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Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck’s mom has died following a battle with cancer.
According to an obituary printed in The Boston Globe on Friday, Christopher Anne Affleck, died peacefully in her sleep on June 2 at the age of 83.
The Hollywood Reporter reported she was recognized with pancreatic cancer in December 2025, and was given six months to reside.
“Her greatest wish after her diagnosis, however, was to live to see her grandson graduate high school,” the obituary reads. “She did so, attending with her family on May 31, 2026. She died peacefully, in her sleep, two days later.”
Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck’s mom, Chris, died at the age of 83 in June. (Bill Brett/The Boston Globe by way of Getty Images)
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Born in 1942 in New York City, Chris proved to be an excellent activist, educating “literacy classes in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, marched against the Vietnam War, and reveled in 1960s counterculture.”
She went on to develop into “one of the first Radcliffe women” to graduate from Harvard, and spent 35 years as a public faculty trainer.
“Every student, whether just arrived from Haiti or Cambridge upper crust, was a cherished citizen of her classroom republic, equal to each other and to herself,” the obituary states.
After working as a trainer for over three a long time, Chris retired in 2008, spending time volunteering for President Barack Obama throughout his marketing campaign, touring to Israel/Palestine and changing into an organizer for the Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine.
Chris welcomed Ben in 1972 and Casey in 1975 together with her ex-husband, Timothy Affleck. (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection by way of Getty Images)
Chris welcomed Ben in 1972 and Casey in 1975, together with her ex-husband, Timothy Affleck, earlier than they divorced in 1984.
Both Ben and Casey credit score their mother and father with instilling in them a love for the humanities at a younger age, with Casey telling Collider in 2013 that they “started out as children doing this” partly as a result of their “father was in the theater and our mother took us to the theater all the time.”
“I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom’s was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark,” Ben instructed Parade in October 2007. “I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.”
Ben later had his massive break when he gained the Academy Award for greatest authentic screenplay in 1998, alongside Matt Damon, for his or her work writing “Good Will Hunting.”
Ben and Casey credit score their mother and father for instilling a love of artwork in them from a younger age. (BG004/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
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Both Ben and Damon introduced their moms with them as their plus-ones for the large ceremony.
“We were sitting next to our moms, and we won, and we kind of hugged our moms. I remember how everyone had made such a big thing out of it as if this was such a novelty,” Ben instructed Vanity Fair in April 2023. “I remember thinking, being insecure, like, ‘Why? Why is it weird that we’re bringing our moms?’ Who else do you think we would bring?”
He continued, “There was nobody else that was going to go. That was it. Of course, our moms were gonna go. That was really innocent and not faked.”
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Ben Affleck could not perceive why others had been confused about why he introduced his mom as his plus one to the Oscars. (Ke.Mazur/WireImage)
In addition to her two sons, Chris is survived by her five grandchildren: Casey’s two kids, Indiana and Atticus, and Ben’s three kids, Violet, Fin and Sam.
