Summer Phoenix

{{Infobox person

| name = Summer Phoenix

| image = Peace-alliance-Rain-Phoenix-Summer-Phoenix-and-Heart-Phoenix-.jpg

| caption = Phoenix in 2011

| alma_mater = Tisch School of the Arts

| birth_name = Summer Joy Bottom

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|12|10}}

| birth_place = Winter Park, Florida, U.S.

| known_for = The Believer
Swamp Thing
The Faculty
Esther Kahn
SLC Punk!

| spouse = {{marriage|Casey Affleck|2006|2017|end=divorced}}

| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|musician}}

| yearsactive = 1984–2004
2016–present

| children = 2

| mother = Arlyn Phoenix

| relatives = River Phoenix (brother)
Rain Phoenix (sister)
Joaquin Phoenix (brother)
Liberty Phoenix (sister)

}}

Summer Phoenix (born Summer Joy Bottom,Furek, Maxim W. (2008). [https://books.google.com/books?id=UkmhTZBHlEoC&pg=PA72&dq=%22bottom+to+phoenix%22 The Death Proclamation of Generation X: A Self-Fulfilling Prophesy of Goth, Grunge and Heroin]. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse. pp. 72–73. {{ISBN|978-0-595-50558-6}}. December 10, 1978{{Cite news|title=TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS|author=|date=December 10, 2015|work=Burnie Advocate|page=2|quote=Susan Dey, US actress (1952-); Kenneth Branagh, British director (1960-); Meg White, US rock musician (1974-); Summer Phoenix, American actress (1978-); Xavier Samuel, Australian actor (1983-).|id={{ProQuest|1746947896}}}} See also:

{{Cite news|title=TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS|author=|date=December 10, 2010|work=The Christchurch Press|page=7|quote=Susan Dey, US actress (1952-); Kenneth Branagh, British director (1960-); Chris Martin, NZ cricketer (1974-); Summer Phoenix, American actress (1978-);|id={{ProQuest|817485460}}}} ) is an American actress. She is the youngest sibling of actors River, Rain, Joaquin, and Liberty Phoenix.

Early life

Phoenix's mother, Arlyn Sharon (née Dunetz), was born in New York, to Jewish parents of Hungarian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent.{{cite news|url=http://draven.ifrance.com/ames/s-press.html |url-status=dead |title=Summer Phoenix |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060715013916/http://draven.ifrance.com/ames/s-press.html |first=Olivier |last=Nicklaus |work=Les Inrockuptibles |number=244 |date=May 23–29, 2000 |access-date=April 14, 2017 |archive-date=July 15, 2006 }}{{cite news| url= https://www.foxnews.com/story/walk-the-line-star-wont-campaign-for-oscar/ |website= Fox News | title= 'Walk the Line' Star Won't Campaign for Oscar | date= October 24, 2005 | first= Roger| last= Friedman| access-date= June 18, 2018}}{{cite news| url= http://www.pravdareport.com/history/18-11-2005/9253-celebrities-0/| title= Ten American showbiz celebrities of Russian descent |website= PravdaReport.com|date= November 18, 2005 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/09/rain-phoenix-river-joaquin-family|title=Rain Phoenix's unusual childhood|last=Corner|first=Lena|date=July 9, 2011|website=The Guardian|access-date=June 18, 2018}} Her father, John Lee Bottom, was from California and has English, German, and French ancestry.{{Cite news|url=http://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/5788/|title=The Days of Summer|last=Pfefferman|first=Naomi|date=April 11, 2002|work=Jewish Journal|access-date=May 26, 2018}}

Career

Phoenix was a child actor, working with agent Iris Burton along with her brothers and sister at the age of two,{{Citation needed |date=December 2023}} and went on to have guest roles in Murder, She Wrote, Growing Pains (as a not-very-close friend of Ben Seaver), Swamp Thing, 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.{{Citation needed |date=December 2023}}

