Summer Phoenix

Summer Phoenix
Phoenix in 2011
Born Summer Joy Bottom
(1978-12-10) December 10, 1978
Winter Park, Florida, U.S.
Occupation Actress, model, designer
Years active 1984–2004;
2016–present
Spouse(s)
Casey Affleck
(m. 2006; div. 2017)
Children 2
Parent(s) Arlyn Phoenix
John Lee Bottom
Family River Phoenix (brother)
Rain Phoenix (sister)
Joaquin Phoenix (brother)
Liberty Phoenix (sister)

Summer Joy Phoenix (née Bottom; born December 10, 1978)[1] is an American actress, model and designer. She is the youngest sibling of actors/actresses River Phoenix, Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, and Liberty Phoenix.

Early life

Phoenix was born in Winter Park, Florida.[1] Her mother, Arlyn Sharon (née Dunetz), was born in The Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents from Hungary and Russia.[2][3][4][5][6] Her father, John Lee Bottom, was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California.[2] 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 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.[1]

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.[7]

She became engaged to Casey Affleck on December 25, 2003 and gave birth to a son, Indiana August, on May 31, 2004 in Amsterdam.[8] Phoenix and Affleck married on June 3, 2006 in Savannah, Georgia [9] and had second son Atticus[10][11] on January 12, 2008.[12] In March 2016, Affleck and Phoenix publicly announced they were separating,[13] though it has been acknowledged that they separated in November 2015.[14] Phoenix officially filed a petition of divorce with the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles on August 1, 2017, citing "irreconcilable differences."[14]

In 2003, she and friends Odessa Whitmire and Ruby Canner opened the vintage clothing boutique Some Odd Rubies on Manhattan's Lower East Side.[15][16] It closed in 2012.[17]

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Summer Phoenix a.k.a. Summer Joy Phoenix". NNDB. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  2. 1 2 Pfefferman, Naomi (April 11, 2002). "The Days of Summer". Jewish Journal. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  3. ↑ Nicklaus, Olivier (May 23–29, 2000). "Summer Phoenix". Les Inrockuptibles (244). Archived from the original on July 15, 2006. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  4. ↑ Friedman, Roger (October 24, 2005). "'Walk the Line' Star Won't Campaign for Oscar". Fox News. Retrieved June 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Ten American showbiz celebrities of Russian descent". PravdaReport.com. November 18, 2005.
  6. ↑ Corner, Lena (July 9, 2011). "Rain Phoenix's unusual childhood". The Guardian. Retrieved June 18, 2018.
  7. ↑ Summer Phoenix: Coping with Hollywood | Film | The Observer
  8. ↑ Garratt, Sheryl (May 30, 2008). "Casey Affleck's time to shine". The Telegraph. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Casey Affleck, Summer Phoenix Wed". People.com. June 5, 2006. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  10. ↑ Jones, Alison (June 5, 2008). "Affleck brothers strike gold on the silver screen". The Birmingham Post. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Update: Casey Affleck and Summer Phoenix welcome second son, Atticus". People.com. June 6, 2008. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  12. ↑ Rutter, Claire (August 1, 2017). "Casey Affleck and Summer Phoenix make split official filing for divorce". Metro. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
  13. ↑ Agard, Chancellor (March 16, 2016). "Casey Affleck & Summer Phoenix Split: Inside Their 10-Year Marriage". People. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  14. 1 2 "Summer Phoenix files for divorce from husband Casey Affleck". USA Today. August 1, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  15. ↑ "Store > Some Odd Rubies". New York. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Some Odd Rubies". (official site). Archived from the original on April 23, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Ludlow Street Boutique Shuffle". BoweryBoogie.com. May 1, 2012. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015.
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