JOAQUIN
PHOENIX

Joaquin Phoenix is an actor born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on 28 October 1974. Over a career that began in childhood, he has played historical figures, fictional outsiders and characters whose inner lives are difficult to read at first glance.

After early television work and a film appearance in SpaceCamp, Phoenix returned to adult roles in films including To Die For. His performance as Commodus in Gladiator (2000) brought him an Academy Award nomination for supporting actor.

In Walk the Line (2005), he portrayed musician Johnny Cash and received an Oscar nomination for leading actor. He was nominated again for The Master (2012), playing a troubled veteran whose relationship with a charismatic leader drives the drama.

His portrayal of Arthur Fleck in Joker (2019) earned the Academy Award for leading actor at the 2020 ceremony. The film follows Fleck’s experience of isolation and his transformation into the comic-book character.

Across these films, his performances move between large public personas and private uncertainty. The contrast gives viewers different ways to approach characters who often struggle to find a place in the worlds around them.