Bijou Phillips Parents: Meet Genevive And John Phillips

May 2024 · 4 minute read

Bijou Phillips parents-American actress, singer & model, Bijou Lilly Phillips Masterson was born on April 1, 1980, in Greenwich, Connecticut in the United States of America.

Who are Bijou Phillips’ parents?

Bijou Phillips was born to Geneviève Waïte and John Phillips. She has one brother, Tamerlane, and three half-siblings; Mackenzie, Jeffrey, and Chynna. 

Who is Geneviève Waïte?

Geneviève Waïte is the mother of Bijou Phillips and her brother, Tamerlane Bijou. She was a model, singer, and actor from South Africa. The title character in the 1968 movie Joanna is her most well-known acting performance. In the early 1970s, she served as a model for photographer Richard Avedon, who took several pictures of her for Vogue.

Who is John Phillips?

John Phillips is the father of Bijou Phillips. He was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was the leader of the vocal group the Mamas & the Papas and remains frequently referred to as Papa John Phillips.

Bijou Phillips career

In a small role in the independent drama Sugar Town (1999), Phillips made her acting debut. The same year, she appeared in James Toback’s drama Black and White with Robert Downey Jr., Jared Leto, Brooke Shields, and Elijah Wood as an Upper East Side girl seeking to blend in with the black hip-hop culture.

In Cameron Crowe’s 2000 semi-biographical musical drama Almost Famous, Phillips co-starred with Kate Hudson. Four Academy Award nominations were obtained for the successful movie. Phillips appeared in two independent coming-of-age movies in 2001.

She portrayed the devoted friend of a young woman in a prep school in 1980s New York City in Tart alongside Dominique Swain and Melanie Griffith. Phillips was one of the few interesting actors in the movie, according to PopMatters, “thanks to yet another fearless performance”.

She portrayed one of several young adults in South Florida who conspired to kill a common friend who had sexually, physically, and mentally tortured them for years in Bully, a film based on the 1993 murder of Bobby Kent.

The movie had a mixed bag of reviews, but renowned reviewer Roger Ebert was a noteworthy fan and gave it four stars out of four. The Hollywood Reporter named her one of 2002’s “Shooting Stars of Tomorrow” based on her performance in the movie.

In the 2003 thriller Octane, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Phillips co-starred with Mischa Barton as a member of an odd cult of teenage criminals.

She starred alongside Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger as the nanny of an author’s young daughter in The Door in the Floor (2004), a drama with strong sexual undertones that was adapted from John Irving’s book A Widow for One Year.

In 2007, Phillips played the publisher’s girlfriend in the independent horror movie The Wizard of Gore. Additionally, she worked on three movies with Lauren German, whose first was the comedy-drama Spin, which was about seven people at a well-known Los Angeles nightclub.

As one of three American female art students in Rome who are led to a Slovak village where they are kidnapped and taken to a facility where wealthy clients pay to torture and kill individuals, Phillips played one of these students in Hostel: Part II, the follow-up to Hostel (2005).

Three of the four independent feature films in which Phillips starred in 2009 starred Danny Masterson. In the romantic comedy Wake, which was her first release of the year, she portrayed an emotionally isolated contemporary lady who meets a man who is grieving his fiancée at a funeral.

In the 2010–2014 sitcom Raising Hope on FOX, Phillips portrayed the biological mother of the main character, a serial killer who had been given the death penalty.

She was a part of seven different episodes of the show. She had guest appearances in episodes of Hawaii Five-0 and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2010 and 2012, and she also made an appearance in the music video for Broken Social Scene’s song “Sweetest Kill” in 2011.

Source: www.Ghgossip.com

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