In an interview with Details magazine in November 1991, Phoenix stated he lost his virginity at age four to other children while in the Children of God, but he had "blocked it out". According to Vanity Fair, Phoenix was raped at the age of four. His family settled in Caracas, Venezuela, where the Children of God had stationed them to work as missionaries and fruit gatherers. In 1973, the family joined the religious organization known as the Children of God. I mean, he could read and write, and he had an appetite for it, but he had no deep roots into any kind of sense of history or literature." George Sluizer claimed Phoenix was dyslexic. Screenwriter Naomi Foner later commented, "He was totally, totally without education. Phoenix has stated that they lived in a "desperate situation." Phoenix often played guitar while he and his sister sang on street corners for money and food to support their ever-growing family. Phoenix's family moved cross country when he was very young. They married on September 13, 1969, less than a year after meeting. While hitchhiking in California she met John Lee Bottom. In 1968, Phoenix's mother travelled across the United States. His father was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California, of English, German, and French ancestry. His mother was born in New York to Jewish parents whose families had emigrated from Russia and Hungary. In an interview with People, Phoenix described his parents as " hippieish". Phoenix's parents named him after the river of life from the Hermann Hesse novel Siddhartha, and he received his middle name from the Beatles' song " Hey Jude". He has four younger siblings, Rain (born 1972), Joaquin (born 1974), Liberty (born 1976) and Summer (born 1978), as well as a paternal half-sister, Jodean (born 1964). Phoenix was born on August 23, 1970, in Madras, Oregon, the first child of Arlyn Dunetz and John Lee Bottom. Phoenix died at age 23 from combined drug intoxication in West Hollywood in the early hours of Halloween, 1993, having overdosed on cocaine and heroin (a mixture commonly known as speedball) at The Viper Room. He earned the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for his performance as Michael Waters, a gay hustler in search of his estranged mother in the Gus Van Sant drama My Own Private Idaho (1991). Phoenix made a transition into more adult-oriented roles earning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role in the Sidney Lumet drama Running on Empty (1988). His early film roles include Explorers (1985), Stand by Me (1986), and The Mosquito Coast (1986). He began his acting career at age 10 in television commercials. Phoenix grew up in an itinerant family, as the older brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, and Summer Phoenix. He received numerous accolades including Volpi Cup and the Independent Spirit Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, and Golden Globe Award. Phoenix was known as a teen actor before taking on leading roles in critically acclaimed films. River Jude Phoenix ( né Bottom Aug– October 31, 1993) was an American actor and musician.
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