Joaquin Rafael Phoenix (born October 28, 1974) is an American actor, producer, and animal rights activist. Known for playing dark and unconventional characters in independent film, he is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, he was ranked 12th on the list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century by The New York Times.
Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Los Angeles and Florida, Phoenix began his career by appearing in television series in the early 1980s with his brother River. His first major film roles were in SpaceCamp (1986) and Parenthood (1989). During this period, he was credited as Leaf Phoenix, a name he gave himself. He took back his birth first name in the early 1990s and received critical acclaim for his supporting roles in the comedy-drama film To Die For (1995) and the period film Quills (2000). Phoenix received further critical acclaim and first Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his portrayal of the evil emperor Commodus in the historical drama film Gladiator (2000). He had success with the horror films Signs (2002) and The Village (2004), the historical drama Hotel Rwanda (2004) and won a Grammy, a Golden Globe and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of musician Johnny Cash in the biopic Walk the Line (2005). He continued to receive acclaim in two features with his frequent director James Gray; the action thriller We Own the Night (2007) and the romantic drama Two Lovers (2008), before taking a break from acting.
In the 2010s, Phoenix returned to acting to critical acclaim. He starred in the psychological drama The Master (2012), winning the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and earning his third Academy Award nomination. He received Golden Globe nominations for his roles in the romantic drama Her (2013) and the crime satire Inherent Vice (2014) and won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in the psychological thriller You Were Never Really Here (2017). Phoenix achieved international stardom and won an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a second Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of the title character in Joker (2019).
Phoenix is an animal rights activist. He has been vegan since the age of three and regularly supports charitable causes and has produced several documentaries on global meat consumption and its impact on the environment. He is in a relationship with actress Rooney Mara, with whom he has a son.
Joaquin Phoenix Biography / Wiki
| Name | Joaquin Phoenix |
| Also Know | Leaf Phoenix, Joaquin Rafael Bottom, è¯å …·馮力士, Хоакин ФеникÑ, วาคีน ฟินิà¸à¸‹à¹Œ, خواكين Ùينيكس, 호아킨 피닉스, ホアã‚ン・フェニックス, Хоакін ФенікÑ, Χοακίν Φίνιξ, æ°æ˜†Â·è²å°¼å…‹æ–¯, Joaquin Rafael Phoenix , חו×קין ×¤×™× ×™×§×¡, åŽé‡‘·è²å°¼å…‹æ–¯ |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Date of Birth | 1974-10-28 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 47 |
| Deathday |
Joaquin Phoenix Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Walk the Line | Johnny Cash | 2005-09-13 | A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash’s life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis… |
| We Own the Night | Robert ‘Bobby’ Green | 2007-10-09 | A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen…. |
| Two Lovers | Leonard | 2008-11-19 | A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women…. |
| Ladder 49 | Jack Morrison | 2004-10-01 | Under the watchful eye of his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire… |
| Earthlings | Narrator (voice) | 2005-09-24 | Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, Earthlings chronicles the day-to-day practices of the largest industries in the world, all of whic… |
| Reservation Road | Ethan Learner | 2007-09-13 | Two fathers’ lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other’s son dead. In respo… |
| Buffalo Soldiers | Ray Elwood | 2002-10-31 | A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall…. |
| Clay Pigeons | Clay Bidwell | 1998-09-25 | Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man’s wife… |
| Inventing the Abbotts | Doug Holt | 1997-04-04 | In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, love… |
| It’s All About Love | John | 2003-01-10 | The story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous i… |
| Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot | John Callahan | 2018-04-04 | On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing… |
| Russkies | Danny | 1987-11-06 | A group of American boys discovers a Russian sailor washed up on the coast of Florida and decide to befriend him, assuming that he is friendly and wil… |
| I’m Still Here | Joaquin Phoenix | 2010-09-10 | I’m Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the film follows the Oscar-nominee as… |
| The Master | Freddie Quell | 2012-09-07 | Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto th… |
| Her | Theodore Twombly | 2013-12-18 | In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user’s every needs. To Theod… |
| Irrational Man | Abe | 2015-07-17 | On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his st… |
| Inherent Vice | Larry “Doc” Sportello | 2014-12-12 | In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry “Doc” Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend…. |
| You Were Never Really Here | Joe | 2017-11-08 | A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, his nightmares overtake him as a… |
| Brother Bear | Kenai (voice) | 2003-10-23 | When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in another’s footsteps until he learns some valuable li… |
| Secret Witness | Drew Blackburn | 1988-09-08 | Fun turns serious for two kids when an innocent spying game forces them to do some real detective work…. |
| C’mon C’mon | Johnny | 2021-11-19 | Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they embark on a cross-country trip to see life away from Los Angel… |
| Joker | Arthur Fleck / Joker | 2019-10-01 | During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychop… |
| Napoleon | Napoleon Bonaparte | An original and personal look at Napoleon’s origins and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often vo… | |
| Disappointment Blvd. | Beau | An intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time…. | |
| Polaris | An original environmental horror period piece with elements of ancient horror…. | ||
| Joker: Folie à Deux | Arthur Fleck / Joker | 2024-10-03 | A sequel to the 2019 film Joker…. |
| Gladiator | Commodus | 2000-05-04 | In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army’s most capable and trusted… |
| Signs | Merrill Hess | 2002-08-02 | A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come…. |
