Joaquin Phoenix

Phoenix is a strict vegan, and will not wear costumes made from animal products. He was appointed CBE in 1956 and became a Companion of Honour in 2001. Night Shyamalan's Signs, and stoic Lucius Hunt in Shyamalan's The Village. Scofield played Mark Van Doren, father of Charles Van Doren, the man at the center of the scandal, and received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. 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. In 1994 he starred in Quiz Show, a film directed by Robert Redford about the quiz show scandal in the United States in the 1950s. He changed his name from "Leaf" back to his birth name "Joaquin". He has won several awards for his stage appearances, including a Tony for the original stage version of A Man for All Seasons, and was Salieri in the original stage production of Amadeus in 1979.

Joaquin was reluctant to re-enter the world of acting again but, he did so at the insistence of his friends. Although his range is considerable, he has tended to be selective, preferring classical roles to those which might have won him more popular acclaim. 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 began his stage career in 1940, and was soon being compared with Laurence Olivier. 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. Scofield is not well-known to cinema-goers, despite having won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in A Man for All Seasons (1966). 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). David Paul Scofield (born January 21, 1922) is an English actor who was born in Sussex.

His parents contracted an agent who eventually got the five children on commercial spots. His mother started working as a secretary for NBC and his father became a landscaper. The family moved to Los Angeles when Joaquin was 6 years old. 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 parents were members of the Children of God missionaries, and encouraged their children (Joaquin was the third of five) to develop their creative instincts. He often plays supporting roles as conflicted characters plagued with self doubt. Joaquin Rafael Phoenix (born October 28, 1974 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an actor in USA, also known as Leaf Phoenix. Space Camp (1986).

Russkies (1987). Parenthood (1989). To Die For (1995). U-Turn (1997).

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).