River Phoenix

River Phoenix

River Jude Phoenix (né Bottom; August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American actor and musician. Phoenix grew up in an itinerant family, as the older brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, and Summer Phoenix. He had no formal schooling, but showed an instinctive talent for the guitar. He began his acting career at age 10 in television commercials. 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. 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, a gay hustler in search of his estranged mother. 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 died at age 23 from combined drug intoxication in West Hollywood in the early hours of Halloween, 1993, having overdosed on cocaine and heroin (a mixture commonly known as speedball) at The Viper Room. Description above from the Wikipedia article River Phoenix, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
    Known for
    Acting
    Place of birth
    Metolius, Oregon USA
    Birthday
    8/23/1970
My Own Private Idaho
My Own Private Idaho
7.1
The Thing Called Love
The Thing Called Love
6.3
Dogfight
Dogfight
6.9
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
5
My Own Private River
My Own Private River
7.7
The Making of ‘My Own Private Idaho’
The Making of ‘My Own Private Idaho’
4.2
Dark Blood
Dark Blood
6.053
The Phoenix Portal
The Phoenix Portal
0
This Road Will Never End
This Road Will Never End
0
Stand by Me
Stand by Me
7.854
Little Nikita
Little Nikita
5.9
Explorers
Explorers
6.193
Running on Empty
Running on Empty
7.488
Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia
Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia
8
Flea Master Session
Flea Master Session
0
The Mosquito Coast
The Mosquito Coast
6.358
Silent Tongue
Silent Tongue
4.813
Circle of Violence: A Family Drama
Circle of Violence: A Family Drama
7
I Love You to Death
I Love You to Death
6.397
Sneakers
Sneakers
6.895
Truth or Dairy
Truth or Dairy
0
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
7.85
Surviving
Surviving
4.5
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
7.6
Showbiz Kids
Showbiz Kids
7
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