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Summer Phoenix
Phoenix in 2011
Born	Summer Joy Bottom 1977 or 1978 (age 46–47) Winter Park, Florida, U.S.
Alma mater	Tisch School of the Arts
Occupations	Actress musician
Years active	1984–2004 2016–present
Known for	The Believer Swamp Thing The Faculty Esther Kahn SLC Punk!
Spouse	Casey Affleck ​ ​(m. 2006; div. 2017)​
Children	2
Mother	Arlyn Phoenix
Relatives	River Phoenix (brother) Rain Phoenix (sister) Joaquin Phoenix (brother) Liberty Phoenix (sister)

Summer Joy Phoenix (née Bottom) is an American actress. She is the youngest sibling of actors River Phoenix, Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, and Liberty Phoenix.

Early life

Phoenix was born on December 10, 1978 in Winter Park, Florida. Her mother, Arlyn Sharon (née Dunetz), was born in New York, to Jewish parents of Hungarian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent. Her father, John Lee Bottom, was from California and has English, German, and French ancestry. In 1968, Phoenix's mother moved to California, meeting Phoenix's father while hitchhiking. They married in 1969 and years later joined the religious cult the Children of God, working as missionaries 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.

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

She became engaged to Casey Affleck on December 25, 2003, and gave birth to a son in Amsterdam. Phoenix and Affleck married on June 3, 2006, in Savannah, Georgia and had a second son. In March 2016, Affleck and Phoenix publicly announced they were separating, though it has been acknowledged that they separated in November 2015. Phoenix filed a petition of divorce with the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles on August 1, 2017, citing "irreconcilable differences", and it was finalized that year.

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.

Phoenix is vegan.

Filmography

References

1. "Casey Affleck Weds Summer Phoenix". CBS News. June 5, 2006. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
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. No. 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. Garratt, Sheryl (May 30, 2008). "Casey Affleck's time to shine". The Telegraph. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
8. "Casey Affleck, Summer Phoenix Wed". People.com. June 5, 2006. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
9. 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.
10. "Update: Casey Affleck and Summer Phoenix welcome second son, Atticus". People.com. June 6, 2008. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
11. Rutter, Claire (August 1, 2017). "Casey Affleck and Summer Phoenix make split official filing for divorce". Metro. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
12. Agard, Chancellor (March 16, 2016). "Casey Affleck & Summer Phoenix Split: Inside Their 10-Year Marriage". People. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
13. ^ "Summer Phoenix files for divorce from husband Casey Affleck". USA Today. August 1, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
14. Fisher, Kendall (August 4, 2017). "Casey Affleck Finalizes Divorce From Summer Phoenix". E! Online. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
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.
18. Summer Phoenix: Coping with Hollywood | Film | The Observer

External links

• Summer Phoenix at IMDb
• Some Odd Rubies
• Summer Phoenix at Rotten Tomatoes
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• 20th-century American actresses
• 21st-century American actresses
• Actresses from Florida
• American child actresses
• American film actresses
• American stage actresses
• American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
• American people of Russian-Jewish descent
• American people of German descent
• American people of English descent
• American people of French descent
• American television actresses
• Living people
• People from Winter Park, Florida
• Phoenix family
• Tisch School of the Arts alumni
• Jewish American actresses
• 20th-century American Jews
• 21st-century American Jews
• American Ashkenazi Jews