Bijou Phillips

Born: April 1 1980
Where: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

The former model appears to be putting her notorious wildchild days behind her to concentrate on a film career with notable appearances in the likes of Bully.

This daughter of The Mamas and the Papas founder John Phillips and South African actress Genevieve Waite, she had an odd childhood, shifting from one drug-addled environment to another.

She was name-checked in many a gossip column long before making her acting debut after working as a model.

At the age of 13 she was the focus of a controversial Calvin Klein advertising campaign.

By age 15, she was well-known among big city partygoers for her daring, attention-grabbing stunts and had a brief but much publicized affair with much-older rocker Evan Dando when only 16.

In 1999 Phillips released her debut album I'd Rather Eat Glass and had her first onscreen role with a cameo in the music industry comedy Sugar Town.

She next took a starring role in James Toback's mostly ad-libbed 2000 feature Black and White.

Phillips was next seen as one of the "band aids", a group of girls who followed rock musicians around on tour in Almost Famous.

She then turned up as a teenage prostitute who runs afoul of the title character in Bully.

Recent work includes the role of a backpacker in the blood cult thriller Octane with Madeleine Stowe.