Casey Affleck

Casey Affleck born Caleb Casey McGuire AffleckBoldt August 12 1975 is an American actor He receives 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 and in Steven Soderberghs Oceans film series 20012007 His first role was in Steve Buscemis independent comedydrama Lonesome Jim 2006 Afflecks breakthrough came in 2007 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 brothers crime drama Gone Baby Gone In 2010 he directed the mockumentary Im Still Here He went on to appear in Tower Heist 2011 ParaNorman 2012 and Interstellar 2014 and he received praise for his performance as an outlaw in Aint Them Bodies Saints 2013 In 2016 Affleck starred in the drama Manchester by the Sea in which his performance as a grieving man earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor He has since starred in the dramas A Ghost Story 2017 and The Old Man the Gun 2018 and as Boris Pash in the biographical thriller Oppenheimer 2023 his highestgrossing release Description above from the Wikipedia article Casey Affleck licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia