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In 1980, Phoenix began to fully pursue his career as an actor, making his first appearance on a TV show called Fantasy singing with his sister Rain. River and Rain were assigned immediately to a show called Real Kids as audience warm-up performers. Phoenix started doing commercials for Mitsubishi, Ocean Spray, and Saks Fifth Avenue, and soon afterward he and the other children were signed by Paramount Pictures casting director Penny Marshall. Talent agent Iris Burton spotted River, Joaquin, and their sisters Summer and Rain singing for spare change in Westwood, Los Angeles, and was so charmed by the family that she soon represented the four siblings. Acting career 1980–1985: Early work and acting backgroundīack in the United States, Arlyn began working as a secretary for an NBC broadcaster and John as an exteriors architect. I mean, he could read and write, and he had an appetite for it, but he had no deep roots into any kind of sense of history or literature." George Sluizer claimed Phoenix was dyslexic. Screenwriter Naomi Foner later commented, "He was totally, totally without education. Phoenix has stated that they lived in a "desperate situation." Phoenix often played guitar while he and his sister sang on street corners for money and food to support their ever-growing family. Phoenix's family moved cross country when he was very young. They married on September 13, 1969, less than a year after meeting. While hitchhiking in California she met John Lee Bottom. In 1968, Phoenix's mother travelled across the United States. His father was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California, of English, German, and French ancestry. His mother was born in New York to Jewish parents whose families had emigrated from Russia and Hungary. In an interview with People, Phoenix described his parents as " hippieish". Phoenix's parents named him after the river of life from the Hermann Hesse novel Siddhartha, and he received his middle name from the Beatles' song " Hey Jude". He has four younger siblings, Rain (born 1972), Joaquin (born 1974), Liberty (born 1976) and Summer (born 1978), as well as a paternal half-sister, Jodean (born 1964). Phoenix was born on August 23, 1970, in Madras, Oregon, the first child of Arlyn Dunetz and John Lee Bottom. 1986–1993: Critical success in Stand by Me, Running on Empty, My Own Private Idaho.1980–1985: Early work and acting background.For his performance in the latter, Phoenix garnered enormous praise and won a Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 1991 Venice Film Festival as well as Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor, becoming the second-youngest winner of the former. Phoenix made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with Running on Empty (1988), playing Danny Pope, the son of fugitive parents in a well-received performance that earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (at age 18, he became the sixth-youngest nominee in the category), and My Own Private Idaho (1991), playing Michael Waters. He starred in the science fiction adventure film Explorers (1985) and had his first notable role in 1986's Stand by Me, a coming-of-age film based on the novella The Body by Stephen King. He began his acting career at age 10 in television commercials.
He had no formal schooling, but showed an instinctive talent for the guitar. Phoenix grew up in an itinerant family, as the older brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, and Summer Phoenix. River Jude Phoenix ( né Bottom Aug– October 31, 1993) was an American actor and musician.
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