Summer Phoenix (born Summer Joy Bottom, December 10, 1978 ) is an American actress. She is the youngest sibling of actors

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, Joaquin, and Liberty Phoenix.

Early life

Phoenix's mother, Arlyn Sharon (

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Dunetz), was born in New York, to Jewish parents of Hungarian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent. Her father, John Lee Bottom, was from

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and has English, German, and French ancestry.

Career

Phoenix was a

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, working with agent Iris Burton along with her brothers and sister at the age of two, and went on to have guest roles in ''

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'', '' 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 ''

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''. 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

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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

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. Phoenix and Affleck married on June 3, 2006, in

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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 three days later. 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.Summer Phoenix: Coping with Hollywood , Film , The Observer
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Filmography

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