Chris Ann Affleck, the mother of famous actors Ben and Casey Affleck, has died, according to a press release. Obituary published online. The former school teacher was 83 years old.
According to the obituary published this week, Chris Affleck was born in New York City in 1942 and died in early June 2026.
She was given “six months to live” in December 2025, and attended her grandson’s high school graduation before her death, according to the memorial. The obituary did not mention her diagnosis or cause of death.
FILE – Actor Ben Affleck and his mother Chris Boldt attend the 70th Annual Academy Awards hosted by Miramax Films on March 22, 1998 in Beverly Hills, California.
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The mother of Hollywood actors attended the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York and “made the most of an elite education while remaining skeptical of the tightly segregated world he represented,” according to the obituary.
Chris Affleck graduated from Harvard University, worked as a public school teacher, and taught literacy classes in Mississippi, the obituary said.
She is survived by her two sons, Ben and Casey, by five grandchildren: Indiana, Violet, Atticus, Finn, and Sam.
According to the obituary, Chris Affleck pursued a life of political and social activism, volunteering for the Obama campaign, organizing with the Coalition for Water Justice in Palestine and helping to found the Sustainable Cape Project in Massachusetts.
Ben Affleck famously brought it Or the Oscars? With him in 1998 alongside Matt Damon and his mother.
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