My Take
Mackenzie Phillips is one of those figures whose talent always felt overshadowed by everything else swirling around her life, and that's genuinely a shame. She was magnetic as a teenager in American Graffiti — holding her own in a George Lucas film packed with future legends — and then turned Julie Cooper into the beating heart of One Day at a Time for years. Being the daughter of John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas is its own wild origin story, and the chaos that came with that legacy clearly left marks. Her 2009 memoir High on Arrival was raw and polarizing, but it showed a kind of unflinching honesty that's rare. I root for her — she's someone who kept showing up to work through genuinely difficult circumstances, and that counts for something.
Overview
Laura Mackenzie Phillips (born November 10, 1959) is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of seminal folk-rock musician John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas and his first wife Susan Adams. Her best-known roles include Carol Morrison in the film American Graffiti, Julie Cooper Horvath on the sitcom One Day at a Time, Molly Phillips on Disney Channel's supernatural series So Weird and Barbara "Barb"…
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Mackenzie Phillips
- Name (Japanese)
- マッケンジー・フィリップス
- Reading
- まっけんじー・ふぃりっぷす
- Born
- November 10, 1959 (age 66)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Boar
- Origin
- Alexandria, Virginia, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer / television actor / film actor / actor / musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.