Mackenzie Phillips

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.

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

Occupation

singer / television actor / film actor / actor / musician

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%82%B9

Tags

• Virginia
• singer
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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