Joaquin Rafael Phoenix, additionally known as Leaf Phoenix, is a Puerto Rican-born American actor.
Phoenix's papa, John Lee Bottom, is of Irish as well as Spanish descent, his mom, Arlyn Sharon Dunetz, was birthed in The Bronx in New York to Jewish immigrants from Hungary and Russia. Soon after they satisfied was paired with the cult Children of God and began to travel around South America as missionaries. Joaquin Phoenix was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and lived there till he was 6 years old, he is fluent in Spanish.
Joaquin is the 3rd of five children, the others are River (1970-1993), Rain (likewise known as Rainbow Joan of Arc, birthed 1973), Liberty Butterfly (born 1976) and also Summer (additionally referred to as the Summer Joy, born 1978).
After leaving the cult and returned to the United States (after which they took the name Phoenix), motivated John as well as Arlyn Phoenix youngsters to create their imaginative capabilities. Because siblings had nature-related names, Joaquin altered his name to Leaf (leaf).
Phoenix's very first acting work was a guest duties in two television programs with his sibling River: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1982) as well as Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia (1984). He made his launching on the cinema in the Space Camp (1986), and got his very first leading function in Russkies (1987). In 2000 he obtained his development as the power-crazed Roman emperor Lucius Commodus in Ridley Scott's epic drama epic movie Gladiator. In 2004 he starred in the flick Ladder 49 that firefighter Jack Morrison. In 2005, he starred in the movie concerning Johnny Cash, "Walk the Line".
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