Summer Phoenix

Summer Phoenix (born Summer Joy Bottom, December 10, 1978 ) is an American actress and musician. 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. Her father, John Lee Bottom, was from California and has English, German, and French ancestry.

Career Phoenix was a child actor, working with agent Iris Burton along with her brothers and sister at the age of two, 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.

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.

Personal life She became engaged to Casey Affleck on December 25, 2003, and gave birth to a son in Amsterdam. Phoenix and Affleck married on June 3, 2006, in Savannah, Georgia, and had a second son. In March 2016, Affleck and Phoenix publicly announced they were separating, though it has been acknowledged that they separated in November 2015. and it was finalized three days later.

In 2003, she and friends Odessa Whitmire and Ruby Canner opened the vintage clothing boutique Some Odd Rubies on Manhattan's Lower East Side. It closed in 2012.

Phoenix is vegan.

Filmography

Television Year Title Role Notes 1984 Airwolf Little Girl Season 2 episode 9: "Flight #093 Is Missing" Murder, She Wrote Cindy Donovan Season 1 episode 7: "We're Off to Kill the Wizard" 1986 Taking It Home Frannie TV movie Kate's Secret Becky Stark TV movie 1987Growing Pains Jody Season 3 episode 6: "Big Brother's Not Watching" 1988 ABC Weekend Special Lana Season 11 episode 3: "Runaway Ralph" 1989 The New Leave It to Beaver Bettie Haskell Season 4 episode 14: "Still the New Leave It to Beaver" 1990 Swamp Thing Lilly Season 1 episode 10: "New Acquaintance" 1997 ER Petra Season 4 episode 1: "Ambush" 2002 Wasted Samantha TV movie