Bobbie Phillips
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Bobbie Phillips is an American television and film actress.
29 January 1972. Phillips moved to Hollywood in 1991 and began working in television soon after. Her first acting job was guest starring with Halle Berry
on the short lived Fox comedy They Came from Outer Space
. She continued to land roles in television and independent films from comedies to martial arts films; Phillips is a trained martial artist and performed most of her fighting and stunts in these films. On the television series, The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
(1998), Phillips played the dual role of Talon aka Hannah Foster. With this role, Phillips became the first female to play a crow on screen. In between The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
filming, Bobbie also showed off her martial arts abilities in a series of tele-films for Paramount Pictures. The first was Chameleon
. It was a followed by two sequel
s Chameleon II: Death Match, Chameleon 3: Dark Angel
.
Phillips appeared on numerous popular television shows such as The Hitchhiker, Stargate SG-1
, The X-Files
, Married... with Children
, Two Guys and a Girl
and Baywatch
. She was a regular on the first season of the 22nd People's Choice Awards
winner for "Favorite New TV Dramatic Series" Murder One
. Phillips received praise from Variety
for her role as Julie Costello.
Phillips had a small role in the controversial big screen Hollywood film Showgirls
. This credit is often mentioned on the box covers for her later films. She has starred in several small independent films and has appeared on stage as well. Prior to acting professionally, Phillips starred in several musicals. She performed as a child at the Dock Street Theater in her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. Another famous Dock Street alumni is Thomas Gibson
, also originally from Charleston. Phillips and Gibson later worked together acting in the television series Dharma & Greg
.
Phillips continued to perform in television sitcoms, dramas, and independent feature films up until her early retirement in 2003. Phillips' last film prior to retiring was aptly titled, Last Flight Out in which she starred as a missionary doctor.
Phillips is also a successful entrepreneur. She and her husband, Anthony, built a hotel from scratch, which after less than a year was named one of the "Best Hotels in the World" by Condé Nast Publications
. Anthony was her hairstylist on several films and television shows after meeting on the set of the film Die Abzocker - Eine eiskalte Affäre in 2000.
Phillips is also involved in animal rescue work around the world.
She has one son named Mark.
She appeared on the April 17, 2010 episode of the HGTV home design show Divine Design
, where it was disclosed that she had recently moved to her husband Anthony's home country of Canada with their three dogs.
Career
Born in Charleston, South CarolinaCharleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was made the county seat of Charleston County in 1901 when Charleston County was founded. The city's original name was Charles Towne in 1670, and it moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of the...
29 January 1972. Phillips moved to Hollywood in 1991 and began working in television soon after. Her first acting job was guest starring with Halle Berry
Halle Berry
Halle Berry is an American actress and a former fashion model. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming...
on the short lived Fox comedy They Came from Outer Space
They Came from Outer Space
They Came from Outer Space is an American science fiction comedy series that aired in syndication from October 1990 to March 1991. The series was created by Tom McLoughlin.-Synopsis:...
. She continued to land roles in television and independent films from comedies to martial arts films; Phillips is a trained martial artist and performed most of her fighting and stunts in these films. On the television series, The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven was a 1998 Canadian television series created by Bryce Zabel based on The Crow comic by James O'Barr starring Mark Dacascos in the lead role as Eric Draven, reprising the role originally played by Brandon Lee in the 1994 film The Crow...
(1998), Phillips played the dual role of Talon aka Hannah Foster. With this role, Phillips became the first female to play a crow on screen. In between The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven was a 1998 Canadian television series created by Bryce Zabel based on The Crow comic by James O'Barr starring Mark Dacascos in the lead role as Eric Draven, reprising the role originally played by Brandon Lee in the 1994 film The Crow...
filming, Bobbie also showed off her martial arts abilities in a series of tele-films for Paramount Pictures. The first was Chameleon
Chameleon
Chameleons are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of lizards. They are distinguished by their parrot-like zygodactylous feet, their separately mobile and stereoscopic eyes, their very long, highly modified, and rapidly extrudable tongues, their swaying gait, the possession by many of a...
. It was a followed by two sequel
Sequel
A sequel is a narrative, documental, or other work of literature, film, theatre, or music that continues the story of or expands upon issues presented in some previous work...
s Chameleon II: Death Match, Chameleon 3: Dark Angel
Chameleon 3: Dark Angel
Chameleon 3: Dark Angel is a UPN science fiction television movie that was broadcast in 2000.It stars Bobbie Phillips as Kam....
.
Phillips appeared on numerous popular television shows such as The Hitchhiker, Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich...
