Joaquin Phoenix was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to parents from the continental United States. His father is of English, along with Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German, Irish, Welsh, and French Huguenot ancestry, while his mother is Ashkenazi Jewish.
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Joaquin Phoenix started his career in the early 1980s and some of his first major film roles were in SpaceCamp (1986) and Parenthood (1989). Phoenix starred in the satirical film Buffalo Soldiers as a U.S. Army soldier.
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Joaquin Phoenix made his acting debut alongside his brother in the television series Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in the 1982 episode “Christmas Song”.
Joaquin Phoenix won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for the psychological thriller You Were Never Really Here (2017). He also starred in the independent films C’mon C’mon (2021) and Beau Is Afraid (2023).
In 2003, Phoenix played the irresolute husband of a superstar skater in Thomas Vinterberg’s romance drama It’s All About Love. Phoenix starred as Beau Wassermann in Ari Aster’s surrealist black tragicomedy Beau Is Afraid (2023).
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