Michelle Gilliam Phillips was born on Holly Michelle Gilliam; June 4,1944 and is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and model.
42 Facts About Michelle Phillips
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Michelle Phillips rose to fame as a vocalist in the musical quartet the Mamas and the Papas in the mid-1960s.
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Michelle Phillips's voice was described by Time magazine as the "purest soprano in pop music".
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Michelle Phillips later established a successful career as an actress in film and television beginning in the 1970s.
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Michelle Phillips is the last surviving member of the band.
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Michelle Phillips went on to appear in a number of films throughout the remainder of the 1970s, including Ken Russell's Valentino, playing Natacha Rambova, and the thriller Bloodline.
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Michelle Phillips released her only solo album, Victim of Romance, in 1977.
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Michelle Phillips later had supporting roles in the comedy film Let It Ride and the psychological thriller Scissors.
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Michelle Phillips appeared in independent films in the 2000s, with supporting parts in Jane White is Sick and Twisted and Kids in America and had recurring guest roles in the television series That's Life and 7th Heaven.
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Phillips was born Holly Michelle Gilliam on June 4,1944, in Long Beach, California, the second child of Joyce Leone, a Canadian-born accountant, and Gardner Burnett Gilliam, a merchant mariner from San Diego.
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Michelle Phillips's mother suffered heart problems stemming from a childhood bout with rheumatic fever, including subacute endocarditis, and died of a related brain hemorrhage when Phillips was five years old.
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Michelle Phillips spent the following six years in Mexico, where she attended public schools and became fluent in Spanish.
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Michelle Phillips resided with her father and sister in the Roma Sur district of Cuauhtemoc.
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At the age of 13, Michelle Phillips returned to the United States with her father and sister, settling again in Los Angeles.
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Michelle Phillips attended several high schools in Los Angeles, including Alexander Hamilton High School and Marshall High School.
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In mid-1961, at age 17, Michelle Phillips relocated to San Francisco to live with her friend Tamar Hodel and began working as a model.
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Michelle Phillips appeared in a billboard advertisement for Lucky Lager beer and in print ads for Cole bathing suits.
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Michelle Phillips divorced his first wife and married Michelle on December 31,1962, when she was 18 years old.
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The Michelle Phillips newlyweds relocated to New York City, where they began writing songs together and formed the Mamas and the Papas in 1965.
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Michelle Phillips co-wrote some of the band's hits, including "California Dreamin'", which appears on the group's debut album, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears.
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In June 1967, Michelle Phillips performed with the group at the Monterey Pop Festival in Monterey, California, an event organized by John Michelle Phillips and Lou Adler.
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In 1969, while still a member of the Mamas and the Papas, Michelle Phillips acted in Gram Parsons's science fiction film Saturation 70 alongside Nudie Cohn, Anita Pallenberg and Julian Jones, the five-year-old son of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones.
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Michelle Phillips claimed she got cast by pretending to be half Cherokee, like her character.
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Michelle Phillips was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance.
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Michelle Phillips had a cameo appearance in a party scene with then-boyfriend Warren Beatty in Shampoo.
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On television, Michelle Phillips played the mermaid princess Nyah in three episodes of Fantasy Island and Leora Van Treas in Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All, starring Stacy Keach in the title role.
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Michelle Phillips appeared in TV miniseries such as Aspen and The French Atlantic Affair.
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Michelle Phillips had a leading role in the television horror film The Covenant opposite Judy Parfitt and Jose Ferrer.
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In 1986, Michelle Phillips wrote an autobiography, California Dreamin': The True Story of the Mamas and the Papas, released just weeks after her former husband's autobiography, Papa John.
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Michelle Phillips has appeared in the role until the series' 1993 conclusion.
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On December 2,1987, Michelle Phillips was arrested in Amarillo, Texas, for marijuana possession after being pulled over for speeding.
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Michelle Phillips was a passenger in the car with boyfriend Geoffrey Tozer, and the marijuana was discovered after police searched the couple's vehicle.
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Also in late 1987, Michelle Phillips sang backup vocals on Belinda Carlisle's studio album Heaven on Earth, as well as its number-one single "Heaven Is a Place on Earth".
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Michelle Phillips had a supporting role in the thriller Scissors, opposite Sharon Stone, playing the politician wife of a therapist treating a mentally unstable woman.
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Michelle Phillips had the lead role in the 1993 television thriller film Rubdown, playing a woman at the center of a divorce plot in which her husband pays a masseur to have an affair with her.
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Michelle Phillips played Laura Collins in the television drama film No One Would Tell, and supplied the voice of Raven, a television host, on Ralph Bakshi's HBO animated series Spicy City.
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Between 2001 and 2004, Michelle Phillips appeared on television in a recurring role on The WB drama 7th Heaven as Lily Jackson, sister of family matriarch Annie Jackson Camden.
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In 2009, Michelle Phillips appeared at the annual TV Land Awards for the 30th-year celebration of Knots Landing.
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Michelle Phillips appeared in a minor role in the Norwegian historical film Betrayal, which chronicles the German occupation of Norway.
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In 2019, Michelle Phillips appeared as an interview subject in Andrew Slater's Echo in the Canyon, a documentary on the Laurel Canyon music scene of the 1960s.
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Michelle Phillips has been noted for her soprano vocals, and was once deemed by Time as "the purest soprano" in pop music.
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In 2008, Michelle Phillips advocated legalization of marijuana, crediting it with helping her quit smoking cigarettes: "When I really, really, really wanted a cigarette, I would take a puff of pot, and the cravings would go away," she said.