Joaquin Phoenix ‘welcomed his first child with fiancée Rooney Mara a month ago and named the boy after his late brother River Phoenix.
It’s been four months since news spread that Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara were expecting their first child together — and, while neither has confirmed that, they have apparently welcomed a baby boy!
Phoenix dated his Inventing the Abbotts co-star Liv Tyler from 1995 to 1998 and South African model Topaz Page-Green from 2001 to 2005. Since late 2016, he has been in a relationship with actress Rooney Mara. In July 2019, it was confirmed that they are engaged. As of September 2020, they have a son together, named River after Phoenix’s late brother.
Director Victor Kossakovsky spilled the beans at the 2020 Zurich Film Festival after a screening of the film Gunda, on which Joaquin served as executive producer.
He slipped in the news during a Q&A over the weekend, after he was asked how he got the new dad involved in the film: ‘He just got baby by the way… A beautiful son called River.’
Joaquin, 45, and Rooney, 35, have not officially announced the birth of their firstborn, but they never confirmed their pregnancy in the first place.
He comes from a family of actors, including sisters Rain, 47, Liberty, 44, Summer, 41, and his late brother River, who tragically died of a drug overdose in October of 1993, at the age of 23.
River died at the peak of his career, with memorable roles in Stand By Me (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho (1991) already under his belt.
