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Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries.
Actor Joaquin Phoenix portrays the infamous French military commander Napoleon Bonaparte in Napoleon, directed by Ridley Scott, with whom Phoenix previously worked on Gladiator (2000).
The fifth child was born in Florida where the family settled; around this time they legally adopted the surname Phoenix, inspired by the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes, symbolizing a new beginning.
Joaquin Phoenix (born 1974), American actor, producer and musician. Pat Phoenix (1923–1986), British actress. Rain Phoenix (born 1972), American actress. River Phoenix (1970–1993), American actor, musician and activist.
In English culture, the Phoenix is a mythical bird, very beautiful and unique in its kind, which, according to legend, lives in the western desert for 500 or 600 years, burns itself on a pile of debris, and from the resulting ashes, he himself once again.