Mackenzie Phillips

Laura Mackenzie Phillips (born November 10, 1959 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American actress and singer, known primarily for her roles in movies, soap operas and television.

The naturally brunette-headed Phillips skyrocketed her career in the 1970s and 1980s, where she's best known as Bonnie Franklin's rebellious yet boy-crazed daughter, Julie Cooper Horvath, on One Day at a Time (a role she played from 1975 to 1980 and from 1981 to 1983), and in the late 1990s and 2000s as Cara DeLizia's budding rock singer and single mother, Molly Phillips, on So Weird.

She is the daughter of The Mamas and the Papas' lead singer John Phillips and Susan Adams (aka Suzy January), a socialite. She was also the stepdaughter of group member Michelle Phillips, half-sister to Bijou Phillips and Chynna Phillips (all three have different mothers).

She was named in honor of her father's friend, songwriting collaborator and performing partner, Scott Mckenzie.

As a child, the biggest names in pop culture visited her house such as Tommy James from the band The Shondells, Neil Diamond, John Sebastian and Barry McGuire.

Mackenzie began to use drugs at an early age. She began to smoke marijuana and use LSD at the age of twelve, and was taught how to shoot up heroin by her father at the age of eighteen. [citation needed] Shortly after turning 18, she was aggressively seduced by Mick Jagger, visiting in the Phillips home, who told her, "I've been waiting to do this since you were ten years old." [1]

Her first major acting role was the part of "Carol" in American Graffiti (1973). In 1975, she started playing "boy crazy" Julie Cooper, the elder of two daughters, on the TV sitcom One Day at a Time. This was her most famous role.


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