Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara have welcomed their first child, a baby boy. The couple have named their son after Joaquin's brother River, who tragically died in 1993 from a drug overdose.
Rooney, 35, had previously not confirmed her pregnancy but had been seen with a baby bump over the summer. The happy news was announced by Victor Kossakovsky at a Q&A session at the 2020 Zurich Film Festival following a screening of Gunda, a film in which Joaquin, 45, worked on as executive producer.
Apologising for Joaquin absence at the festival, Kossakovsky said: "He just got a baby, by the way, his name was… a beautiful son called River, so he cannot promote it now." It's thought that baby River was born a month ago.
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