River Jude Phoenix (August 23 1970 – October 31 1993) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe- nominated American film actor. He was listed on John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 38 as one of twelve "promising new actors of 1986", and was hailed as highly talented by such critics as Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. His career was cut short, however, when he died of an overdose of heroin-and-cocaine on Halloween morning at age 23. He was the older brother of Joaquin Phoenix.
<p>River Phoenix was born River Jude Bottom in Metolius, Oregon, five miles south of Madras, Oregon. He was the first of five children born to John Lee Bottom, who was from a Catholic family in California, and Arlyn Sharon Dunetz, who was born in the Bronx to Margaret and Meyer Dunetz, Orthodox Jewish emigrants from Hungary and Russia. Both Phoenix and his mother said that he was named after the River of Life in Herman Hesse's novel Siddhartha, and that his middle name comes from The Beatles song "Hey Jude." Phoenix grew up...
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