Bijou Lilly Phillips Masterson is an American actress, model and singer. The daughter of musician John Phillips and Geneviève Waïte, she began her career as a model. Phillips made her singing debut with I’d Rather Eat Glass (1999), and since her first major film appearance in Black and White (1999.
In FOX’s sitcom Raising Hope (2010–2014), Phillips played the title character’s biological mother, and a serial killer sentenced to death. Until its finale, she appeared in a total of seven episodes of the series.
In 2010 and 2012, she guest-starred in episodes of the police procedural television series Hawaii Five-0 and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and in 2011 she appeared in the video for Broken Social Scene’s song “Sweetest Kill”. Phillips has not acted since her last appearance in Raising Hope, opting to focus on her family and health.
Phillips dated Sean Lennon at some point in the mid-2000s and she became the muse and subject matter of his 2006 album Friendly Fire.
In 2004, Phillips began dating Danny Masterson; the couple met at a poker tournament in Las Vegas. They are both Scientologists. The couple announced their engagement in March 2009. They were married on October 18, 2011, in a private castle in Ireland. On February 14, 2014, Phillips gave birth to their daughter.
Phillips has starred with Masterson in several films and in a 2011 episode of Fox’s Raising Hope.
On February 17, 2017, Masterson revealed that Phillips had been suffering from kidney disease for five years. She was born with small kidneys and had been battling the disease by living a stress-free life, eating a vegan diet, and getting dialysis. She suffered from a blood infection and was in need of a transplant. On April 7, 2017, she received a kidney transplant.