Summer Phoenix
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Summer Phoenix (born Summer Joy Bottom,<ref>Furek, Maxim W. (2008). The Death Proclamation of Generation X: A Self-Fulfilling Prophesy of Goth, Grunge and Heroin. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse. pp. 72–73. Template:ISBN.</ref> December 10, 1978<ref>Template:Cite news See also:
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Early lifeEdit
Phoenix's mother, Arlyn Sharon (née Dunetz), was born in New York, to Jewish parents of Hungarian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent.<ref name="jjournal" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her father, John Lee Bottom, was from California and has English, German, and French ancestry.<ref name="jjournal">Template:Cite news</ref>
CareerEdit
Phoenix was a child actor, working with agent Iris Burton along with her brothers and sister at the age of two,Template:Citation needed and went on to have guest roles in Murder, She Wrote, Growing Pains (as a not-very-close friend of Ben Seaver), 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.Template:Citation needed
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.Template:Citation needed
Personal lifeEdit
She became engaged to Casey Affleck on December 25, 2003, and gave birth to a son in Amsterdam.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Phoenix and Affleck married on June 3, 2006, in Savannah, Georgia<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and had a second son.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In March 2016, Affleck and Phoenix publicly announced they were separating,<ref name=separation>Template:Cite news</ref> though it has been acknowledged that they separated in November 2015.<ref name=o[ppav /> Phoenix filed a petition of divorce with the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles on August 1, 2017, citing "irreconcilable differences,"<ref name=o[ppav>Template:Cite news</ref> and it was finalized three days later.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2003, she and friends Odessa Whitmire and Ruby Canner opened the vintage clothing boutique Some Odd Rubies on Manhattan's Lower East Side.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It closed in 2012.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Phoenix is vegan.<ref>Summer Phoenix: Coping with Hollywood | Film | The Observer</ref>
FilmographyEdit
| Film | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1987 | Russkies | Candi | |
| 1997 | Arresting Gena | Jane Freeman | |
| 1998 | I Woke Up Early The Day I Died | Bartender#2 / Girl at the Beach | |
| Girl | Rebecca Fernhurst | ||
| Can't Hardly Wait | Candy | Scenes deleted | |
| SLC Punk! | Brandy | ||
| The Faculty | F'%# You Girl | ||
| 2000 | Committed | Meg | |
| Esther Kahn | Esther Kahn | ||
| Dinner Rush | Marti Wellington | ||
| 2001 | The Believer | Carla Moebius | |
| 2002 | The Laramie Project | Jen Malmskog | |
| 2004 | Suzie Gold | Suzie Gold | |
| 2016 | Two for One | Samantha | |
| 2017 | Across My Land | Short film | |
| The Mad Whale | Beatrice Price | ||
| The First | Vesta Tilley | ||
| 2018 | Tiny Little Life | Short film | |
| 2019 | Skin | Lucy | Short film |
| 2022 | What Comes Around | Beth | |
| TBA | Mary Pickford: Love Wild | Vesta Tilley | Post-production |
| Television | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1984 | Airwolf | Little Girl | Season 2 episode 9: "Flight #093 Is Missing" |
| Murder, She Wrote | Cindy Donovan | Season 1 episode 7: "We're Off to Kill the Wizard" | |
| 1986 | Taking It Home | Frannie | TV movie |
| Kate's Secret | Becky Stark | TV movie | |
| 1987 | Growing Pains | Jody | Season 3 episode 6: "Big Brother's Not Watching" |
| 1988 | ABC Weekend Special | Lana | Season 11 episode 3: "Runaway Ralph" |
| 1989 | The New Leave It to Beaver | Bettie Haskell | Season 4 episode 14: "Still the New Leave It to Beaver" |
| 1990 | Swamp Thing | Lilly | Season 1 episode 10: "New Acquaintance" |
| 1997 | ER | Petra | Season 4 episode 1: "Ambush" |
| 2002 | Wasted | Samantha | TV movie |
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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