Summer Phoenix

Summer Phoenix (born Summer Joy Bottom; December 10, 1978) is an American actress and model. She is the youngest sibling of the late River Phoenix, Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, and Liberty Phoenix, and is married to actor Casey Affleck.
==Early life==
Summer 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 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==
Summer 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 also makes guest appearances on the Papercranes albums, Rain's band.
==Personal life==
Summer Phoenix is a vegan and 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,Affleck brothers strike gold on the silver screen on January 12, 2008.Casey Affleck
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.Some Odd Rubies
==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 	Osnat 'Ossi' Wolf 	
2004	Suzie Gold 	Suzie Gold 	
==References==
==External links==
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* Some Odd Rubies
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