Committed (2000) – directed by Lisa Krueger
- Hamlet (2000) – directed by Michael Almereyda
- Attention Shoppers (2000) – directed by Philip Charles MacKenzie
- Ocean’s Eleven (2001) – directed by Steven Soderbergh
- American Pie 2 (2001) – directed by James B. Rogers – cameo
- Soul Survivor (2001) – directed by Stephen Carpenter
- Gerry (2002) – directed by Gus Van Sant – also co-writer, co-editor
- Ocean’s Twelve (2004) – directed by Stephen Soderbergh
- Lonesome Jim (2005) – directed by Steve Buscemi
- The Last Kiss (2006) – directed by Tony Goldwyn
- Ocean’s Thirteen (2007) – directed by Stephen Soderbergh
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) – directed by Andrew Dominik
- Gone Baby Gone (2007) – directed by Ben Affleck
- The Killer Inside Me (2010) – directed by Michael Winterbottom
- I’m Still Here (2010) – also director, co-writer, producer, co-editor, co-cinematographer
- Tower Heist (2011) – directed by Brett Ratner
- ParaNorman (2012)* – directed by Sam Fell & Chris Butler
- Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013) – directed by David Lowery
- Out of the Furnace (2013) – directed by Scott Cooper
- Interstellar (2014) – directed by Christopher Nolan
- Unity (2015) – directed by Shaun Monson – narrator – documentary
- Manchester by the Sea (2016) – directed by Kenneth Lonergan
- The Finest Hour (2016) – directed by Craig Gillespie
- Triple 9 (2016) – directed by John Hillcoat
- A Ghost Story (2017) – directed by David Lowery
- The Old Msn & the Gun (2018) – directed by David Lowery
- Light of My Life (2019) – also director, writer, producer
- Our Friend (2019) – directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite
- The World to Come (2020) – directed by Mona Fastvold – also producer
- Every Breath You Take (2021) – directed by Vaughn Stein – also executive producer
- Dreamin’ Wild (2022) – directed by Bill Pohlad
- Oppenheimer (2023)* – directed by Christopher Nolan
- The Instigators (2024) – directed by Doug Liman – also co-writer
- Slingshot (2024) – directed by Mikael Håfström
- Company (2026) – also director, co-writer, producer
- Bitcoin (202-) – directed by Doug Liman
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