Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix welcome baby boy named River after his late brother
OSCAR winner Joaquin Phoenix and his fiancée Rooney Mara have welcomed a baby boy, called River.
The joyful news was revealed by close friend and director Viktor Kossakovsky.
Viktor let the good news slip while promoting his film Gunda at the Zurich Film Festival on which serves as executive producer.
The director explained the actor's absence saying: "He just got a baby, by the way, his name was… a beautiful son called River, so he cannot promote it now."
The happy couple named their first son together after Joaquin's late brother River.
Joaquin paid tribute to the Stand By Me actor River Phoenix after the acclaimed star died in 1993 when he was just 23 back.
Last year and Rooney got engaged after three years of dating.
Speaking about the low-profile couple, sources told : "They don’t really like to go out.
"They mainly just like to be with each other as the two of them. They’re in their own bubble."
The couple initially met while working on the 2013 film, Her.
However, they didn't start dating until they reunited on the set of Mary Magdalene in 2016, making their red carpet debut in 2017 at the Cannes Film Festival.
In a 2019 interview, the told "She’s the only girl I ever looked up on the internet.
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"We were just friends, email friends. I'd never done that. Never looked up a girl online."