, The X-Files
The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
, Married... with Children
Married... with Children
Married... with Children is an American surrealistic sitcom that aired for 11 seasons that featured a dysfunctional family living in Chicago, Illinois. The show, notable for being the first prime time television series to air on Fox, ran from April 5, 1987, to June 9, 1997. The series was created...
, Two Guys and a Girl
Two Guys and a Girl
Two Guys and a Girl is an American sitcom created by Kenny Schwartz and Danny Jacobson. It ran on ABC from March 10, 1998 to May 16, 2001. 81 episodes were transmitted over four seasons....
and Baywatch
Baywatch
Baywatch is an American action drama series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, starring David Hasselhoff. The show ran in its original title and format from 1989 to 1999, sans the 1990-1991 season, of which it was not in production...
. She was a regular on the first season of the 22nd People's Choice Awards
22nd People's Choice Awards
The 22nd People's Choice Awards, honoring the best in popular culture for 1995, were held on March 10, 1996 at Universal Studios Hollywood, in Universal City, California. They were hosted by Brett Butler, and broadcast on CBS....
winner for "Favorite New TV Dramatic Series" Murder One
Murder One (TV series)
Murder One is an American legal drama series that first aired on the ABC network in the United States in 1995. The series was created by Steven Bochco, Charles H. Eglee, and Channing Gibson.-Premise:...
. Phillips received praise from Variety
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
for her role as Julie Costello.
Phillips had a small role in the controversial big screen Hollywood film Showgirls
Showgirls
Showgirls is a 1995 American drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring former teen actress Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, and Gina Gershon...
. This credit is often mentioned on the box covers for her later films. She has starred in several small independent films and has appeared on stage as well. Prior to acting professionally, Phillips starred in several musicals. She performed as a child at the Dock Street Theater in her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. Another famous Dock Street alumni is Thomas Gibson
Thomas Gibson
Thomas Ellis Gibson is an American actor who is perhaps best known for his roles as Daniel Nyland in the Medical drama series Chicago Hope, as Greg Montgomery in the comedy series Dharma & Greg, and as Supervisory Special Agent Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner in the highly-popular CBS drama, Criminal...
, also originally from Charleston. Phillips and Gibson later worked together acting in the television series Dharma & Greg
Dharma & Greg
Dharma & Greg is an American television sitcom that aired from September 24, 1997, to April 30, 2002.It starred Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson as Dharma and Greg Montgomery, a couple who married instantly on their first date despite being complete opposites...
.
Phillips continued to perform in television sitcoms, dramas, and independent feature films up until her early retirement in 2003. Phillips' last film prior to retiring was aptly titled, Last Flight Out in which she starred as a missionary doctor.
Personal life
Bobbie Phillips is known to a wide variety of audiences for her varied work. Some know her for her action roles, others for comedy, others for horror and science fiction. She is perhaps best recognized by her unique voice which sometimes shows a hint of her southern upbringing.Phillips is also a successful entrepreneur. She and her husband, Anthony, built a hotel from scratch, which after less than a year was named one of the "Best Hotels in the World" by Condé Nast Publications
Condé Nast Publications
Condé Nast, a division of Advance Publications, is a magazine publisher. In the U.S., it produces 18 consumer magazines, including Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, as well as four business-to-business publications, 27 websites, and more than 50 apps...
. Anthony was her hairstylist on several films and television shows after meeting on the set of the film Die Abzocker - Eine eiskalte Affäre in 2000.
Phillips is also involved in animal rescue work around the world.
She has one son named Mark.
She appeared on the April 17, 2010 episode of the HGTV home design show Divine Design
Divine Design
Divine Design is a Canadian interior design show produced by Fusion Television which airs on W Network in Canada and HGTV in the United States. It is broadcast on Thursdays, 9pm e/p and is hosted by Candice Olson, one of Canada's top designers...
, where it was disclosed that she had recently moved to her husband Anthony's home country of Canada with their three dogs.
