Arlyn Phoenix

Arlyn Sharon Phoenix (born December 31, 1944), commonly known as Heart Phoenix, is the mother of actors River Phoenix, Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, and Summer Phoenix. She is on the Board of Directors of The Peace Alliance, an organization which supports the creation of a United States Department of Peace. She was born Arlyn Sharon Dunetz in the Bronx, New York. Her parents were Jewish immigrants; her mother, Margaret (née Lefkowitz), from Hungary, and her father, Mayer, from Russia. She has two sisters, Rhoda and Merle. By the time Arlyn was born, the Dunetz family had become more 'culturally Jewish'; they celebrated Jewish holidays, but did not attend synagogue. Once out of school, she married a computer programmer,...