Casey Affleck and wife Summer Phoenix are set to welcome their second baby in the family. Actress Phoenix is expected to deliver the baby somewhere near this winter.
Phoenix and Affleck dated for six long years and got engaged in 2003. However they wedded some three years later in 2006, after the birth of their son, Indiana August, who is now 3-year-old.
‘Happy and excited’ couple revealed the news of one more addition to the family on September 7, at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Both Affleck, 32, and Phoenix happen to be associated with notable Hollywood stars as Casey is the younger brother of actor Ben Affleck and Phoenix is Joaquin Phoenix and late River Phoenix’s sister.
Affleck will be seen with Brad Pitt in the forthcoming film “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.” He has also been a part in films like “Ocean’s Eleven” and its sequels, and 1997’s “Good Will Hunting”. Being a pure vegetarian he is associated with animal rights movement and campaigns for PETA and Farm Sanctuary.
Phoenix has appeared in a guest roles in television shows like on the ER, Growing Pain and Murder.