Michelle Phillips

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Michelle Phillips in 2002

Holly Michelle Gilliam Phillips (born  June 4, 1944 in Long Beach , California ) is an American actress and singer . She is the last remaining founding member of the musical group The Mamas and the Papas .

Music and acting

Michelle Phillips 1967

Michelle Phillips was born Holly Michelle Gilliam in Long Beach. She grew up in Mexico City but soon returned to California. At the age of 17 she met John Phillips , who was still married at the time, and began an affair with him. After his divorce, the two married in late 1962. She joined Phillips' folk rock group The New Journeymen , founded in 1964 and renamed The Mamas and the Papas in 1965 . As a singer in the group, her career rose sharply. The first LP , If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (1966), already contained the world hits Monday, Monday and California Dreamin ' . Further successes followed with the pieces I Saw Her Again Last Night, Dream a Little Dream of Me and Dedicated to the One I Love . In the latter, Michelle Phillips took over the part as lead singer. In 1966, John Phillips briefly released Michelle from the band after she had affairs with her bandmate Denny Doherty and with Gene Clark of the Byrds .

In June 1967, The Mamas and the Papas performed at the legendary Monterey International Pop Festival ; a year later the band members went their own way when the problems among each other could no longer be resolved. Michelle then devoted herself more to acting, her first and to date only solo album she brought out in 1977 under the title Victim of Romance .

After her career as a singer, Michelle Phillips made a name for herself as an actress. She made her cinema debut in 1971 with a small appearance in the film The Last Movie , which was directed by her short-term husband Dennis Hopper . She had her first substantial role in the John Dillinger biopic Jagd auf Dillinger , in which she played his girlfriend Evelyn Frechette . She received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance , which led to other major cinema roles in the 1970s. She played Natacha Rambova in a 1977 biopic about Rudolph Valentino and in 1979 she was one of the international star cast of the thriller Blood Trail . She later appeared in the television series Under the California Sun , in which she played the role of Anne Matheson, for several years . For this she received the 1991 Soap Opera Digest Award , a US audience award.

In 2004 she was involved as a background singer for the album California by Wilson Phillips , the music project co-founded by her daughter Chynna. Since the turn of the millennium, she took on supporting roles in a few movies and had a recurring role in the series A Heavenly Family . She also made a name for herself politically by criticizing the Iraq war and demanding that George W. Bush be charged with war crimes, as well as her commitment to legalizing cannabis .

family

Michelle Phillips was married three times, initially to John Phillips from 1962 to 1968; their daughter Chynna Phillips has been a singer in the women's trio Wilson Phillips since 1989 . In 1970 she married the actor Dennis Hopper , the marriage lasted only eight days. Her last marriage was from 1978 to 1982 with Robert Burch.

From 1982 Grainger Hines was her partner, with the actor she has two sons, including Austin Devereux Hines. From the late 1990s until his death in 2017, she was in a relationship with Steven Zax, a cosmetic surgeon. Michelle Phillips was also dating actors Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty in the 1970s . She is also the mother-in-law of actor William Baldwin , who is married to her daughter Chynna.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1968: Monterey Pop Festival
  • 1971: The Last Movie
  • 1973: Hunt for Dillinger (Dillinger)
  • 1974: The Death Squad (TV movie)
  • 1974: California Kid ( The California Kid , Movie made for TV)
  • 1975: Miracle (short film)
  • 1977: Valentino
  • 1977: Aspen (miniseries, one episode)
  • 1978: The Users (TV movie)
  • 1979: blood trail (Bloodline)
  • 1979: Victor Charlie calls Lima Sierra (The French Atlantic Affair, miniseries, episode)
  • 1980: Sam Marlow, private detective (The Man with Bogart's Face)
  • 1981: Prisoners of the Beasts (Savage Harvest)
  • 1982: Moonlight (TV movie)
  • 1983–1986: Hotel (TV series, seven episodes)
  • 1984: Secrets of a Married Man (TV movie)
  • 1986: American Anthem
  • 1987: A Murder Marriage (Assault & Matrimony, TV movie)
  • 1987–1993: Under the California Sun (Knots Landing, TV series, 78 episodes)
  • 1988: Spaceship Enterprise: The Next Century (Star Trek: The Next Generation, TV series, episode 1x24 Encounter with the Past)
  • 1989: Pineapple and Blue Beans (Trenchcoat in Paradise, TV movie)
  • 1989: Everything to Win (Let it Right)
  • 1991: Scissors
  • 1991: Keep on Running
  • 1993: Beret - The Law of Vengeance (Josua Tree)
  • 1994, 2000: Diagnosis: Murder (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1998–2000: The Magnificent Seven ( TV series, three episodes)
  • 1999: Sweetwater (TV Movie)
  • 2001-2004: A Heavenly Family (7th Heaven, three episodes)
  • 2005: Kids in America
  • 2005: Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
  • 2006: Unbeatable Harold
  • 2009: Svik
  • 2016: Good Fortune
  • 2018: Echo In The Canyon

Web links

Commons : Michelle Phillips  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ youtube
  2. ↑ WorldCantWait1: Michelle Phillips - Impeach Bush. October 17, 2007, accessed July 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Michelle Phillips Thinks Legalizing Marijuana Would Stimulate Economy - New York Magazine - - Nymag. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Michelle Phillips Biography (1944-) . In: filmreference.com . Retrieved October 21, 2010.
  5. ↑ Michelle Phillips Is a Mama Again, and Grainger Hines Is a Papa, but Don't Bill Them as Mr. and Mrs .: People.com . In: people.com . Retrieved October 21, 2010.
  6. ↑ Steven Zax Obituary - Los Angeles, CA | Los Angeles Times. August 28, 2018, accessed July 5, 2019 .
  7. ↑ California Dreamgirl . In: vanityfair.com . Retrieved October 21, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Phillips, Michelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Phillips, Holly Michelle Gilliam (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Beach , California , United States