Summer Phoenix

Summer Joy Phoenix (born December 10, 1978) is an American actress and model. She is the youngest sibling of the late River Phoenix, Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, and Liberty Phoenix, and is married to Casey Affleck.

Career

Phoenix was a child actor, securing an agent along with her brothers and sisters at the age of two, and went on to have guest spots in Murder She Wrote, Growing Pains and Airwolf. She appeared in the TV movie Kate's Secret and in Russkies, playing the younger sister of real life brother Joaquin. Phoenix appeared in Wasted, The Laramie Project, SLC Punk!, Dinner Rush, The Believer, and The Faculty. She played leads in Esther Kahn (2000) and Suzie Gold (2004).

In 2002, Phoenix starred in a three-month run of This is Our Youth at the Garrick Theatre alongside Matt Damon and Casey Affleck.

She was a member of the rock band The Causey Way with her sister Rain.

Personal life

Summer Phoenix was born in Winter Park, Florida. Her mother, Arlyn Sharon (née Dunetz), was born in the Bronx, New York to Jewish parents from Hungary and Russia.^[1][2][3][4] Her father, John Lee Bottom, was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California.^[1] In 1968, Phoenix's mother left her family and moved to California, meeting Phoenix's father while hitch-hiking. They married in 1969 and joined the religious cult the Children of God, working as missionaries and fruit pickers in South America. Phoenix has four siblings: two brothers, actors Joaquin and the late River, and two sisters, Rain and Liberty.

She attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, but left before graduating to pursue a career in film.

Summer Phoenix is a vegan and she is an avid supporter of several environmental and animal rights causes and charities, including PETA.

She became engaged to Casey Affleck on December 25, 2003, and gave birth to a son, Indiana August, on May 31, 2004, in Amsterdam. Phoenix and Affleck married on June 3, 2006 in Savannah, Georgia, and had a second son, Atticus,^[5] on January 12 2008.^[6]

She now owns and runs the vintage clothing boutiques "Some Odd Rubies", with stores in New York and Los Angeles, along with friends Odessa Whitmire and Ruby Canner.^[7]

Filmography

• Kate's Secret (1986) (TV), Becky Stark
• Russkies (1987), Candi
• Runaway Ralph (1988) (TV)
• Arresting Gena (1997), Jane Freeman
• Girl (1998), Rebecca Fernhurst
• Can't Hardly Wait (1998), Candy, Stoned Girl's Friend - Scenes deleted
• I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998), Bartender#2/Girl at the Beach
• SLC Punk! (1998), Brandy
• The Faculty (1998), Fuck You Girl^{[citation needed]}
• Committed (2000), Meg
• Esther Kahn (2000), Esther Kahn
• Dinner Rush (2000), Marti Wellington
• The Believer (2001), Carla Moebius
• The Laramie Project (2002), Jen Malmskog
• Wasted (2002) (TV), Samantha
• Suzie Gold (2004), Suzie Gold

References

External links

• Summer Phoenix at the Internet Movie Database
• Some Odd Rubies