By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2026-07-24 05:08:53 | Updated at 2026-07-27 18:12:56
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Chris Anne Affleck, the mother of Ben and Casey Affleck, has died at the age of 82 from pancreatic cancer.
Chris Anne's family revealed the sad news Thursday following her passing on June 2, according to a Legacy obituary.
The matriarch of the family is survived by sons Ben and Casey; and five grandkids Indiana, Violet, Atticus, Fin and Sam.
According to her obit, she had been told by doctors she had six months to live last December, and her final wish was to see her grandson's high school graduation.
She attended the ceremony this past May 31, and died while sleeping just two days later.
The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck for further comment on the story.
Chris Anne Affleck, the mother of Ben and Casey Affleck, has died at the age of 82 from pancreatic cancer. Pictured 2014 in LA with Ben
The actor and his mother were pictured at an Academy Awards party in 1998
Chris Anne had been born in December of 1942 in New York City. She graduated from Harvard University and taught public school for 35 years prior to her retirement in 2008.
Ben, speaking with The Hollywood Reporter in 2012 about his mother, said, 'My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master’s there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school.'
She was a staunch advocate for civil rights, and had traveled to the South in the 1960s during a time of social change, according to her obituary.
Chris Anne 'taught literacy classes in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, marched against the Vietnam War, and reveled in 1960s counterculture,' her obituary stated.
She carried these values into the classroom, the obit stated, as '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.
Chris Anne and ex-husband Timothy Affleck welcomed Ben in 1972 and Casey in 1975.
In the mid-1970s, they moved to Massachusetts, as Chris Anne taught there.
