Michelle Phillips is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She gained fame as a member of the popular 1960s singing group The Mamas & the Papas and is the last surviving original member of the group.
Mother of Chynna Phillips , Austin Hines and Aron Wilson.
Grandmother of Jamison Baldwin.
Mother-in-law of actor William Baldwin.
Was married to Dennis Hopper for 8 days.
The wildly popular 1960 pop/folk group The Mamas and the Papas ("Monday, Monday" and "California Dreamin" were their biggest hits), comprised Michelle and her husband at the time, John Phillips , along with Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty. Michelle was temporarily kicked out of the group (replaced by Jill Gibson) after it was discovered she was having an affair with the other "Papa" , whom Cass had a crush on. However, the fans missed her and she was soon brought back, but the damage had been done and the group wasted no time in splitting up.
Former stepmother of actress Mackenzie Phillips.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 (as a member of The Mamas and the Papas ).
Ranked #23 on VH1s 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
Grew up partly in Mexico City where her father attended college on the GI Bill.
Was good friends with the Charles Manson victims Sharon Tate , Abigail Folger , Jay Sebring and Voytek Frykowski.
When The Mamas and the Papas were in the Bahamas and could not afford the flight back to the United States, she won 17 straight shoots at a craps/table, coming out with enough money to buy first-class airplane tickets for everybody.
Sang at the funeral of Denny Doherty , whose death made her the only surviving member of The Mamas and the Papas.
Born to Joyce Leon, ne Poole, an accountant, and Gardner Burnett Gilliam, a merchant marine.
When she was 5 and her sister was 6, their mother died and they and their father moved to Mexico City.
Staunch liberal Democrat.
Joined the cast of "Knots Landing" in 1987, as Anne, however, Donna Mills was already the shows "main villainous" at the time, hence, she rejoined the cast after Millss departure.
[asked what word comes to mind when she looks into a mirror] Lucky.
