Summer Phoenix

Summer Phoenix
Born	Summer Joy Bottom (1978-12-10) December 10, 1978 Winter Park, Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Actress/Model
Years active	1984–2004 (actress)
Spouse(s)	Casey Affleck (2006–present)
Children	2
Parent(s)	Arlyn Phoenix John Lee Bottom
Relatives	Joaquin Phoenix (brother) River Phoenix (brother) Rain Phoenix (sister) Liberty Phoenix (sister)

Summer Phoenix (born Summer Joy Bottom; December 10, 1978) is an American actress and model. She is the youngest sibling of River Phoenix, Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, and Liberty Phoenix, and is married to actor Casey Affleck.

Early life

Phoenix was raised in Southern California, but spent her teen years in Central Florida, where she was born.^[1] Her mother, Arlyn Sharon (née Dunetz), was born in the Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents from Hungary and Russia.^[2][3][4][5] Her father, John Lee Bottom, was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California.^[2] In 1968, Phoenix's mother left her family and moved to California, meeting Phoenix's father while hitch-hiking. They married in 1969 and joined the religious cult the Children of God, working as missionaries and fruit pickers in South America. Phoenix has four siblings: two brothers, actors Joaquin (Leaf) and the late 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 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

Phoenix is a vegan.^[6] She is an avid supporter of several environmental and animal rights causes and charities, including PETA.

She became engaged to Casey Affleck on December 25, 2003, and gave birth to a son, Indiana August, on May 31, 2004, in Amsterdam.^[7] Phoenix and Affleck married on June 3, 2006 in Savannah, Georgia,^[8] and had a second son, Atticus,^[9][10] on January 12, 2008.^[11]

She now owns and runs the vintage clothing boutiques Some Odd Rubies, with stores in New York and Los Angeles, along with friends Odessa Whitmire and Ruby Canner.^[12]

Filmography

References

External links

• Summer Phoenix at the Internet Movie Database
• Some Odd Rubies