Casey Affleck is a popular American actor, director, and animal rights activist. He happens to be the younger brother of successful actor Ben Affleck. Casey is known for taking up unconventional roles, so unconventional that many Hollywood A-list stars would hesitate to portray such roles. He started his career in the late-80s with the TV movie ‘Lemon Sky’ and gained mainstream Hollywood popularity with his 1995 film ‘To Die For.’ Thanks to his impressive performance in the movie, he became one of the favorite actors of ‘To Die For’ director Gus Van Sant, who prophesied Casey to be the next big thing in Hollywood and went on to cast him in back-to-back films. Subsequently, Casey started landing more prominent roles. But unlike most of his contemporaries, he chose his roles with caution, which resulted in him being termed as perfectionist. His hard work paid off, and he was nominated for an ‘Academy Award’ for ‘Best Supporting Actor’ for the 2007 film ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.’ His career was then dominated by respect-worthy roles in some critically successful films, such as ‘Gone Baby Gone,’ ‘I’m Still Here,’ and ‘The Killer Inside Me.’ The biggest turning point of his career came with the release of ‘Manchester by the Sea.’ For his role of a grief-stricken man in the film, Casey swept almost every major acting award that year, from an ‘Oscar’ to ‘Golden Globe.’