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Four months after it was reported that Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara are expecting their first child, they have apparently welcomed a baby boy today, September 28.

While neither has confirmed the rumors, director Victor Kossakovsky shared the great news at a recent screening during the 2020 Zurich Film Festival.

He said that the actor wasn't in attendance to promote the film because “he just got a baby,” a beautiful son named River.

🚨 Viktor Kossakovsky 📽️, Gunda: He just had a baby Boy who's Called River. ( about Joaquin) pic.twitter.com/WuUISnuTsZ

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The name is a loving tribute to Joaquin's late brother, River Phoenix, who tragically died in 1993.

The actor also referenced River after receiving his Oscar for Best Actor earlier this year.

“When he was 17, my brother wrote this lyric, he said, 'Run to the rescue with love, and peace will follow',” he declared.

Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara originally met while filming the movie Her, in which the actor played a man in love with an operating system while Rooney played his ex-wife.

Their budding romance began after filming the movie Mary Magdalene in which he played Jesus and she starred as Mary Magdalene.

In an interview for Vanity Fair, the Hollywood actor confessed that he was convinced she despised him but later found out that the feeling was mutual.

He stated in the interview, “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.”

Congratulations to the couple!