Phillips was born in
Evanston, Illinois, the youngest of six children in a
Roman Catholic family. She is the daughter of William Phillips, an
insurance broker and executive, and his wife, Ann. She has five siblings: four older brothers and one older sister. Phillips graduated from
Lake Oswego High School and attended
Brooks College in
Long Beach, California. This led to her being signed by
Elite Modeling Agency in 1982, who characterized her as a "perfect-ten package," earning as much as $2,000 a day. which was finalized the following Following the divorce, neither party commented publicly on their relationship until Springsteen's autobiography
Born to Run where he describes the marriage from his point of view.
Acting career Phillips continued her acting career during and after the marriage. She appeared in
Odd Jobs (1986),
Sweet Lies (1988), and
Seven Hours to Judgment (1988), and starred opposite
Chevy Chase in
Fletch Lives and
John Ritter in
Skin Deep both in 1989. Two years later, she accepted the role of Frankie Reed, the business-oriented character on
Sisters; it became her best-known role. She left the show at the end of its fifth season in 1995, returning for its final episode in 1996. She then briefly returned to movies, appearing in
Big Bully (1996),
Colin Fitz Lives! (1997),
Allie & Me (1997), and the made-for-TV disaster film
Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997).
1997–present Phillips stopped acting in 1997 and has rarely been in the public eye since. In 2001, she was interviewed on an episode of the biographical documentary series
Intimate Portrait that profiled her
Sisters co-star
Sela Ward. In 2014, she reunited with Ward and her other
Sisters co-stars,
Swoosie Kurtz and
Patricia Kalember, for
Entertainment Weekly. The reunion was documented on
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