- Title: 'Joker' actor Joaquin Phoenix turns 50 on October 28
- Date: 25th October 2024
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE - SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 )(REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** ACTOR JOAQUIN PHOENIX ON RED CARPET / PHOENIX AND "JOKER" DIRECTOR AND CO-WRITER TODD PHILLIPS ON RED CARPET SINGER AND ACTRESS LADY GAGA AND PHOENIX POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE - DECEMBER 10, 2014) (REUTERS) ACTRESS
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Oscar award winning actor Joaquin Phoenix, best known for his role in "Joker," turns 50 on Monday (October 28).
A strict vegan and advocate for the environment, Phoenix was born to missionary parents who travelled through Central and South America before settling in Los Angeles, where he became a child actor.
Publicity averse and intense, Phoenix has a reputation for completely inhabiting characters that have ranged from country singer Johnny Cash in "Walk the Line," to Jesus Christ in "Mary Magdalene" and an impressionable drifter who enters a cult in "The Master."
Phoenix, known for playing brooding or emotionally troubled characters, dropped more than 50 pounds (22 kg) to play Arthur Fleck, an emaciated and isolated loner who becomes one of the world's best known comic book villains in "Joker."
The role led him to win his first Oscar in 2020 as best actor for his terrifying performance, crowning an awards season that has seen him sweep every major prize for his role in the standalone origin story of Batman's archenemy.
The sequel, "Joker: Folie a Deux," saw Phoenix opposite Lady Gaga, picking up where the original movie ended, with the comic-book baddie Joker locked up in a high security prison awaiting trial for multiple murders.
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