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Summer Phoenix
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Phoenix in 2011
Born
Summer Joy Bottom

(1978-12-10) December 10, 1978 (age 45)
Winter Park, Florida, U.S.
Alma mater Tisch School of the Arts
Occupations
  • Actress
  • musician
Years active1984–2004
2016–present
Known for The Believer
Swamp Thing
The Faculty
Esther Kahn
SLC Punk!
Spouse
​
​
(m. 2006;div. 2017)​
Children2
Parent
Relatives River Phoenix (brother)
Rain Phoenix (sister)
Joaquin Phoenix (brother)
Liberty Phoenix (sister)

Summer Phoenix (born Summer Joy Bottom; [1] December 10, 1978 [2] ) is an American actress. She is the youngest sibling of actors River Phoenix, Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, and Liberty Phoenix.[ citation needed ]

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Early life

Phoenix's mother, Arlyn Sharon (née Dunetz), was born in New York, to Jewish parents of Hungarian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Her father, John Lee Bottom, was from California and has English, German, and French ancestry. [3]

Career

Phoenix was a child actor, working with agent Iris Burton along with her brothers and sister at the age of two,[ citation needed ] and went on to have guest roles in Murder, She Wrote , Growing Pains , SwampThing, 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.[ 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.[ citation needed ]

Personal life

She became engaged to Casey Affleck on December 25, 2003, and gave birth to a son in Amsterdam. [8] Phoenix and Affleck married on June 3, 2006, in Savannah, Georgia [9] and had a second son. [10] [11] [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 filed a petition of divorce with the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles on August 1, 2017, citing "irreconcilable differences", [14] and it was finalized that year. [15]

In 2003, she and friends Odessa Whitmire and Ruby Canner opened the vintage clothing boutique Some Odd Rubies on Manhattan's Lower East Side. [16] [17] It closed in 2012. [18]

Phoenix is vegan. [19]

Filmography

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
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 CandyScenes 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
2017Across My LandShort film
The Mad Whale Beatrice Price
The FirstVesta Tilley
2018Tiny Little LifeShort film
2019SkinLucyShort film
2022 What Comes Around Beth
TBAMary Pickford: Love WildVesta TilleyPost-production
Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1984 Airwolf Little GirlSeason 2 episode 9: "Flight #093 Is Missing"
Murder, She Wrote Cindy DonovanSeason 1 episode 7: "We're Off to Kill the Wizard"
1986Taking It HomeFrannieTV movie
Kate's Secret Becky StarkTV movie
1987 Growing Pains JodySeason 3 episode 6: "Big Brother's Not Watching"
1988 ABC Weekend Special LanaSeason 11 episode 3: "Runaway Ralph"
1989 The New Leave It to Beaver Bettie HaskellSeason 4 episode 14: "Still the New Leave It to Beaver"
1990 Swamp Thing LillySeason 1 episode 10: "New Acquaintance"
1997 ER PetraSeason 4 episode 1: "Ambush"
2002WastedSamanthaTV movie

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