| Summer Phoenix | |
| Alma Mater: | Tisch School of the Arts |
| Birth Name: | Summer Joy Bottom |
| Birth Date: | 10 December 1978 |
| Birth Place: | Winter Park, Florida, U.S. |
| Known For: | The Believer Swamp Thing The Faculty Esther Kahn SLC Punk! |
| Yearsactive: | 1984–2004 2016–present |
| Children: | 2 |
| Mother: | Arlyn Phoenix |
| Relatives: | River Phoenix (brother) Rain Phoenix (sister) Joaquin Phoenix (brother) Liberty Phoenix (sister) |
Summer Phoenix (born Summer Joy Bottom;[1] December 10, 1978[2]) is an American actress. She is the youngest sibling of actors River Phoenix, Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, and Liberty Phoenix.
Phoenix's mother, Arlyn Sharon (née Dunetz), was born in New York, to Jewish parents of Hungarian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent.[3] [4] [5] [6] Her father, John Lee Bottom, was from California and has English, German, and French ancestry.[7]
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, 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.
She became engaged to Casey Affleck on December 25, 2003, and gave birth to a son in Amsterdam.[8] Phoenix and Affleck married on June 3, 2006, in Savannah, Georgia[9] and had a second son.[10] [11] [12] In March 2016, Affleck and Phoenix publicly announced they were separating,[13] though it has been acknowledged that they separated in November 2015.