Career
She first attracted attention for being the first wife of Bruce Springsteen. She is also best known for her portrayal of Francesca "Frankie" Reed on the television drama series Sisters. Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
Julianne was the youngest of six children in a Roman Catholic family.
Phillips is a graduate of Lake Oswego High School and Brooks College. Early career She began work as a model in Manhattan in the early 1980s.
By 1982 she was represented by the Elite Modeling Agency, which characterized her as a "perfect ten package," earning as much as $2,000 a day. She then moved to Los Angeles, where she appeared in a.38 Special music video.
This led to her first notable acting roles, in 1984"s made-for-television movies Summer Fantasy and the Robert Urich vehicle His Mistress.
She also appears at the end of the Bruce Springsteen music video "Glory Days". Marriage and divorce Acting career Phillips continued her acting career during and after the marriage. She appeared in Odd Jobs (1986), Sweet Lies (1988) and Seven Hours to Judgment (1988), and starred opposite Chevy Chase in Fletch Lives and John Ritter in Skin Deep, both in 1989.
Two years later she began the role of Frankie Reed, the business-oriented character on the popular television drama, Sisters.
lieutenant became her best-known role. She left the show at the end of its fifth season in 1995 but returned for its final episode in 1996.
She then briefly returned to movies, appearing in Big Bully (1996), Colin Fitz Lives! (1997), Allie & Maine (1997) and the made-for-television disaster film Tidal Wave: Number Escape (1997). 1997–present Phillips has not acted in either television or film roles since 1997.
She resides in Los Los Angeles
According to a United States of America Today profile in 2006, she spent time in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and El Salvador. In 2014, Phillips returned to the public again when she was reunited with former Sisters co-stars Sela Ward, Swoosie Kurtz, and Patricia Kalember for a special edition issue of Entertainment Weekly. The reunion was documented on the National Broadcasting Company morning news program Today.