River Jude Phoenix (née Bottom; August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993) was an American actor, musician, and activist. Phoenix grew up in an itinerant family, as the oldest brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, and Summer Phoenix. He had no formal schooling, but he showed an instinctive talent for the guitar, and he played and sang on the streets for money. He began his acting career at age 10 in a handful of television commercials. He starred in the science fiction adventure film Explorers (1985) and had his breakthrough 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 fought heroin addiction and died at age 23 from combined drug intoxication in West Hollywood in the early hours of Halloween, 1993, after unknowingly ingesting cocaine and heroin (a mixture commonly known as a speedball) at The Viper Room.

Фільмографія

• 2012Dark Blood — Boy
• 2012My Own Private River — Michael "Mike" Waters (archive footage)
• 2005The Phoenix Portal — Wolfgang Müller / Michael "Mike" Waters (archive footage)
• 1994Silent Tongue — Talbot Roe
• 1994Інтерв’ю з вампіром — In Memory Of
• 1993The Thing Called Love — James Wright
• 1992Зломники — Carl
• 1991Dogfight — Eddie Birdlace
• 1991Мій власний штат Айдахо — Mike Waters
• 1990I Love You to Death — Devo Nod
• 1989Індіана Джонс і останній хрестовий похід — Young Indy
• 1988A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon — Jimmy Reardon
• 1988Little Nikita — Jeff Grant
• 1988Running on Empty — Danny Pope
• 1986Circle of Violence: A Family Drama — Chris Benfield
• 1986The Mosquito Coast — Charlie Fox
• 1986Залишся зі мною — Chris Chambers
• 1985Explorers — Wolfgang Müller
• Robert Kennedy & His Times — Robert Kennedy Jr.
• 1985Surviving — Philip Brogan
• 1984Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia — Brian Ellsworth
• Celebrity — Young Jeffie Crawford
• It's Your Move — Brian
• Family Ties — Eugene Forbes
• Hotel
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers — Guthrie McFadden

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (14)

• 2026Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Joaquin Phoenix: An Actor of Extremes — Self - Actor (archive footage)
• 2023Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Showbiz Kids — Self
• Too Young to Die — Self (archive footage)
• 2006Final 24: River Phoenix — Self (archive footage)
• 2003101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy — Self (archive footage)
• 2003The Making of ‘Sneakers’ — Self
• 2000Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me — Self (archive footage)
• 1996This Road Will Never End — Self (archive footage)
• 1994Truth or Dairy — Self (archive footage)
• 1992Flea Master Session — Self
• 1991Evolution's End? — Self