Summer Phoenix

Summer Joy Phoenix (born Summer Joy Bottom; December 10, 1978) is an American actress, model and designer. She is the youngest sibling of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, and the late River Phoenix and married to actor Casey Affleck.
==Early life==
Phoenix was born in Winter Park, Florida. Her mother, Arlyn Sharon (née Dunetz), was born in The Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents from Hungary and Russia.Summer Phoenix : articles (part 1) FOXNews.com - 'Walk the Line' Star Won't Campaign for Oscar - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And EntertainmentTen American showbiz celebrities of Russian descent - Pravda.Ru Her father, John Lee Bottom, was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California.JewishJournal.com In 1968, Phoenix's mother left The Bronx 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.Summer Phoenix: Coping with Hollywood | Film | The Observer 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. Phoenix and Affleck married on June 3, 2006 in Savannah, Georgia, and had a second son, Atticus, on January 12, 2008. In March 2016, Affleck and Phoenix announced they were separating.
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.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Role 	Notes
1984	Airwolf 	Little Girl 	1 episode; 'Flight #093 Is Missing'
1984	Murder, She Wrote 	Cindy Donovan 	1 episode; 'We're Off to Kill the Wizard'
1986	Kate's Secret 	Becky Stark 	
1987	Growing Pains 	Jody 	1 episode 'Big Brother's Not Watching'
1987	Russkies 	Candi 	
1988	ABC Weekend Special 	Lana 	1 episode 'Runaway Ralph'
1989	The New Leave It to Beaver 	Bettie Haskell 	1 episode; 'Still the New Leave It to Beaver'
1990	Swamp Thing 	Lilly 	1 episode; 'New acquaintance'
1997	Arresting Gena 	Jane Freeman 	US title: Made in France
1997	ER 	Petra 	1 episode; 'Ambush'
1998	I Woke Up Early The Day I Died	Bartender#2/Girl at the Beach	
1998	Girl 	Rebecca Fernhurst 	
1998	Can't Hardly Wait 	Candy, Stoned Girl's Friend 	Scenes deleted
1998	SLC Punk! 	Brandy 	
1998	The Faculty 	F'%# You Girl 	
2000	Committed 	Meg 	
2000	Esther Kahn 	Esther Kahn 	
2000	Dinner Rush 	Marti Wellington 	
2001	The Believer 	Carla Moebius 	
2002	Wasted 	Samantha 	TV movie
2002	The Laramie Project 	Jen Malmskog 	
2004	Suzie Gold 	Suzie Gold 	
2005	Jungle Junction Movie 	Other Voice 	
2009	Jungle Junction 2 	Other Voice 	
2016	Two for One 	Samantha 	
2017	Across My Land 	 	Short film, post-production
2017	The Mad Whale 	Beatrice Price 	In post-production
2017	The First 	Vesta Tilley 	In post-production
==References==
==External links==
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* Some Odd Rubies 
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