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Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Phoenix is known as an American actor. He is most famous for his roles in films such as 'Gladiator' and 'Walk the Line'.

Related Biography: Orlando Bloom

Background and Age

Joaquin Rafael Phoenix was born on October 28, 1974 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As the child of the preachers for the Children of God religious gathering, Phoenix moved regularly with his family during his initial life. His folks, John and Arlyn Bottom, finished work stints in Central and South America before starting to get frustrated with the Children of God. After they left the gathering, the family took the new surname Phoenix, which was emblematic of their new life.

Career and Net Worth

In 2000, Phoenix almost stole the show from Roman epic Gladiator star, Russell Crowe with his turn as the contorted, evil leader Commodus. His work in this summer blockbuster, directed by Ridley Scott, got him nominations from a large number of the acting profession's most esteemed honors, including the Oscars. That same year, Phoenix kept on exhibiting his range as a performer, playing a smooth operator in The Yards (2000), opposite of Mark Wahlberg, and French religious authority Abbe Coulmier in Quills, about the writer Marquis de Sade.

Working with director M. Night Shyamalan, Phoenix had a supporting role as Mel Gibson's more youthful sibling in the ghostly spine chiller Signs (2002), which got more than $227 million in the cinema box office. He led the pack for his next coordinated effort with Shyamalan in The Village (2004), playing a man who puts his little community in danger by investigating the secretive woods that encompass his town. At this point, Phoenix had turned out to be known for his propensity to inundate himself totally in the lives of his characters as a method actor.

In 2018, it was reported that Phoenix would star in a starting point origin story of the Joker, Batman's famous enemy, in a movie helmed by The Hangover director Todd Phillips. Comic fans at first communicated hesitations, in part on the grounds that no source story of the character existed. A mystery trailer released the in the following spring offered a tempting look at Phoenix as the notorious Batman villain. In August 2019, a full length trailer was released for the film. Joker is booked to hit theaters in October 2019.

Marriage, Wife and Kids

Joaquin Phoenix started dating his Mary Magdalene co-star Rooney Mara in 2016. In July 2019, it was announced that the couple had gotten engaged to each other.


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 28 Oct, 1974
Age: 45 yrs
Citizenship: United States of America
Birth Place: San Juan
residence: Hollywood Hills
Gender: Male
Net Worth 2021: 50 million
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Last Modified: Feb 19 2023
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