Just like a brother. Affleck Casey: film career and personal life

We must give him his due. He did not stay in the shadow of his brother, but worked hard and built his successful acting career. In proof of this - an impressive collection of films, several awards and great prospects in the future. What can I say, Affleck Casey is on his heels. It remains to find out where he started his journey.

Biography

Affleck Casey (photo is in the article) was born in 1975 in Falmouth (Massachusetts). His mother was a teacher, and his father changed many professions. He was a mechanic, pharmacist, social worker and even played on stage.

First Casey studied at the University of George Washington, but then moved to New York's Columbia University, where he studied astronomy, philosophy and physics. But he did not finish it, he decided to start acting career, like his famous elder brother, Ben Affleck.

A start

Apart from the popular television show "Saturday Night Live", the first film, which was filmed by Affleck Casey, was the "Lemon Sky" project (1988). After the mini-series "Kennedy from Massachusetts" (1990), he was invited to appear in the crime drama "Die in the Name" (1995) about the model Susan, ready for the most insidious actions for the sake of the career of the TV star. Then came the adventure film "In pursuit of the sun" (1996) with Halle Berry and James Belushi in the lead roles. And a year later, along with his brother appeared in the drama "Clever Will Hunting", telling a story about a brilliant guy from Boston.

When Morgan J. Freeman was going to make the film "The Grief of the Desert" (1998), he invited Casey Affleck to play the lead role, so that he played an academician, obsessed with roadside sights. Then came the proposal to star in the comedy "Madly Faithful Wife" (2000), and almost immediately - in the thriller "Immortal Souls" (2001) with Eliza Dushku.

In 2001, Affleck Casey starred in the thievish comedy "Eleven Ocean's Friends," and then found himself in the next two parts. In the crime drama "How the cowardly Robert Ford killed Jesse James" actor got the role of the cowardly Ford. And in the thriller "Farewell, baby, goodbye," he played one of the detectives investigating the kidnapping of a little girl.

Further more

Beginning in 2010, the career of the actor begins to gain momentum. Become better than the role that Casey Affleck gets. Films with his participation are more interesting. In the dramatic thriller "The Killer Within Me" (2010), he again plays a character named Ford, but not a coward, but a dangerous one. In the comedy "How to steal a skyscraper" (2011), the actor is part of Ben Stiller's team , which is going to return its retirement savings.

Together with Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway Casey Affleck appears in the science fiction drama Interstellar (2014). And a year after that - in the drama "Manchester by the Sea", for which he received three nominations for awards for the best male role. Among the latest works are films that were released in 2016: "And a storm struck" and "Three Nines." Admittedly, the shooting schedule of Afflek Jr. is still overloaded. After all, several other projects are being prepared for the release, where Casey Affleck will play the main role. Films with him, at least many of them, are worthy of those in which his older brother is removed. More details on some of them.

"Good-bye, baby, good-bye"

In the criminal drama of Ben Affleck, the actor played a private detective Patrick Kenzi, who with his partner undertakes a very confusing business. A four-year-old girl is kidnapped from one dysfunctional family. The police are idle, and then her aunt turns to the detectives.

They get down to business without much enthusiasm, because all around, except for relatives, believe that the child is already dead. But there are circumstances that make them take the search seriously. After all, at stake is now not only the life of a little girl, but also their own destinies.

"How to steal a skyscraper"

Josh Kovacs is a manager in a luxurious skyscraper. But his work is not so much in management as in meeting the needs of wealthy tenants. His day - and so an endless series of stresses, and then the owner of the skyscraper, Arthur Shaw, kidnapped pension savings of his staff. And now he is under house arrest.

Josh decides in any way to get his money back. Turning to an old friend, he collects a team of specialists in certain areas of activity. Their mission is almost impossible - to rob Arthur Shaw's apartment, guarded by FBI agents.

Manchester by the Sea

At one time this picture earned many awards. And most of them were Casey Affleck. Films, where the actor plays a dramatic character, have always been judged well. Lee Chandler once long ago left his home and now works as a mechanic in Boston. He is a closed and unsociable person, rarely leaves the apartment, and if he does, then only to the bar to wave a couple of glasses of local swill.

But one day his life changes. Lee receives news that his brother died of a heart attack. Now he will have to return to his native city. But not only to do funerals, but to fulfill the last request of a relative - take care of his underage son Patrick.

"And a storm struck"

In 1953, an American Bernard Webber served in the Coast Guard in the area of the American town of Chatham. It remains very short before he meets his girlfriend and makes her an offer. But the raging storm dramatically changes his plans.

On the shore, a signal is received that the Pendleton oil tanker is crashing nearby. The ship split in half and the crew does everything to keep their part afloat. The chief of the Coast Guard sends a rescue team, one of whose members becomes Bernard. The guys go to the crash site, although they are not sure whether they can go back.

Personal life

In 2006, Affleck Casey married Summer Phoenix, with whom he had lived for six years. Now they have two children - Augustus and Atticus. But the pair is not together. After ten years of marriage, they had problems in their relationships. They tried to save them with the help of a family consultant, but eventually parted friends.