Joaquin Phoenix Biography

Biography

a secretary in NBC and she was introduced to a child-casting director. That was how River and Leaf started to appear in TV series "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" in 1982. Possessing a natural talent, River was promptly set as the lead role of "Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia" (1984) where Leaf played his brother. They did splendid performance that Young Artist Awards nominated both of them Best Young Actor in a Family Film Made for Television in 1985.

Not as good-looking as his brother, it took a harder path for Leaf to unravel fame. By the time he starred in "SpaceCamp" (1986), River had starred in Oscar nominated flick "Stand by Me" (1986). Not wanting to be left behind, Leaf scored his biggest movie yet in "Parenthood" (1989) opposite Steve Martin, but again his brother's career was many steps ahead by being teenage Indy in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989). This huge gap didn't make Leaf jealous of his brother "It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor." Still high-spirited he continued filming his next movie "Walking the Dog" (1991), but it wasn't that ...

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successful. He decided to change back his name to Joaquin and take a break from acting. He was ready to act again two years later but the incident on his brother's death had left him devastated. He didn't make any comeback until another two years when he became Nicole Kidman's object of seduction in "To Die For". Fell one time but stand up two times, Joaquin could see the end of the tunnel.

Off-screen, Joaquin's love life was equally interesting. While living in New York, he dated a girl named Acacia but the relationship didn't last long as he met Liv Tyler in 1995. He fell in love immediately like how he described it, "I was in awe. Every once in a while you find an actor that, with one word, can sum up eight different emotions. She absolutely nailed that." They became an item and even had a chance to appear in the same movie titled "Inventing the Abbotts" (1997). They broke up a year after the movie and Joaquin was seen occasionally with some models afterwards.

Ready to make a breakthrough, he was put in parallel with top actors. Oliver Stone's "U Turn" (1997) gave him the chance ...