1. Bijou Phillips made her singing debut with I'd Rather Eat Glass, and since her first major film appearance in Black and White, she has acted in Almost Famous, Bully, The Door in the Floor, Havoc, Hostel: Part II, and Choke.
36 Facts About Bijou Phillips
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Bijou Phillips was born on April 1,1980, in Greenwich, Connecticut, and is the daughter of John Bijou Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas and his third wife, Genevieve Waite, a South African model, artist, and actress.
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Bijou Phillips is the youngest of Phillips's children; she has one brother, Tamerlane, and three half-siblings.
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Bijou Phillips lived there on and off, making extended visits with her parents, who had both acquired houses in the area.
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Bijou Phillips's father won custody when she was in third grade, and she moved with him to Lloyd Harbor, a village of the Town of Huntington, Long Island.
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At 14, Bijou Phillips left school and moved into her own apartment with a housekeeper, just off Fifth Avenue.
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Bijou Phillips claimed she lost her virginity to rock singer Evan Dando when she was 15 and he was about 27 or 28.
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Bijou Phillips was on the cover of Interview magazine when she was 13.
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Bijou Phillips became an image model for Calvin Klein and appeared in several advertising campaigns in which adolescents showed white underwear.
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Bijou Phillips collaborated with a number of artists when writing songs for the album, including Eric Bazilian, Greg Wells, Dave Bassett, Howard Jones and Jill Cunniff.
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Bijou Phillips made her film debut in a brief role of the independent drama Sugar Town.
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Bijou Phillips appeared with Kate Hudson in Cameron Crowe's semi-biographical musical drama Almost Famous.
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Bijou Phillips was the cover model for the April 2000 issue of Playboy magazine, posing nude in that issue.
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PopMatters found Bijou Phillips to be one of the only intriguing actors in the film, "thanks to yet another fearless performance".
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In 2003, Bijou Phillips starred alongside Mischa Barton as a member of a bizarre cult of young criminals in the thriller Octane, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Bijou Phillips voiced the character Helena Wankstein, one of the optional in game girlfriends in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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Bijou Phillips starred with Anne Hathaway in the crime drama Havoc as a spoiled socialite.
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Bijou Phillips appeared as an ill-fated high school senior in the slasher film Venom, produced by Kevin Williamson.
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In 2007, Bijou Phillips starred in the independent horror film The Wizard of Gore, as the girlfriend of a magic magazine's publisher.
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Bijou Phillips collaborated with actress Lauren German in three films, the first of which was the comedy drama Spin, about seven people at a popular Los Angeles nightclub.
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In Hostel: Part II, which served as a sequel to Hostel, Bijou Phillips starred as one of three American female art students in Rome who are directed to a Slovak village, where they are kidnapped and taken to a facility in which rich clients pay to torture and kill people.
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Bijou Phillips claimed that her torture sequence, which entails her being scalped by a power saw, required around forty-five setups.
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Bijou Phillips received critical acclaim for her portrayal; Phil Gallo for Variety found her performance to be "striking" and stated that her character "lights up in a unique way whenever she's in Crash's company or simply talking about him".
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In 2008, Bijou Phillips appeared in a documentary about the Hotel Chelsea called Chelsea on the Rocks, directed by Abel Ferrara.
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Bijou Phillips starred, opposite Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston, as a milkmaid in the well-received black comedy Choke, based on the Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name.
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In 2009, Bijou Phillips had starring roles in four independent feature films, three of which were opposite Danny Masterson.
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Dread Central, in its review for the film, noted: "Bijou Phillips Philips is undoubtedly the star here, jumping into her role in what is admittedly just a piece of schlock cinema with great aplomb".
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In FOX's sitcom Raising Hope, Bijou Phillips played the title character's biological mother, a serial killer sentenced to death.
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Bijou Phillips appeared in a total of seven episodes of the series.
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Bijou Phillips has not acted since her last appearance in Raising Hope, opting to focus on her family and health.
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Bijou Phillips dated Sean Lennon in the mid-2000s and became the subject matter of his 2006 album Friendly Fire.
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In 2004, Bijou Phillips began dating actor Danny Masterson and the two were married in October 2011.
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On February 14,2014, Bijou Phillips gave birth to their daughter.
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Bijou Phillips starred with Masterson in several films and in a 2011 episode of Fox's Raising Hope.
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Masterson revealed in February 2017 that Bijou Phillips had been suffering from kidney disease for five years.
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Bijou Phillips was born with small kidneys and suffered from a blood infection and was in need of a transplant, for which she received one in April 2017.