Joaquin Phoenix And Fiancee Rooney Mara Welcome First Child Together

Joker star actor Joaquin Phoenix has welcomed his first child with his fiancee and Oscar-nominated actress Rooney Mara, Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky confirmed. 

Phoenix met his wife during the filming of Her in 2013 but that did not culminate in a relationship until 2017 when they made it public at the Cannes Film Festival during which the actor won the best actor award for his role in You Were Never Really Here.

Announcing the birth of newly-born at Zurich Film Festival on Sunday, Victor confirmed the Oscar-winning actor just welcomed a baby and revealed the gender and name telling the audience that he just welcomed "A beautiful son called River."

"He just got baby by the way," Victor said while answering questions on the actor who worked with him in his documentary Gunda.

Victor also added that the couple has been self-isolating together since the coronavirus pandemic and he has been communicating with him via his email for the past seven months.