Who's River Phoenix? - Education and Training Encyclopedia

Who's River Phoenix?

He's Jackie Phoenix's brother.

River Phoenix, an American actor, was born on August 23rd, 1970. 1993 died of heart failure due to drug overdose at the age of 23.

Life:

1970 On August 23rd, River Phoenix was born in a wooden house with four walls in Oregon, USA. He is the first child of his hippie parents. This is a hippie colony, and River spent most of his childhood in a chaotic lifestyle. River once joked that "I lost my virginity at the age of four." But this is not the main problem. With the increase of brothers and sisters in the family, life has become very difficult and the whole family has been forced to move around. It was not until 1977 that the whole family returned to Florida to settle down.

The Phoenix couple were still struggling, so River's mother came up with the idea of raising a family by children. She wants to train all her children to be movie stars. She gave them names like stage names: River and River (Ye, later Jakun, king of gladiators). ), summer (summer), Ryan (rain). River became the first experiment, and was sent to the street early to sing and earn living expenses. It happened that once their landlord arranged actors for a TV series, and River stepped onto the screen. The first work that appeared on the screen was the Explorer in 1985.

1986, he became an instant hit with "Walk with Me" and immediately became a movie star of great concern. Letters asking for signatures poured in. River was at a loss, at the mercy of the company but unaware of it. At that time, he was still a shy and introverted boy. The aura of success increased his psychological pressure, and River suddenly suffered from a language barrier. There is no good treatment for this disease. Since then, he has been exposed to drugs and alcohol, which has helped him reduce his stress and brought him into the abyss of perdition.

From 65438 to 0986, he filmed Mosquito Coast, and it is said that he started to get in touch with cocaine from then on. River doesn't like these things but can't live without them.

/kloc-starred in Love in a Foreign Land at the age of 0/7, which is also one of his masterpieces. In this film, he plays the son of an exile, wandering around with his parents. He is eager for friendship, but he doesn't have enough time to make friends. He fell in love with the girl in his class, but he had to say goodbye to her reluctantly. The river in the film has curly hair, delicate and melancholy.

1988, he played the role of Johnny in Unlimited Wanted, which won him an Oscar nomination for best actor.

1989, River participated in Spielberg's business cards raiders of the lost ark and The Last Expedition, which marked that he became a very popular star.

199 1 "My Private Idaho" won him the title of Best Actor in the volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival. He was 2 1 year old that year. It was a great era, but no one would have thought that two years later, his life would be cut off.

1993 65438+1October 3 1 day, River fell in front of the "Python House" (a club bought by Johnny Depp, and Johnny gave up the right to operate the bar forever in memory of River) because of excessive mixing of various drugs. At the age of 23.

The last movie that River should have acted in before his death was Interview with Vampires at Night, and he was going to play the role of a reporter.

His younger brother joaquin phoenix is also an excellent actor.

List of works

Explorer (1985) Explorer

Stand by Me (1986) and walk with me.

Mosquito Coast (1986) Mosquito Coast

Little Nikita (1986) Little Nikita

Ben Kong (1988) piano love in a foreign land

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Rearden A Day in the Life of Jim Riordan.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade/Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

I love you so much (1990).

My own private Idaho (199 1) is half man or man/unruly sky/my private Idaho.

Fighting dogs (199 1) is a laundry list of spring scenery.