Phillips' was born the middle child of three girls, to an Air Force career father and stay at home mom. Constantly being uprooted allowed her to personally transform as situations arose. As a youngster, she learned how to be flexible and the attention grabber within her family and amongst her friends. Constantly spearheading havoc often found her in trouble with the adults at various intervals.When her artistic mother, a skater and dancer asked a very young Phillips' what she wanted to be when she grew up, she responded "Lucille Ball". She was also enamored and inspired by another leading female comedic actress, Carol Burnett, and in addition enjoyed all of the British Carry On Gang films.While growing up, Phillips' artistic talent matured and she worked in a variety of mixed mediums, including painting and sculpting, but quickly became restless and yearned to express more. An avid athlete in high school, she competed in Soccer and excelled in Track and Field where her Relay Team brought home the Regional Title.It was during her teen years, that Phillips' developed an interest in film and television. Following high school, she attended the University of Ottawa,with a brief stint studying Creative Advertising to quell family concerns where she found herself writing little movies in her copy, thus returning to graduate with a BA in Theatre.She has gone on to work with Tony Goldwyn and opposite Tom Wilkinson and Blythe Danner in The Last Kiss, with Hal Holbrook and Naveen Andrews in Mira Nair's, My Own Country, with Oscar-winning director Malcolm Clarke in Dirty Trick, and had the pleasure of playing a fun, devious soap-opera actress in a short scripted by Governor General Prize winner Matt Cohen.In addition to acting, Phillips' has written and produced her own short films, completed a feature script, and has several new projects in the works. "And I can see there's a novel in there in the recesses of my mind that was waiting for the right time to come out".A little known fact, that although uncredited for her critical role, Phillips' was the hand that shot Chucky, in Bride of Chucky.