Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara have welcomed their first child.
Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky announced the couple’s happy news during a Q&A at the 2020 Zurich Film Festival on Sunday, following a screening of the documentary Gunda, which was executively produced by Phoenix.
The director explained why the Oscar winner was absent, saying, “He just got a baby, by the way, his name was … a beautiful son called River, so he cannot promote it now.”
The couple has named the baby after Phoenix’s late older brother, actor River Phoenix, who died in 1993 at age 23 from a drug overdose.
On May 18, it was reported that Phoenix and Mara were expecting their first child. The pregnancy news came nearly a year from their engagement. Mara was first spotted with a large diamond ring in May 2019.
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The couple is not the only celebrity dealing with pregnancy during the lockdown. Ed Sheeran and his wife Cherry Seaborn, Katy Perry and her fiancé Orlando Bloom, as well as former Glee star Lea Michele and her husband Zandy Reich, have welcomed their first child.
Furthermore, American singer-actress Mandy Moore and her husband American singer-songwriter Taylor Goldsmith are expecting their first child together.
Emma Roberts, the niece of Julia Roberts is also expecting her first child with her boyfriend, Troy actor Garrett Hedlund.
EGOT winner singer/songwriter John Legend and his wife, model Chrissy Teigen are also expecting their third child.
Meanwhile, singer Ashlee Simpson and her husband Evan Ross are expecting their second child.
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