Bijou Phillips is an American actress, model and singer. She became famous as a model at an early age, after starting to engage in music and acting. In total, she took part in thirty films and series, since 2013 she has not been removed. Released one album and two promo singles as a singer.
Childhood and youth
Bijou Phillips was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, in the family of a famous musician, member of the popular folk rock band The Mamas & the Papas John Phillips and model from South Africa Genevieve Vaut. Since childhood, she began to engage in modeling activities, at the age of thirteen she appeared on the cover of the Italian edition of the famous Vogue magazine, and also participated in the Calvin Klein brand advertising campaign.
Biography Bijou Phillips is quite typical of the social elite of the United States of those times. At the age of fourteen, she dropped out of school and moved to her own apartment in downtown New York. At this time, she developed problems with alcohol and drugs.
Actress career
In 1999, Bijou Phillips finally left her modeling career and released a music album called I'd Rather Eat Glass (I'd rather eat glass), thereby expressing my attitude to the model’s career.
In the same 1999, the girl made her film debut. She played one of the roles in the film "Black and White" directed by James Toback, where in addition to her, Robert Downey Jr., Jared Leto, Ben Stiller, Mike Tyson, Claudia Schiffer and Elijah Wood also starred. The film received mixed reviews from critics and failed at the box office, but Phillips's acting work was mostly praised.
A year later, the actress played a small role in Camron Crowe's musical drama "Almost Famous." In the film, Bijou Phillips appeared in the role of one of the girlfriends of the heroine Kate Hudson. The film received excellent reviews from critics and several nominations for the Oscar.
In 2001, Phillips starred in the crime drama by cult independent director Larry Clarke Sadist. In the following years, she appeared in several not very successful horror films, and also voiced one of the heroines of the GTA computer game: San Andreas. In 2005, she co-starred in the thriller Crazy.
After that, the acting career of Biju Phillps did not develop very well, mainly she starred in low-budget horror films or independent films that film critics did not like too much. At the beginning of this decade, the girl began to appear more often in TV shows, playing guest roles in the shows "Law and Order" and "Hawaii 5.0". In 2010, she became a member of the cast of the "Raising Hope" sitcom, appeared in seven episodes. After 2013, she did not appear on the screens.
