{"id":15907,"date":"2026-07-24T17:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=15907"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:18:37","slug":"ben-affleck-casey-afflecks-mom-chris-affleck-dead-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=15907","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck\u2019s Mom Chris Affleck Dead at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>Growing up, the Affleck home centered around many lively discussions that took place amongst loved ones, as childhood friend <strong>Matt Damon<\/strong> could attest to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat dinner table was one of the funnest places to be growing up because of all the debates that went on\u2014on any subject,\u201d Damon told the outlet. \u201cYou had to craft an argument and a good one to survive. Ben really honed his debating skills there. He\u2019s not a guy you want to get in a debate with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward decades later, and both Ben and Casey each built their up their acting careers, respectively. In 2013, Ben received an honorary degree from Brown University, and used the opportunity to thank one of his greatest inspirations, his mom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means a lot to her,\u201d he said <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/celebrity\/ben-affleck-honorary-degree-ben-affleck-matt-damon-affleck-brown-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">during his speech<\/a>, while dedicating his degree to Chris. \u201cShe never got to see me graduate from any higher education at all. So, Mom, this is for you. I love you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to her passing, according to her obituary, Chris\u2019 greatest wish after her diagnosis, was to live to see her grandson Atticus graduate high school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe did so, attending with her family on May 31, 2026,\u201d her obituary concluded. \u201cShe died peacefully, in her sleep, two days later.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, the Affleck home centered around many lively discussions that took place amongst loved ones, as childhood friend Matt Damon could attest to. \u201cThat dinner table was one of the funnest places to be growing up because of all the debates that went on\u2014on any subject,\u201d Damon told the outlet. \u201cYou had to craft&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260724\/85aa6720-1608-4a34-b8a1-52f3f60b0ac7_1784892609.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}