“[Phoenix] commands the screen and breaks your heart; he makes us feel it all vicariously.”
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Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Rafael Phoenix is an American actor. Widely described as one of the preeminent actors of his generation and known for his roles as dark, unconventional and eccentric characters in independent film, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, an Actor Award, a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, a Volpi Cup, and two Golden Globes.
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2026· 3 entries
“climate change is imminent if we do not adopt a plant-based lifestyle”
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Yahoo: Inside Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara's Relationship
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2025· 2 entries
fact checker rated the claim “Users widely claimed that Hollywood actor Joaquin Phoenix wore a red hand pin, symbolizing the 2000 Ramallah operation in which two Israeli were killed.” misleading.
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CNN: Joaquin Phoenix reflects on ‘horrible’ Letterman interview that the actor calls ‘one of the worst nights of my life’
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2024· 10 entries
Page Six: Joaquin Phoenix tried to drop out of original ‘Gladiator’ before Russell Crowe blasted him for being ‘unprofessional’
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Deadline.com: Joaquin Phoenix Says He Talked To Christopher Nolan About Playing The Joker In ‘The Dark Knight’: “I Wasn’t Ready Then”
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Released album “Joker: Folie à deux: Music From the Motion Picture”.
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The Guardian: Joker: Folie à Deux review – Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga musical spirals out of tune
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The Guardian: ‘I probably shouldn’t do this again’: Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga talk about ‘difficult’ Joker diets
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Page Six: Joaquin Phoenix praises Lady Gaga’s ‘impressive’ weight loss in new ‘Joker’ movie
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Yahoo: Joaquin Phoenix refuses to reveal why he quit gay romance film: ‘Not sure how that would be helpful’
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The Guardian: Joaquin Phoenix exits Todd Haynes gay drama five days before filming begins
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The Guardian: Joker: Folie à Deux: trailer for Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga musical sequel released
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Phoenix reprised his role as Joker in Phillips' sequel Joker: Folie à Deux with Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn
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2023· 1 entry
Before a wide release the following week
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2021· 1 entry
Starred in Mike Mills' drama C'mon C'mon, as Johnny, a radio journalist who embarks on a cross-country trip with his young nephew
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2020· 8 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Joker (2020).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Joker (2020).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Joker (2020).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Joker (2020).
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Phoenix was arrested with actress Jane Fonda at a climate change protest outside the United States Capitol in Washington, D
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Phoenix served as an executive producer on Gunda, directed by Viktor Kossakovsky
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Remarked that filmmakers immediately seemed to recognize that Phoenix was more than a heartthrob, and that there was "something more tortured, more vulnerable and infinitely more interesting at play beneath the surface"
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Phoenix collaborated with JusticeLA to create a public service announcement #SuingToSaveLives about the health of people in L
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2019· 4 entries
Entertainment Tonight: Joaquin Phoenix
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Phoenix stated that in choosing films, he solely relies on the director, "I don't really care about genre or budget size, anything like that
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Phoenix and his partner Rooney Mara led the National Animal Rights Day demonstration to help spread awareness for animal rights
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Phoenix starred as the DC Comics character Joker in Todd Phillips's psychological thriller Joker; an alternative origin story for the character
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2018· 3 entries
Phoenix portrayed Jesus in the biblical drama Mary Magdalene, written by Helen Edmundson and directed by Garth Davis
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Described himself as a secular Jew who did not affiliate with any organized religion; one of his "core values" is the idea of forgiveness
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Collaborated with Rooney Mara and Sia to narrate Chris Delforce's documentary Dominion
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor (2017).
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2015· 3 entries
Explaining that he was uncomfortable receiving accolades for his work, considering the filmmaking process a collaborative one
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“the quality of acting suffers”
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Phoenix said that he prefers independent film over major studio film, citing that "the quality of acting suffers"
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2014· 2 entries
“Animal rights is a part of my everyday life. When you live by example, you create a certain level of awareness. Friends of mine, people I have never discussed vegetarianism with, are adopting vegetarian habits because they see it.”
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Phoenix took on the role of Doc Sportello, a private investigator and hippie/dope head trying to help his ex-girlfriend solve a crime in the crime comedy-drama Inherent Vice, based on Thomas Pynchon's detective novel of
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2013· 1 entry
Simulated drowning in a 41-second PETA spot, designed to dramatise how fish suffer in the final moments of their lives
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2012· 3 entries
Won Volpi Cup for Best Actor (2012).
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Phoenix met Her co-star Rooney Mara
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Phoenix labeled the Academy Awards "bullshit"
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2011· 2 entries
A trilobite species was named Gladiatoria phoenix for his iconic role in the 2000 film Gladiator, and in 2020, a spider species endemic to Iran was named Loureedia phoenixi (also known as the Joker spider) due to its col
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It was announced that Phoenix would star in Paul Thomas Anderson's drama film The Master, which traces the relationship between Freddie Quell (Phoenix), a World War II navy veteran struggling to adjust to a post-war soci
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2008· 1 entry
Phoenix starred as a suicidal bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor in Gray's Two Lovers
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (2007).
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2006· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Walk the Line (2006).
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While driving down a winding canyon road in Hollywood, Phoenix veered off the road and flipped his car
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2005· 2 entries
Phoenix co-starred alongside Reese Witherspoon in the James Mangold directed film Walk the Line, a Johnny Cash biopic, after Cash himself approved of Phoenix
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For his work and contribution to Earthlings
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2003· 1 entry
Phoenix played the irresolute husband of a superstar-skater (Claire Danes) in Thomas Vinterberg's romance-drama It's All About Love, and voiced Kenai in the Disney animated film Brother Bear
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2000· 1 entry
Phoenix co-starred in three films
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1997· 1 entry
Phoenix played a small-town troublemaker in Oliver Stone's U Turn, and a poor man in love with a rich woman in Inventing the Abbotts
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1993· 1 entry
River died of a drug overdose outside The Viper Room in West Hollywood
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1989· 1 entry
Phoenix co-starred as Garry, the withdrawn teenage nephew of Steve Martin's character in Ron Howard's comedy-drama Parenthood
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1984· 1 entry
Phoenix starred opposite his brother River in the ABC Afterschool Special entitled Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia, for which they shared a nomination for Best Young Actor in a Family Film Made for Television at the 6t
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1981· 1 entry
The film follows Arthur Fleck, a failed clown and stand-up comedian whose descent into insanity and nihilism inspires a violent counter-cultural revolution against the wealthy in a decaying Gotham City
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1979· 1 entry
When Phoenix's father had to stop working because of an old spinal injury, the family moved to Los Angeles where the mother met a high-profile child agent named Iris Burton, who got the children into commercials and bit
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1977· 1 entry
Being opposed to the cult's increasingly questionable rules, particularly the practice of flirty fishing
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1974· 2 entries
To John Lee Bottom, the founder of a landscape gardening company, and Arlyn "Heart" Bottom (née Dunetz), an executive secretary at NBC and whose connection to an agent provided her children with acting work
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Born 1974-10-28.
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