Joaquin Phoenix

Phoenix is a strict vegan, and will not wear costumes made from animal products. The commercial includes a comic turn in which Rooney's backside is briefly exposed, and the pulling of the ad is considered more fallout from Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" during Super Bowl XXXVIII a year earlier. Night Shyamalan's Signs, and stoic Lucius Hunt in Shyamalan's The Village. In January 2005, Rooney made headlines when a commercial he made for a medication was pulled from broadcast during Super Bowl XXXIX. He portrayed a troubled teen in Gus Van Sant's To Die For, and has earned positive reviews for adult roles as Commodus in Gladiator (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), a priest in Quills, washed-up baseball player Merrill Hess in M. He has five sons and four daughters. He changed his name from "Leaf" back to his birth name "Joaquin". He was married and divorced seven times (including to actresses Ava Gardner and Martha Vickers) before marrying his current wife, January Chamberlin, in 1978.

Joaquin was reluctant to re-enter the world of acting again but, he did so at the insistence of his friends. He also appeared in the documentary That's Entertainment III. Joaquin came back to the public light under tragic circumstances—he was the person that dialled 9-1-1 when his brother River suffered a fatal drug overdose outside Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room. He continued to be busy in stage and television work throughout the 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the acclaimed Sugar Babies stage play with Ann Miller beginning in 1979, starring in a long-running TV series based on The Black Stallion, touring Canada in a dinner theatre production of The Mind with the Naughty Man in the mid-1990s, and playing The Wizard in a stage production of The Wizard of Oz with Eartha Kitt. He made his big screen debut in the interstellar romp Space Camp (1986), and his first starring role in the drama Russkies (1987), and went on to establish himself as a child actor in Parenthood (1989), before deciding to withdraw from acting for a while and move to Mexico with his father. He was awarded an Academy Juvenile Award in 1938 and a lifetime achievement Oscar in 1983. Joaquin's first acting stints were guest appearances on two television shows with his brother River, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1982) and Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia (1984). In the 1960s Rooney returned to theatrical entertainment, but he kept on accepting film roles, frequently in undistinguished movies, but also including better work in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) and The Black Stallion (1979).

His parents contracted an agent who eventually got the five children on commercial spots. The Mickey Rooney Show, also known as Hey Mulligan, appeared on NBC for 39 episodes during 1954 and 1955. His mother started working as a secretary for NBC and his father became a landscaper. He appeared in a number of indifferent films, including Words and Music in 1948 which paired him for the last time with Garland, and one final Andy Hardy film in the late 1950s. The family moved to Los Angeles when Joaquin was 6 years old. After his return from the service Rooney's career slumped. Since his other siblings changed their names to match their earth monikers, "River"; "Rain" (or "Rainbow"); "Liberty" and "Summer", Joaquin followed and changed his name to "Leaf". His fame peaked in World War II with a string of successful musicals with Judy Garland, including the Oscar nominated Babes in Arms (1939) as well as more serious roles in films such as The Human Comedy (1943) and National Velvet (1944).

His parents were members of the Children of God missionaries, and encouraged their children (Joaquin was the third of five) to develop their creative instincts. Rooney's successful role as Andy Hardy in A Family Affair (1937) led to fourteen further films featuring that character from 1938 to 1958. He often plays supporting roles as conflicted characters plagued with self doubt. His first starring role was in Hoosier Schoolboy (1937) with Edward Pawley playing his father. Joaquin Rafael Phoenix (born October 28, 1974 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an actor in USA, also known as Leaf Phoenix. In 1934 he signed to MGM and was educated at the studio's School for Professional Children. Space Camp (1986). He legally changed his name to Mickey Rooney in 1932.

Russkies (1987). (During this period Rooney once met Walt Disney, who Rooney would later claim named Mickey Mouse after Rooney's character.). Parenthood (1989). He moved into film in 1927, making his name with a series of over forty silent two-reel comedies (1927 to 1933) where he was the Toonerville Trolley cartoon character, Mickey McGuire. To Die For (1995). Rooney was born into a vaudeville family. U-Turn (1997). Joe Yule, Jr. (born September 23, 1920), better known as Mickey Rooney is an American film actor.

Inventing the Abbotts (1997). 8 MM (1998). Clay Pigeons (1998). Return to Paradise (1998).

The Yards (2000). Quills (2000). Gladiator (2000). Signs (2002).

Brother Bear (voice) (2003). Buffalo Soldiers (2003). Ladder 49 (2004). The Village (2004).

Hotel Rwanda (2004).