Casey Affleck

Casey Affleck
	; Affleck at the 89th Academy Awards
2 Nominations / 1 Win
Role	Actor, Director
Born	August 12, 1975
	Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA

Casey Affleck is an American actor and film director. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, he starred in numerous independent films. Casey is the younger brother of actor and director Ben Affleck, with whom he has frequently collaborated professionally. He began his career as a child actor, appearing in the PBS television movie "Lemon Sky" (1988) and the ABC miniseries "The Kennedys of Massachusetts" (1990). He later appeared in three Gus Van Sant films - To Die For (1995), Good Will Hunting (1997), and Gerry (2002) - and in Steven Soderbergh's comedy heist trilogy Ocean's Eleven(2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). His first leading role was as a depressed writer in Steve Buscemi's independent comedy-drama Lonesome Jim (2006). 2007 was a breakthrough year for Affleck. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the Western drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and received further acclaim for his role as a conflicted private investigator in the crime drama Gone Baby Gone, directed by his brother Ben Affleck. In 2010, he directed the mockumentary I'm Still Here, featuring his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix, and starred as a serial killer in The Killer Inside Me. He then appeared as an outlaw in Ain't Them Bodies Saints and as an Iraq War veteran in Out of the Furnace (both 2013). In 2016, Affleck played a uncorruptible detective in the crime thriller Triple 9, a taciturn engineer in the disaster drama The Finest Hours, and a grief-stricken man in the drama Manchester by the Sea.