LC database, Aug. 22, 1997 (hdg.: Phoenix, Joaquin)
Internet movie database, August 20, 1997 (Joaquin Phoenix; actor; sometimes credited as: Leaf Phoenix; real name: Joaquin Raphael Phoenix; b. Puerto Rico, Oct. 28, 1974)
Wikipedia, Oct. 1, 2012 |b (Joaquin Rafael Phoenix; American film actor; Phoenix was born Oct. 28, 1974 as Joaquín Rafael Bottom in Río Piedras, a sector of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1978 the family changed their last name to "Phoenix"; around this time Joaquin had begun calling himself "Leaf"; Leaf became the name he would use as a child actor; at fifteen, he changed it back to Joaquin)