| The Village | Lucius Hunt | 2004-07-30 | When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alte… |
| 8MM | Max California | 1999-02-26 | A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the he… |
| The Yards | Willie Gutierrez | 2000-10-20 | In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city’s subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. W… |
| The Immigrant | Bruno Weiss | 2013-11-27 | 1921 New York. An immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with … |
| Mary Magdalene | Jesus | 2018-03-15 | In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radi… |
| The Sisters Brothers | Charlie Sisters | 2018-09-19 | Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the… |
| The Untitled Rick Howard Project | 2014-05-13 | The making of Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’…. | |
| Dominion | Narrator (voice) | 2018-03-29 | Exposing the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture through drones, hidden & handheld cameras, the feature-length film explores the morality and… |
| Lou | Karl | 2018-09-08 | Lou, a teenage tomboy in a small Californian town, idolizes her single father. When he has a date over one night and she is cast out of the house, Lou… |
| To Die For | Jimmy Emmett | 1995-09-22 | Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she make… |
| Return to Paradise | Lewis McBride | 1998-08-10 | Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays be… |
| Quills | Abbe du Coulmier | 2000-11-22 | A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, def… |
| Strength and Honor: Creating the World of ‘Gladiator’ | Self | 2005-06-07 | An in-depth look at the entire making of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator…. |
| Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia | Robby Ellsworth | 1984-03-07 | 13-year-old boy has problems reading, which his teachers attribute to laziness. It is later discovered that he has Dyslexia…. |
| My Darling Vivian | Self (archive footage) | 2020-04-27 | The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash’s first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Includes never-before-seen footage and photographs of John… |
| Chryskylodon Blues | Self | 2015-07-07 | On the set of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice…. |
| U Turn | Toby N. Tucker | 1997-10-03 | When Bobby’s car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in … |
| Hotel Rwanda | Jack Daglish | 2004-03-04 | Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnot… |
| Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Commodus (Gladiator) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 | In their second film compilation following their ‘Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation’ series, FlixMix takes you into the history of action movies from H… |
| Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart | Jimmy Emmett (archive footage) | 2014-01-17 | In an extraordinary and tragic American story, a small town murder becomes one of the highest profile cases of all time. From its historic role as the… |
| SpaceCamp | Max | 1986-06-06 | Andie Bergstrom, an astronaut eagerly awaiting her first trip to space, runs a summer camp for teenagers with her NASA-employed husband, Zach. One nig… |
| Guardians of Life | 2020-02-06 | This environmental short subject was made in collaboration of the protest group, Extinction Rebellion…. | |
| Parenthood | Garry Buckman-Lampkin | 1989-07-31 | The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, … |
| Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport | Self | 2000-11-21 | A look at the making of the Gladiator (2000) and the historical aspects presented within the film. Interviews with cast, crew and historical professor… |
| Deconstructing ‘The Village’ | Self | 2005-01-11 | In this making-of documentary, we see movie snippets, shots from the set, and interviews. We get notes from the crew and cast. We learn about the movi… |
| Making ‘Signs’ | Himself / Merrill Hess | 2003-01-07 | Nearly every possible aspect of fimmaking used to produce the motion picture Signs (2002) is closely examined here. This serves as a good companion to… |
| Her: Love in the Modern Age | Self (Archival Footage) | 2014-01-17 | Her: Love In The Modern Age chronicles reactions to Spike Jonze’s Oscar-nominated film, Her. The documentary, directed by Lance Bangs, features storie… |
| Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of Walk the Line | Self | 2006-05-22 | A documentary about the life of Johnny Cash and the making of Walk the Line (2005)…. |
| Joker: Put on a Happy Face | Self | 2020-08-18 | Featuring interviews with filmmakers and industry legends, discover the origins and evolution of The Joker, and learn why The Clown Prince of Crime is… |
| Unity | Self – Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-12 | Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on — none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one anothe… |
Joaquin Phoenix Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| I’m Still Here | Producer | 2010-09-10 | I’m Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the film follows the Oscar-nominee as… |
| We Own the Night | Producer | 2007-10-09 | A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen…. |
| Across My Land | Executive Producer | 2017-05-27 | Father and son ‘minutemen’ patrol the American/Mexican border near their home in Nogales, Arizona…. |
| What the Health | Executive Producer | 2017-03-16 | Filmmaker Kip Andersen uncovers the secret to preventing and even reversing chronic diseases, and he investigates why the nation’s leading health orga… |
| I Am Dying | Executive Producer | 2015-06-13 | This documentary follows 32-year-old Renee Heidtman during the last months of her life capturing intimate moments through photos, camera work and Heid… |
| Gunda | Executive Producer | 2021-04-15 | Experiential cinema in its purest form, GUNDA chronicles the unfiltered lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with masterful … |
| The End of Medicine | Executive Producer | 2017-09-14 | A documentary on zoonotic diseases, which threaten the health and lives of the entire human population…. |
| The End of Medicine | Executive Producer | The film explores the link between our treatment of animals and emerging health threats such as pandemics and antibiotic resistance. It specifically l… | |
| Producer | 4REAL is a series of half-hour episodes hosted by sol Guy as he travels to remote locations with celebrity guests to connect with young leaders who, u… | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| I’m Still Here | Writer | 2010-09-10 | I’m Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the film follows the Oscar-nominee as… |
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