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Bijou Phillips (born April 1, 1980) is
an American film actress, former fashion model and
singer. She is currently working on her second album.
Phillips has appeared in several films, such as Bully,
The Door in the Floor, Havoc and Tart.
Early life: Bijou Phillips was born in Greenwich,
Connecticut, and is the daughter of John Phillips of The
Mamas and the Papas and his then-wife Geneviève Waïte,
a South African model. She also is the half-sibling of
Mackenzie Phillips, Jeffrey Phillips and Chynna
Phillips. Her older brother is Tamerlane Phillips. The
name "Bijou", which is French for
"jewel," was taken from the song
"Bijou" by Lambert, Hendricks and Ross.
Phillips had a tumultuous childhood, and began modelling
at an early age. She has appeared on Maxim ads, Stuff
ads, and several Calvin Klein ads. She has also appeared
on the cover of Vogue, Stuff, Interview, Playboy,
People, Detour, Nylon, Paper, 944, and Missbehave
magazines. In 1996 she appeared in the video for the
Sublime song "Wrong Way", portraying Annie.
Film career: In 1999, Phillips made a small
appearance in the film Sugar Town as a girl wanting an
autograph. That same year, Phillips was given a role in
Black and White as Charlie. In 2000, she was given a
role in the hit Almost Famous as Estrella Starr. In
2001, director Larry Clark cast her in Bully, a film
version of a true story about a brutal teenage murder in
Florida in 1993.
An oddly striking young woman with a somewhat squeaky
voice from a tumultuous celebrity family with a host of
infamous exploits checkering her own past, Bijou
Phillips was name checked in many a gossip column long
before making her acting debut.
An actress and singer-songwriter with a
frequently changing look most often topped with blonde
close-cropped hair, Phillips got her start as a model,
and counted among her credits a stint at age 13 in a
controversial Calvin Klein advertising campaign.
This daughter of The Mamas and the Papas founder John
Phillips and South African model/actress/artist
Genevieve Waite had an odd childhood, shifting from one
drug-addled environment to another.
By age 15, she was well-known among big
city partygoers for her daring, attention-grabbing
stunts and had a brief but much publicized affair with
much-older rocker Evan Dando when only 16. Phillips had
earned quite a reputation, and was known before long as
the girl most likely to shock.
In 1999 Phillips released her debut album "I'd
Rather Eat Glass" and had her first onscreen role
with a cameo in the Alison Anders/Kurt Voss music
industry comedy "Sugar Town". Now the
performer had work of her own to address, and was clear
in interviews that the wild life she had reveled in
previously was behind her.
She next took a starring role in James
Toback's mostly ad-libbed 2000 feature "Black and
White", starring as Charlie, an Upper East Side
rich girl who appropriates African-American hip-hop
lifestyle along with her similarly privileged friends.
The film's daring opening scene featured her in an a
menage-a-trois in Central Park with rapper Power and
actress Kim Mutalova. Phillips was next seen as one of
the "band aids", a group of girls who followed
rock musicians around on tour in "Almost
Famous" (2000) and then turned up as a teenage
prostitute who runs afoul of the title character in
"Bully" (2001).
Later that year, she had starring roles in Tart and Fast
Sofa. She later starred in Octane, the critical hit The
Door in the Floor, Pancho's Pizza, Havoc, and Venom. She
also has many roles in upcoming films such as What We Do
Is Secret, Dark Streets, The Wizard of Gore, You Are
Here and Hostel: Part II. Currently, she is starring in
a remake shooting in Bulgaria of the 1974 Larry Cohen
movie It's Alive, playing the part of the mother of a
murderous mutant newborn.
Music career: At the age of 17, she was granted a
record deal with Almo Sounds and ended her modeling
career; her debut album was titled I'd Rather Eat Glass,
a sentiment that expressed her feelings about her former
profession. In 2005, Phillips continued to act while she
recorded tracks for her second album. |
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