Biography
River Jude Phoenix (né Bottom; August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American actor and musician.
Phoenix grew up in an itinerant family, as the older brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, and Summer Phoenix. He had no formal schooling, but showed an instinctive talent for the guitar. He began his acting career at age 10 in television commercials. He starred in the science fiction adventure film Explorers (1985) and had his first notable role in 1986's Stand by Me, a coming-of-age film based on the novella The Body by Stephen King.
Phoenix made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with Running on Empty (1988), playing Danny Pope, the son of fugitive parents in a well-received performance that earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (at age 18, he became the sixth-youngest nominee in the category), and My Own Private Idaho (1991), playing Michael Waters, a gay hustler in search of his estranged mother. For his performance in the latter, Phoenix garnered enormous praise and won a Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 1991 Venice Film Festival as well as Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor, becoming the second-youngest winner of the former.
Phoenix died at age 23 from combined drug intoxication in West Hollywood in the early hours of Halloween, 1993, having overdosed on cocaine and heroin (a mixture commonly known as speedball) at The Viper Room.
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Filmography
all 35
Movies 28
self 8
TV Shows 7
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford (2023)
Showbiz Kids (2020)
Dark Blood (2012)
Too Young to Die (2012)
My Own Private River (2011)
The Making of ‘My Own Private Idaho’ (2005)
The Phoenix Portal (2005)
The Making of ‘Sneakers’ (2003)
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me (2000)
This Road Will Never End (1996)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Truth or Dairy (1994)
The Thing Called Love (1993)
Silent Tongue (1993)
Sneakers (1992)
Flea Master Session (1992)
Dogfight (1991)
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
I Love You to Death (1990)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Running on Empty (1988)
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)
Little Nikita (1988)
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Circle of Violence: A Family Drama (1986)
Stand by Me (1986)
Explorers (1985)
Surviving (1985)
Robert Kennedy & His Times (1985)
It's Your Move (1984)
Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia (1984)
Celebrity (1984)
Family Ties (1982)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1982)
Hotel (1982)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1970-08-23
Deathday1993-10-31 (23 years old)
Birth NameRiver Jude Bottom
Birth PlaceMadras, United States of America
LifestyleVegetarianism
Height
MotherArlyn Phoenix
SiblingsLiberty Phoenix, Jodean Bottom, Joaquin Phoenix, Summer Phoenix, Rain Phoenix
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesGainesville · San Juan · Crockett, United States of America
AwardsNational Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor, Volpi Cup, Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead
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