Filmography
| Television | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Role | Notes | |
| 1991 | They Came from Outer Space They Came from Outer Space They Came from Outer Space is an American science fiction comedy series that aired in syndication from October 1990 to March 1991. The series was created by Tom McLoughlin.-Synopsis:... |
Mrs. Morely | ||
| 1991 | Parker Lewis Can't Lose Parker Lewis Can't Lose Parker Lewis Can't Lose is an American teen sitcom that originally aired on FOX from September 1990 to June 1993. During the last season, the series sported the simpler title Parker Lewis. The series was produced by Columbia Pictures Television and was strongly influenced by the feature film Ferris... |
Melinda | ||
| 1991 | Married with Children | Jill | 2 episodes | |
| 1992 | Matlock Matlock (TV series) Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of attorney Ben Matlock. The show originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC, where it replaced The A-Team, then from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC.The show's format was similar... |
Lisa Loomis | ||
| 1992 | Silk Stalkings Silk Stalkings Silk Stalkings is a TV crime drama originally shown on CBS in 1991 as part of the network's late-night Crimetime After Primetime programming package, and rebroadcast on the USA Network. After CBS ended the Crimetime experiment in 1993, the series ran exclusively on USA until its finale in the... |
Tessa Shaver | ||
| 1992 | Dark Justice Dark Justice The series began airing in 1991 and ran for three seasons finishing in 1993.Tagline: "Justice may be blind... but it can see in the dark."- Production and filming :... |
Lucy | ||
| 1993 | Back in Action | Helen | ||
| 1993 | TC 2000 | Zoey/TC 2000X | ||
| 1993 | The Bold and the Beautiful The Bold and the Beautiful The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987.... |
Rhonda | Role from: 1993-1994 | |
| 1993 | The Cover Girl Murders | Hetty Barnett | ||
| 1993 | Baywatch Baywatch Baywatch is an American action drama series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, starring David Hasselhoff. The show ran in its original title and format from 1989 to 1999, sans the 1990-1991 season, of which it was not in production... |
Kim | ||
| 1995 | The Watcher The Watcher (TV series) The Watcher is an American anthology drama series that premiered on UPN in January 1995, during the network's inaugural season.-Synopsis:Set in Las Vegas, the series stars rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot as "The Watcher", an omniscient narrator who watches the activities of others via surveillance monitors in... |
Lori Danforth | series regular/13 episodes | |
| 1995 | Murder One Murder One (TV series) Murder One is an American legal drama series that first aired on the ABC network in the United States in 1995. The series was created by Steven Bochco, Charles H. Eglee, and Channing Gibson.-Premise:... |
Julie Costello | series regular | |
| 1995 | The X-Files The X-Files The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s... |
Dr. Bambi Berenbaum | READER'S DIGEST AWARD "BEST GUEST ACTRESS" | |
| 1996 | The Cape | Lt.Cmdr. Barbara DeSantos | series regular/22 episodes | |
| 1997 | Stargate SG1 | Kynthia | ||
| 1999 | The Crow: Stairway to Heaven The Crow: Stairway to Heaven The Crow: Stairway to Heaven was a 1998 Canadian television series created by Bryce Zabel based on The Crow comic by James O'Barr starring Mark Dacascos in the lead role as Eric Draven, reprising the role originally played by Brandon Lee in the 1994 film The Crow... |
Hannah Foster/Talon | ||
| 2001 | Dharma & Greg Dharma & Greg Dharma & Greg is an American television sitcom that aired from September 24, 1997, to April 30, 2002.It starred Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson as Dharma and Greg Montgomery, a couple who married instantly on their first date despite being complete opposites... |
Anna | Travel Agent | |
| 2010 | Divine Design Divine Design Divine Design is a Canadian interior design show produced by Fusion Television which airs on W Network in Canada and HGTV in the United States. It is broadcast on Thursdays, 9pm e/p and is hosted by Candice Olson, one of Canada's top designers... |
Herself | ||
| Film | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1995 | Showgirls Showgirls Showgirls is a 1995 American drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring former teen actress Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, and Gina Gershon... |
Dee | |
| 1996 | Cheyenne Cheyenne Cheyenne are a Native American people of the Great Plains, who are of the Algonquian language family. The Cheyenne Nation is composed of two united tribes, the Só'taeo'o and the Tsétsêhéstâhese .The Cheyenne are thought to have branched off other tribes of Algonquian stock inhabiting lands... |
Cheyenne | |
| 1998 | Chameleon Chameleon Chameleons are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of lizards. They are distinguished by their parrot-like zygodactylous feet, their separately mobile and stereoscopic eyes, their very long, highly modified, and rapidly extrudable tongues, their swaying gait, the possession by many of a... |
Kam | |
| 1999 | Chameleon II: Death Match Chameleon II: Death Match Chameleon II: Death Match is a UPN science fiction television movie that was broadcast in 1999.It stars Bobbie Phillips as Kam.... |
Kam | |
| 2000 | Chameleon 3: Dark Angel Chameleon 3: Dark Angel Chameleon 3: Dark Angel is a UPN science fiction television movie that was broadcast in 2000.It stars Bobbie Phillips as Kam.... |
Kam | |
| 2000 | Die Abzocker - Eine eiskalte Affäre | Maya/Corinna | |
| 2003 | Weed Man | Candi | writer/co-director |
| 2004 | Last Flight Out | Dr. Anne Williams | |