Summer Phoenix
American actress (born 1978)
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- Summer Phoenix (born Summer Joy Bottom , December 10, 1978) is an American actress and musician.
- Early life Phoenix's mother, Arlyn Sharon (née Dunetz), was born in New York, to Jewish parents of Hungarian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent.
- Career Phoenix was a child actor, working with agent Iris Burton along with her brothers and sister at the age of two, and went on to have guest roles in Murder, She Wrote , Growing Pains (as a not-very-close friend of Ben Seaver), Swamp Thing , and Airwolf .
- Phoenix later appeared in Wasted , The Laramie Project , SLC Punk!
- She played leads in Esther Kahn (2000) and Suzie Gold (2004).
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WikipediaSummer Phoenix (born Summer Joy Bottom, December 10, 1978) is an American actress and musician. She is the youngest sibling of actors River, Rain, Joaquin, and Liberty Phoenix.
Phoenix's mother, Arlyn Sharon (née Dunetz), was born in New York, to Jewish parents of Hungarian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent. Her father, John Lee Bottom, was from California and has English, German, and French ancestry.
Phoenix was a child actor, working with agent Iris Burton along with her brothers and sister at the age of two, and went on to have guest roles in Murder, She Wrote, Growing Pains (as a not-very-close friend of Ben Seaver), Swamp Thing, and Airwolf. She appeared in the TV movie Kate's Secret and in Russkies, playing the younger sister of real-life brother Joaquin. Phoenix later appeared in Wasted, The Laramie Project, SLC Punk!, Dinner Rush, The Believer, and The Faculty. She played leads in Esther Kahn (2000) and Suzie Gold (2004).
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