She was a member of the rock band The Causey Way with her sister Rain. She later made guest appearances on albums by Rain's band, the Papercranes.{{Citation needed |date=December 2023}}

Personal life

She became engaged to Casey Affleck on December 25, 2003, and gave birth to a son in Amsterdam.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3673779/Casey-Afflecks-time-to-shine.html |title=Casey Affleck's time to shine |date=May 30, 2008 |newspaper=The Telegraph |first=Sheryl |last=Garratt |access-date=August 18, 2014 }} Phoenix and Affleck married on June 3, 2006, in Savannah, Georgia{{cite magazine|url=https://people.com/celebrity/casey-affleck-summer-phoenix-wed/ |title=Casey Affleck, Summer Phoenix Wed |date=June 5, 2006 |magazine=People |access-date=August 18, 2014 }} and had a second son.{{cite news |url=http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/whats-on/film-tv/affleck-brothers-strike-gold-silver-3958603 |title=Affleck brothers strike gold on the silver screen |work=The Birmingham Post |date=June 5, 2008 |first=Alison |last=Jones |access-date=August 18, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053035/http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/whats-on/film-tv/affleck-brothers-strike-gold-silver-3958603 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 }}{{cite magazine |url=http://celebritybabies.people.com/2008/06/06/update-casey-af/ |title=Update: Casey Affleck and Summer Phoenix welcome second son, Atticus |date=June 6, 2008 |magazine=People |access-date=August 18, 2014 |archive-date=August 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819102957/http://celebritybabies.people.com/2008/06/06/update-casey-af/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite news|url=http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/01/see-divorce-document-casey-affleck-and-summer-pheonix-make-split-official-filing-for-divorce-6820534/|title=Casey Affleck and Summer Phoenix make split official filing for divorce|last=Rutter|first=Claire|date=August 1, 2017|website=Metro|access-date=September 7, 2017}} In March 2016, Affleck and Phoenix publicly announced they were separating,{{cite news| url=http://www.people.com/article/casey-affleck-summer-phoenix-split-10-year-marriage|title=Casey Affleck & Summer Phoenix Split: Inside Their 10-Year Marriage|first=Chancellor|last=Agard| work=People| date= March 16, 2016|access-date=March 16, 2016}} though it has been acknowledged that they separated in November 2015. Phoenix filed a petition of divorce with the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles on August 1, 2017, citing "irreconcilable differences,"{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2017/08/01/summer-phoenix-files-divorce-husband-casey-affleck/528256001/ |title=Summer Phoenix files for divorce from husband Casey Affleck |work=USA Today |date=August 1, 2017 |access-date=August 28, 2018}} and it was finalized three days later.{{cite web|last=Fisher|first=Kendall|date=August 4, 2017|title=Casey Affleck Finalizes Divorce From Summer Phoenix|url=https://www.eonline.com/uk/news/871539/casey-affleck-responds-to-summer-phoenix-s-divorce-filing|website=E! Online|access-date=August 24, 2020}}

In 2003, she and friends Odessa Whitmire and Ruby Canner opened the vintage clothing boutique Some Odd Rubies on Manhattan's Lower East Side.{{cite news | url = http://nymag.com/listings/stores/some-odd-rubies/ | title=Store > Some Odd Rubies| work=New York| access-date=March 16, 2016}}{{cite web| url = http://www.someoddrubies.com/ |title=Some Odd Rubies| publisher= (official site) | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150423110107/http://someoddrubies.com/ | archive-date= April 23, 2015}} It closed in 2012.{{cite web| url = http://www.boweryboogie.com/2012/05/ludlow-street-boutique-shuffle/| title=Ludlow Street Boutique Shuffle| date=May 1, 2012 |work=BoweryBoogie.com| archive-date=September 10, 2015 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20150910001242/http://www.boweryboogie.com/2012/05/ludlow-street-boutique-shuffle/ |url-status=live}}

Phoenix is vegan.[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/feb/15/features.magazine Summer Phoenix: Coping with Hollywood | Film | The Observer]