{"id":3968,"date":"2026-07-24T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/chris-affleck-mother-of-oscar-winners-ben-and-casey-affleck-dies-at-83\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:41:09","slug":"chris-affleck-mother-of-oscar-winners-ben-and-casey-affleck-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/chris-affleck-mother-of-oscar-winners-ben-and-casey-affleck-dies-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Affleck, Mom of Oscar Winners Ben and Casey Affleck, Dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tChris Anne Affleck, the mom of Oscar winners Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck, died June 2, her household introduced. She was 83 and identified with pancreatic most cancers in December.<\/p>\n

\n\tChristine Anne Boldt\u00a0was born in New York Metropolis in December 1942. She was a graduate of Harvard College and spent 35 years as a public college instructor. She retired in 2008 and was a fierce civil rights advocate all through her life, having served as one of many authentic freedom riders who went into the Deep South in the course of the Sixties.<\/p>\n

\n\tChris and her ex-husband Timothy Affleck welcomed their first little one, Ben, in 1972. Ben\u2019s brother, Casey, was born in 1975, across the time their household relocated to Massachusetts, the place she continued her instructing profession.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy mom taught public college, went to Harvard after which obtained her grasp\u2019s there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public college,\u201d Ben advised The Hollywood Reporter in 2012. \u201cMy dad had a extra working-class life-style. He didn\u2019t go to school. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBy the point Ben was 12, his dad and mom divorced. As his ardour for leisure grew throughout his adolescence, Chris performed a hand in his early trade beginnings, connecting her son along with her former Harvard roommate, casting director Patty Collins, who helped him audition for commercials and TV films. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tFrom left: Chris Affleck, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and his mom, Nancy Carlson-Paige, on the seventieth Academy Awards. <\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJim Smeal\/Ron Galella Assortment through Getty Photographs<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tShe was an avid supporter of her sons\u2019 appearing careers and attended the 1998 Oscars alongside Ben and Matt Damon, who additionally introduced his mom as his date, after the pair have been nominated for greatest authentic screenplay for Good Will Searching \u2014 a movie the duo additionally starred in alongside Casey. Ben and Damon would go on to win the Oscar, and the movie has turn into a basic.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe have been sitting subsequent to our mothers and we received, and we sort of hugged our mothers. I bear in mind how everybody had made such a giant factor out of it as if this was such a novelty,\u201d Ben advised\u00a0Vainness Truthful of the second. \u201cI bear in mind pondering, being insecure, like, \u2018Why? Why is it bizarre that we\u2019re bringing our mothers?\u2019 Who else do you assume we might deliver?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tCasey Affleck and his mother attended the \u2018Dedicated\u2019 premiere in April 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRon Galella, Ltd.\/Ron Galella Assortment through Getty Photographs<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tBen would go on to win his second Oscar, for greatest image, for Argo in 2012. Casey would win the very best actor Oscar in 2017 for his efficiency in Kenneth Lonergan\u2019s Manchester by the Sea.<\/p>\n

Chris was given six months to stay in December, and her best want after her analysis was seeing grandson Atticus graduate highschool, her household stated. She attended the occasion along with her household on Could 31 and died peacefully in her sleep two days later.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlong with her sons, survivors embody her 5 grandchildren: Casey\u2019s children, Atticus and Indiana, and Ben\u2019s children, Violet, Fin and Sam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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