Biography
The ascending star of the acting world Riverur Phoenix was proper a big future, which never came due to tragic events. Phoenix left life on top of a career. He is one of those actors, whose death wrote and spoke not one year.Childhood and youth
River Jud Bottom was born in the city of Madras on August 23, 1970 in the family of Arlin Dewnets and John Lee Bottoma. The first child was called in honor of the river life from the novel Siddhartha and the songs "Hey Jude".
Arling and John were hippie for some time, but moved away from this movement, joining the "Children of God" sect. The family moved to Caracas, where they were distributed to missionary work collectors of fruit.
Soon mom and dad boy became many children's parents: In 1972, Rhine was born, and after 2 years - Hoakin. Summer and Libertad called the second and third daughter. Spouses did not receive financial support from the sect and lived in poverty. Children independently earned a family feed: leaving the streets of the city, Raine Sang, and River played the guitar. Therefore, the early biography of the boy is not sugar.
When the sect began to move in a negative direction, Bottoma left her, moving to Los Angeles. In the spring of 1979, the family officially changed the last name, becoming phoenixes in honor of the fairy-tale bird, revived from the ash. This act symbolized the beginning of a new life. At the insistence of Rivera and Hoakin, all family members became vegetarians.
The boy's dad worked at the Casting agents on the NBC, so he had to organize a meeting with a children's agent Ayris Burton. She was so impressed by the family that she agreed to take immediately for all the children. Then Hollywood promised them the prospects, but the Riverer Phoenix was more lucky.
Films
For the first time on television, Felix appeared at the age of 10 in the series "Fantasy", where he sang with the sister of Rhine. After 2 years, the boy starred in the Seven Brides Pictures for Seven Brothers, playing the younger brother.
The young actor went to listen to the guitar and quickly born into the image of Elvis Presley, charming producers of the show. Despite this, the next role River managed to get a year after the last work, in the TV film "Celebrity". The Scene of the Young Jeffrey Crawford lasted about 10 minutes, but his character was listed by the central hero.
The key operation of Rivera became an episodic role in "Review of the back: Dyslexian Mystery", where in the story the boy learns that he has dyslexia. In the same project, Hoakin Phoenix starred. Brought by a young actor Approval of critics The role of a boy with dyslexia helped to get the chief character of Philip Bogan in the movie "Survival". This appearance was the last before joining the large world of cinema.
The first significant role of Phoenix in the movie - Botanist Boy Wolfgang Muller in a large-budgetary science fiction cinema called "Researchers". After the central role in the screening of the story of King "Stay with me", River got the approval of critics.
The family of Phoenixes often moved and by the time the 18th anniversary of Rivera changed 40 seats. After completion of the filming in the film "Running on the spot", the family finally settled in Maycanopi.
After the comedy, I love you to death, "River's film piggy bank was replenished with a sensational film" My Personal State Idaho ". This is a touching and shocking story of two guys who despise public morality. One of the young people played Phoenix, and the other - Keanu Rivz, who became a friend of River in life. After this role about the actor spoke as sex symbol and the future star of Hollywood.
Despite approval, River was not accustomed. In an interview, he said that he wants a family and finish education. The young man thanked God for the happy memories and believed that they were better than any toys with which the children of Phoenix were deprived.
The last finished work of the guy became the film "What is called love." After Phoenix starred in the "bad blood" project, but the film was abandoned due to the death of Rivera. The main onhuman shootings were finished, but in the pavilion episodes, the guy did not have time to play. Incompractive amount - 700 kg - film was at the disposal of the insurance company.
In 2012, the director, having learned about the plans of the firm to destroy the material, stole the film and mounted a picture from her. The missing fragments he took from the photograph and voiced by the voice-up text. The premiere of the film successfully passed in the fall of 2012. Elena Plakhov's critic noted that whether the film was completed on time, he would become the culmination of Rivera kinobiography.
