Joaquin Phoenix

Birthday: Oct 28, 1974
Birthplace: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Biography:
Joaquín Rafael Phoenix (also known as Leaf Pheonix) is an Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe Award winning, American actor. He was born and raised for a time in Puerto Rico, until his family moved to California, where he began a career as a child actor. He is from a family of performers, most notably his brother, the late actor River Phoenix. He often plays supporting roles as conflicted, insecure characters with a darker side. He has stated on numerous occasions that he has never watched ...
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any of his performances on screen. He portrayed a troubled teen in Gus Van Sant's To Die For, and earned positive reviews for roles as the cruel Roman emperor Commodus in Gladiator (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), a conflicted priest in Quills, a washed-up baseball player in M. Night Shyamalan's Signs, and a lovestruck farmer in Shyamalan's The Village.
Filmography
- Two Lovers (2008)
- Reservation Road (2007)
- We Own the Night (2007)
- Hotel Rwanda (2005)
- Walk the Line (2005)
- I'm Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust (2005)
- Ladder 49 (2004)
- The Village (2004)
- It's All About Love (2003)
- Brother Bear (2003)
- Earthlings (2003)
- Signs (2002)
- Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
- Quills (2000)
- The Yards (2000)
- Gladiator (2000)
- 8MM (1999)
- Clay Pigeons (1998)
- Return to Paradise (1998)
- U Turn (1997)
- Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
- To Die For (1995)
- Parenthood (1989)
- Russkies (1987)
- SpaceCamp (Space Camp) (1986)
- Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' ()
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- Diana Rautscher at 1:57am on October 28th, 2009
- happy birthday
- Eleanor Post at 7:46pm on October 20th, 2009
- What a talented actor. And should be recognized for his own talents and not for his late brother's fame. Good luck with your future success.
- Dan Force at 12:03pm on October 14th, 2009
- your hot ...
- Aidan McNally at 2:03pm on August 26th, 2009
- can't wait till that album drops yo that shit's gonna be fire - my fucking ass
- Amanda Cifra at 9:51am on August 15th, 2009
- by far one of my favorite actors! He has so much talent!
- Jeff Tirayoh at 6:03pm on August 13th, 2009
- I like most his acting..!!
- Alexander Wilson at 8:09am on August 11th, 2009
- when i saw his in signs the other day I thought to myself ... " what films has he been in ? " because i recognised him and then came on here. Now I know I instantly recoginsed him from the Walk the Line posters and when he was in Gladiator which I have seen a few times.
- Nicky Brwon at 10:14am on July 29th, 2009
- good actor
- Facebook User at 3:28pm on July 28th, 2009
- great actor!
- Chad Jackson at 10:43pm on July 24th, 2009
- this is a fine man
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