Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt, known professionally as Casey Affleck, (born August 12, 1975) is an American actor and director. 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 in Steve Buscemi's independent comedy-drama "Lonesome Jim" (2006).

In 2016, Affleck appeared in the crime thriller "Triple 9", the disaster drama "The Finest Hours" and the drama "Manchester by the Sea". For his performance in the latter as Lee Chandler, a grief-stricken man, he won more than 40 awards, including the Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actor and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

Affleck's breakthrough was in 2007, when 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 acted in the crime drama "Gone Baby Gone", directed by his brother Ben Affleck. In 2010, he directed the mockumentary "I'm Still Here", featuring Joaquin Phoenix, and starred as a serial killer in "The Killer Inside Me". He appeared as an outlaw in "Ain't Them Bodies Saints".

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