"Academy Awards: 61st Annual" Martha Plimpton & River Phoenix 1989/**I.V.
Caption: "Academy Awards: 61st Annual" Martha Plimpton & River Phoenix 1989/**I.V.
Actor, Soundtrack
Born: August 23, 1970
Star sign: Virgo
Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
Known for: Stand by Me (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), My Own Private Idaho (1991), The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Source: IMDB
River Phoenix was born River Jude Bottom in Madras, Oregon. His mother, Arlyn (Dunetz), a Bronx-born secretary, and his father, John Bottom, a carpenter, met in California in 1968. They worked as itinerant fruit pickers, and later joined the Children of God religious group (John was originally Catholic, while Arlyn was born Jewish). By the time ...