Mackenzie Phillips
Laura Mackenzie Phillips is an American actress and singer. She gained stardom in the 1970s when she played boy-crazy teenager Julie Cooper on the long-running television show One Day at a Time. In 1999, Phillips co-starred with Cara DeLizia in the Disney Channel series So Weird, playing a fictional rock star named Molly Phillips. Phillips appeared as Barbara Denning in multiple episodes of Netflix original Orange Is the New Black.
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Laura Mackenzie Phillips is an American actress and singer. She gained stardom in the 1970s when she played boy-crazy teenager Julie Cooper on the long-running television show One Day at a Time. In 1999, Phillips co-starred with Cara DeLizia in the Disney Channel series So Weird, playing a fictional rock star named Molly Phillips. In 2018, Phillips appeared as Barbara Denning in multiple episodes of Netflix original Orange Is the New Black. Phillips won an Honorary Best Actress award on March 20, 2011, at the closing night awards gala of the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, for her performance as Sharon in the 2010 independent film Peach Plum Pear.
She has been married twice: first to rock group manager Jeffrey Sessler, son of Freddie Sessler ; then to rock guitarist Michael Barakan – known professionally as Shane Fontayne. She has one child, son Shane BarAKan, a musician. Phillips has had a lifetime troubled by drug abuse. On August 27, 2008, she was arrested by the Los Angeles Police on possession of cocaine and heroin after she went through airport security screening. She pleaded guilty to one felony count of cocaine possession, and sentenced to a drug rehabilitation program. She appeared on the third season of Celebrity Rehab, which aired in January and February 2010.
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