Summer Phoenix’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Actress
A.K.A. Summer Joy Phoenix
Is Actor 
Stage actor 
Television actor 
Model 
From United States of America 
Type Fashion 
Film, TV, Stage & Radio 
Gender female
Birth 10 December 1978, Winter Park, Orange County, Florida, U.S.A.
Age: 41 years
Family
Mother: Arlyn Phoenix
Siblings: River PhoenixJoaquin PhoenixBen AffleckLiberty PhoenixRain Phoenix
Spouse: Casey Affleck
Children: Atticus AffleckIndiana Affleck

Summer Joy Phoenix (born Summer Joy Bottom; December 10, 1978) is an American actress, model and designer. She is the youngest sibling of actors/actresses Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, and River Phoenix.

Early life

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. Her father, John Lee Bottom, was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California. In 1968, Phoenix’s mother left The Bronx and moved to California, meeting Phoenix’s father while hitchhiking. 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 (Leaf) 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.

Career

Phoenix was a child actor, working with agent Iris Burton along with her brothers and sister at the age of two, and went on to have guest roles in Murder, She Wrote, Growing Pains, Swamp Thing and Airwolf. She appeared in the TV movie Kate’s Secret and in Russkies, playing the younger sister of real-life brother Joaquin. Phoenix later 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. She later made guest appearances on albums by Rain’s band, the Papercranes.

Personal life

Phoenix is a vegan. 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 second son Atticus on December 14, 2007. In March 2016, Affleck and Phoenix publicly announced they were separating, though it has been acknowledged that they separated in November 2015. Phoenix officially filed a petition of divorce with the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles on August 1, 2017, citing “irreconcilable differences.”

In 2003, she and friends Odessa Whitmire and Ruby Canner opened the vintage clothing boutique Some Odd Rubies on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It closed in 2012.

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1984 Airwolf Little Girl 1 episode; ‘Flight #093 Is Missing’
1984 Murder, She Wrote Cindy Donovan 1 episode; ‘We’re Off to Kill the Wizard’
1986 Kate’s Secret Becky Stark
1987 Growing Pains Jody 1 episode ‘Big Brother’s Not Watching’
1987 Russkies Candi
1988 ABC Weekend Special Lana 1 episode ‘Runaway Ralph’
1989 The New Leave It to Beaver Bettie Haskell 1 episode; ‘Still the New Leave It to Beaver’
1990 Swamp Thing Lilly 1 episode; ‘New acquaintance’
1997 Arresting Gena Jane Freeman US title: Made in France
1997 ER Petra 1 episode; ‘Ambush’
1998 I Woke Up Early The Day I Died Bartender#2/Girl at the Beach
1998 Girl Rebecca Fernhurst
1998 Can’t Hardly Wait Candy, Stoned Girl’s Friend Scenes deleted
1998 SLC Punk! Brandy
1998 The Faculty F’%# You Girl
2000 Committed Meg
2000 Esther Kahn Esther Kahn
2000 Dinner Rush Marti Wellington
2001 The Believer Carla Moebius
2002 Wasted Samantha TV movie
2002 The Laramie Project Jen Malmskog
2004 Suzie Gold Suzie Gold
2016 Two for One Samantha
2017 Across My Land Short film, post-production
2017 The Mad Whale Beatrice Price In post-production
2017 The First Vesta Tilley In post-production
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