Mackenzie Phillips
Biography
Mackenzie Phillips is an American actress and singer who started out as a teenager, forming a band with schoolmates before a casting agent spotted her at a performance and sent her to audition for George Lucas's American Graffiti (1973). She won the part of Carol Morrison at 12. She became a star in the 1970s as Julie Cooper on the long-running sitcom One Day at a Time, and from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s she toured as a singer with a re-formed version of The Mamas and the Papas. She co-starred as rock star Molly Phillips on the Disney Channel series So Weird and appeared in the Disney Channel movie Double Teamed (2002), with guest spots on ER, Without a Trace, 7th Heaven and Cold Case. She won an honorary best actress award at the 2011 Female Eye Film Festival for Peach Plum Pear, and later played Barbara Denning on Orange Is the New Black.
67years old
Turns 68 on November 10in 364 days
- Born Alexandria
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
- Also credited as Laura Mackenzie Phillips
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 41 years1973 to 2014
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Big break
Mackenzie Phillips was spotted by casting agent Fred Roos while performing with a band she formed at age 12, which led to an audition for George Lucas's American Graffiti that she won.
First role
Phillips was 12 when she played Carol Morrison in American Graffiti, a girl John Milner picks up by accident. While filming, producer Gary Kurtz served as her legal guardian under California state law.
Mackenzie Phillips movies on Netflix
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The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Charles Martin Smith appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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