At least the main source of earnings of the actor served by cinema, friends and relatives celebrated the main passion of the guy music. Phoenix did not care about the idea to perform solo, so he gathered the group "Aleka's Attic", which included Sister Rhine. The team collapsed after the death of the actor.
Personal life
At the age of 16, during the filming of the "Coast of Mosquito" tape, River became friends with Martha Plympton, his peer. Young people met a little less than 3 years. Judging by the rumors, the beloved abandoned the Phoenix due to the passion of the guy by drugs.
The next girl of the actor was Susanna Langot, the affair with which was launched a little over 3 years. The couple lived together until January 1993.
On the shooting of the melodrama Peter Bogdanovich "What is called love" The personal life of Rivera has changed again: he faded actress acting the role of the main character, Samantha Mattis. Phoenix madly fell in love with the girl, even asked the director who was his big friend, including the maximum number of romantic scenes with her in the picture.
According to Bogdanovich, the actors could not turn around each other, and Phoenix looked happy. It was Samantha who became the last true love of Rivera.
Phoenix fought all his life for animal rights and performed as an environmental and political activist. The guy was considered a representative of Reta and provided financial support to several environmental firms. A act who speaks a lot about River as a man, has become the purchase of 320 hectares of the rainforest in Costa Rica, which threatened destruction.
Death
With a close friend of Flee On October 30, 1993, River was going to perform at the Viper Room club, which then owned Johnny Depp. At some point, Phoenix left the hall to take drugs. Soon the guy became bad, and someone offered him a drug used in order to neutralize overdose effects. But due to the accepted drug, the effect turned out to be reverse.
He returned to the club to the company and said that he feels bad and wants to enter the air. Metis, Rhine and Joaquin helped to leave the building, River literally fell immediately and began to fight in convulsions: he was shaking about 5 minutes. At this time, the brother caused the service 911, and the sister made artificial respiration.
The club's concert continued: Johnny Depp with the group "P" was played on the stage. According to Haynes, the song "Michael Stipe" was performed during the attack.
Paramedics, arriving at the place of the call, saw the dying phoenix, but despite the efforts of the doctors, the guy's condition did not improve. Therefore, in the ambulance car, the guy was taken to the medical center. Further attempts to reanimate it, including with the help of an electrocardiotimulator, remained unsuccessful. Rivera's heart stopped on October 31, 1993 in 1.51 nights. The cause of death, on the conclusion of doctors, has become an overdose of drugs.
In the morning, the club has become a temporary place for commemoration: fans came there, leaving flowers, snapshots and candles on the sidewalk. After the incident, the club did not work for a week. In the future, Depp closed the institution every year on October 31 until 2004, until he sold it.
Samantha saw tragedy in the club, and after a long time he was restored from loss. Like Hoakin, who was seriously worried about the death of her older brother.
River had a positive image: he opened openly on social and political topics, led a healthy lifestyle. As a result, the death of the actor attracted a lot of attention of the press. Family and friends practically do not express relative to the care of the actor from life.
The phoenix was cremated, and the dust dispelled on the family ranch in Maekenopi, Florida.
Filmography
- 1982-1983 - "Seven brides for seven brothers"
- 1984 - "Celebrity"
- 1984 - "ABC specifically after school"
- 1984 - "Your stroke"
- 1984 - "Hotel"
- 1985 - "Robert Kennedy and his times"
- 1985 - "Survival"
- 1985 - "Researchers"
- 1985 - "Family Ties"
- 1986 - "Stay with me"
- 1986 - "Circle of violence: Family drama"
- 1986 - "Coast of Moskitov"
- 1988 - "One night from Jimmy Ryndon"
- 1988 - "Little Nikita"
- 1988 - "Running on the spot"
- 1989 - "Indiana Jones and the last crusade"
- 1990 - "I love you to death"
- 1991 - "My Personal State Idaho"
- 1991 - "stupid bet"
- 1992 - "Tijuns"
- 1993 - "What is called love"
- 1993 - "Even the Cowboy girls are sometimes sad"
- 1994 - "Language of silence"