Casey Affleck's Real Name: Casey Affleck

Quick answer: Casey Affleck is known professionally and in major reference works as Casey Affleck. Encyclopaedia Britannica records that he was born on August 12, 1975, in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and that he is an American actor who won the Academy Award, a BAFTA award, and a Golden Globe Award for best actor for Manchester by the Sea (2016) (Britannica).

Real name and early life

The Library of Congress heading is "Affleck, Casey, 1975-." Citations in that record, including IMDb, give a longer form, Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt; because that fuller name is documented there only through IMDb, this page uses the public name in the title. Britannica says he grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He appeared in the 1988 television production of Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky and portrayed a young Robert Kennedy in the 1990 miniseries The Kennedys of Massachusetts, but it was high-school theater classes that persuaded him to pursue acting.

Career highlights

He made his big-screen debut in Gus Van Sant's To Die For (1995) and later appeared in Van Sant's Good Will Hunting, cowritten by his older brother, Ben Affleck. Character parts in Desert Blue (1998), 200 Cigarettes (1999), and a modern Hamlet (2000) preceded a role in the caper comedy Ocean's Eleven (2001), which he repeated in Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). He drew favorable reviews in Steve Buscemi's Lonesome Jim (2005) and received Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for best supporting actor as Robert Ford in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007). The same year he starred in his brother's directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone. He later cowrote, directed, and acted in the mockumentary I'm Still Here (2010), starring Joaquin Phoenix. He also appeared in The Killer Inside Me (2010) and in Tower Heist (2011), Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013), and Interstellar (2014). After Manchester by the Sea, he appeared in The Finest Hours and Triple 9 (both 2016), A Ghost Story (2017), The Old Man & the Gun (2018), and his own feature Light of My Life (2019). In 2023 he appeared in Oppenheimer.

Name notes for searchers

Casey Affleck is the name used in Britannica and the Library of Congress heading. Searchers looking for the Oscar winner from Manchester by the Sea, or for Ben Affleck's younger brother, are usually aiming at the same person.