Actor Joaquin Pheonix and his fiancee, actor Rooney Mara, have become parents to a baby boy, their first child together. The couple has named their son after Phoenix’s late older brother, actor River Phoenix, who died in 1993 at the age of 23 of a drug overdose.
The news was shared by Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky during a Q&A at the 2020 Zurich Film Festival, post the screening of his documentary Gunda, executive produced by Pheonix. “He just got a baby, by the way, his name was … a beautiful son called River, so he cannot promote it now,” Kossakovsky said.
The actor remembered his brother River during his Oscar speech. “When he was 17, my brother wrote this lyric, ‘Run to the rescue with love, and peace will follow’,” Joaquin said. Joaquin and Rooney Mara met in 2016 on the sets of Mary Magdalene, in which Mara played the title role alongside Phoenix as Jesus. They started dating soon after and made their red carpet debut at the closing ceremony of Cannes Film Festival 2017.
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