Moving on
In the early 2000s, at the time when Phoenix’s career was at a rise, he met his second serious girlfriend, South African model Topaz Page-Green. The model moved to New York City from Johannesburg to promote her career, and that’s where the couple had met.
Despite trying to keep their privacy, the couple occasionally made red-carpet appearances. They dated for four years – Phoenix’s longest relationship at this point – until they parted ways. However, they stayed friends afterwards, and rumor has it the two are still close friends. It was during their time together, in 2005, that Phoenix received a role of a lifetime – the character of country legend Johnny Cash, in the biopic Walk the Line, after the singer himself approved Phoenix for the role after seeing some of his works.