Joaquin Phoenix Just Gave an Unexpected Update on His Relationship With Rooney Mara—Look Back at His Dating Life

Rooney Mara (2016 – present)

Joaquin Phoenix met Rooney Mara on the set of Spike Jonze’s Her. He believed that she hated him at first, but she was just shy. They ended up as email buddies, and Joaquin recounted in an interview with Vanity Fair, “She’s the only girl I ever looked up on the internet. We were just friends, email friends. I’d never done that. Never looked up a girl online.” They later starred together in Mary Magdalene.

They quietly got engaged in 2019, and Rooney gave birth to their son River (named after Joaquin’s brother) in 2020. “It doesn’t feel like a two-actor house because I didn’t work for the first three and a half years we were together,” the actress said of raising their son together on Joaquin’s sister River’s podcast LaunchLeft. “Basically since we’ve been together, I only worked one or two times and one was really small and short. It feels like a creative household, we’re constantly talking about creative things.”

Joaquin seemingly confirmed that he married Rooney in an appearance on the Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso podcast. He ultimately found the inspiration for the speech while he “was talking with my mom and my wife.” He later mentioned Rooney by name. The couple is also expecting their second child together at the Berlin Film Festival.

Allie Teliz (2013)

Allie Teliz was dating Joaquin Phoenix from 2013 to 2014. According to a source to Us Weekly at the time, “Girls are just fascinated with him. They seek him out. There is a lot going on there, as you can imagine…It’s not the typical girl that wants to be with him.”

Topaz Pagegreene (2001 – 2005)

Joaquin Phoenix was in a four-year relationship with model Topaz Pagegreene. The two kept their relationship pretty low-key.

Rumored: Amelia Warner (2000)

Joaquin Phoenix was rumored to have a fling with Amelia Warner in 2000.

Rumored: Anna Paquin (2000)

Joaquin Phoenix was rumored to date Buffalo Soldiers co-star Anna Paquin in 2000.

Liv Tyler (1995 – 1998)

They were one of Hollywood’s most hidden It couples of the 90s. Joaquin Phoenix dated Liv Tyler after they starred in Inventing The Abbotts. On how they kept it secret from the film cast and crew, Liv recounted to The Morning Call, “[Joaquin] would sit at the other end of the makeup trailer and say, ‘Oh, my God, [Liv’s] such a babe,’ and talk to the makeup girl. It would be like, ‘I could never get her,’ and she believed him.”

The two called it quits in 1998, but Liv is still cool with her ex. “I consider Joaquin and all of his sisters to be like family,” she told Elle in 2015. “We were so young when we were together, like 18 to 21. He was my first love. So he’s a huge part of even my sense of humor. Like, [my son] Milo will say something and I’ll say, ‘Wow, that’s something that Rain said! That’s something Joaquin said!’ Because they were such a big part of those years when you’re just starting out on your own.