. . . Where Are They Now? . . .Hello fans, Actress Mackenzie Phillips is best known for playing Julie Cooper in One Day at a Time. What is she doing now? Let's find out...
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(Answer at the bottom)*Mackenzie PhillipsLearn More About Mackenzie Phillips on Celebrity Nooz BIRTH DATE: November 10, 1959 in Alexandria, Virginia
CLAIM TO FAME: I think most people over 30 know Mackenzie from her role as Julie Cooper in 'One Day At A Time."
FAMILY LIFE: Keith Levenson (June 2005-present)
Michael Barakan (February 1997-2000) (divorced) 1 Son Shane
Jeff Sessler (15 August 1979-1981) (divorced)
One of her stepmothers was Michelle Phillips.
Daughter of John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas musical group.
Half sister of Bijou Phillips, Chynna Phillips and Tamerlane Phillips. Sister of Jeffrey Phillips.
INFO: Mackenzie was first known for her role in the 1973 hit movie 'American Graffiti'. Two years later, she got the role that changed her life in the sitcom "One Day At A Time". The show was an instant success, and everything was going well until the third season was launched, when she was arrested for cocaine possession and lied about the incident on her uncredited appearance on "Dinah and Her New Best Friends".
During the run of the 1979-1980 season, Mackenzie started to fall off the deep end. The producers didn't know what was wrong she started getting tired and showing up late for rehearsals. On the set she was incoherent and the producers gave her a six week leave of absence. In 1980, she was fired from the series, went to rehab, then returned in the fall of 1981. Sadly, in 1983, she fell asleep during a rehearsal. Producer Patricia Fass Palmer told her that she had to take another drug test, but she refused and left.
TRIVIA: Has been in rehab several times for drug and alcohol addiction.
Sang in her father's music group, the Mamas and the Papas, when it made a comeback.
Skipped a grade in elementary school.
Mackenzie was named in honor of her dad's friend and songwriting/performing partner, Scott MacKenzie, with whom he played prior to the Mamas & the Papas in a band called the Journeymen.
Childhood best friends of Lisa Coleman, musician in Prince and the Revolution, and in Wendy & Lisa (with 'Wendy Melvoin').
While shooting "So Weird"(1999) in Vancouver, Mackenzie was the legal guardian of co-star Patrick Levis until he turned 18.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, she attempted and eventually succeeded in getting over her drug problem with the help of her father, who was also a recovering addict.
Was asked to play a substance abuse counselor on Beverly Hills 90210 in 1994 (when Luke Perry's character was suffering from drug addiction) and on Guiding Light in 1996 (when she tried to help Cynthia Watros' character, Annie Dutton, through her drug problem).
WHERE IS SHE NOW: Surprising many, Mackenzie cleaned herself up and has remained a very employed actress.
She got another TV series playing a budding rock singer and single mother on 'So Weird.'
She also did theater and played Lily St. Regis in a national tour of "Annie" in 2005.
In 2009, Release of her book, "High on Arrival: A Memoir" by MacKenzie with Hilary Liftin.
In 2011, she won an Honorary Best Actress award at the closing night awards gala of the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, Canada for her performance as Sharon in the 2010 independent film Peach Plum Pear. While in Toronto, she was interviewed on Canada Am, ET Canada, and The Marilyn Denis Show .
She has recently appeared on the TV series Interns: The Web Series and Criminal Minds.
WRITE TO MACKENZIE PHILLIPS: Mackenzie Phillips
18240 McCormick Street
Tarzana, CA 91356-3611
* CREDITS: 2013 She Made Them Do It (TV movie) (filming)...Jamie
2012 Criminal Minds (TV series)...Ellen Russel
The Pact (2012) ... Ellen Russel
2012 Interns: The Web Series (TV series)...CEO
Accepted (2012)
2011 Peach Plum Pear...Sharon
2011 Hercules Saves Christmas...Helen Dunn
2009 Radio Needles (TV movie)...Tonya Taylor
2007 Cold Case (TV series)...Sheila Swett
That Woman (2007)
2005 The Jacket...Nurse Harding
2004 7th Heaven (TV series)...Allison Davies
Why Not Me? (2004)
1996-2004 NYPD Blue (TV series)...Lorraine Stuval / Mary Donaldson
Fish Out of Water (2004)
Sorry, Wong Suspect (1996)
2004 Without a Trace (TV series)...Theresa Caldwell
Lost and Found (2004)
2003 The Division (TV series)...Carol Johnson
Thus with a Kiss I Die (2003)
2002 ER (TV series)...Leslie Miller
Damage Is Done (2002)
2002 Double Teamed (TV movie)...Mary Burge
2001 Crossing Jordan (TV series)...Elaine Stahler
The Dawn of a New Day (2001)
1999-2001 So Weird (TV series)...Molly Phillips
2001 Kate Brasher (TV series)...Tracy Del Rey
Tracy (2001)
2000 The Outer Limits (TV series)...Boo Weston
Down to Earth (2000)
1999 When...Catherine Brown
1998 Viper (TV series)...Heidi Rosen
The Full Frankie (1998)
1998 Chicago Hope (TV series)...Valerie Boyd
Risky Business (1998)
1998 True Friends...Connie
1997 Walker, Texas Ranger (TV series)...Ellen Simms
1997 Caroline in the City (TV series)...Donna Spadaro
Caroline and the Singer (1997)
1996 Guiding Light (TV series)...Rachel Sullivan
1995 Melrose Place (TV series)...Maureen Dodd
1994 Beverly Hills, 90210 (TV series)...Counselor Ellen Marks
1986 Kate's Secret (TV movie)...Deyna
1985 Murder, She Wrote (TV series)...Carol Needom
Murder in the Afternoon (1985)
1975-1983 One Day at a Time (TV series)...Julie Cooper / Julie Cooper Horvath
1982 Love Child...J.J.
1978-1982 The Love Boat (TV series)...Allison Scott / Rachel Johnson
1980 The Silent Lovers (TV movie)...Lillian Gish
1979 The Incredible Hulk (TV series)...Lisa Swan
1979 More American Graffiti...Carol / Rainbow
1979 Fast Friends (TV movie)...Susan
1976 Eleanor and Franklin (TV movie)...Eleanor Roosevelt, age 14
1975 Mary Tyler Moore (TV series)...Francie
1975 Baretta (TV series)...Mindy
1975 Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins...Frisbee
1975 Miles to Go Before I Sleep (TV movie)...Robin Williams
1974 Movin' On (TV series)...Chessie
Roadblock (1974)
1973 American Graffiti...Carol
1973 Go Ask Alice (TV movie)...Doris (as Mackinzie Phillips)
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Born: 02/24/1938 Died: 01/24/2012
Marla Gibbs - ALIVE
Born: 06/14/1931
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Born: 03/12/1931 DIED: 10/10/1980
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Albert O. Hirschman, 97, German-born American economist.
B. B. Nimbalkar, 92, Indian cricketer.
Ravi Shankar, 92, Indian musician.
Walter Francis Sullivan, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Richmond (1974-2003), liver cancer.
Galina Vishnevskaya, 86, Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist.
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Alkis Alkaios, 63, Greek poet and lyricist, cancer.
Antonio Cubillo, 82, Spanish politician, founder of Canary Islands Independence Movement.
Lisa Della Casa, 93, Swiss soprano.
Jacques Jullien, 83, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Beauvais (1978-1984), and Archbishop of Rennes (1985-1998).
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Shoichi Ozawa, 83, Japanese actor and folk art researcher.
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John Small, 66, American football player (Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions).
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