Background
Phillips was born in Sydney, and attended Woollahra Public School with several other future actors, including Justine Clarke and Deni Hines, and then Street Catherine"s School, Waverley from 1984 to 1989.
Phillips was born in Sydney, and attended Woollahra Public School with several other future actors, including Justine Clarke and Deni Hines, and then Street Catherine"s School, Waverley from 1984 to 1989.
Phillips began her career by starring in the feature film Playing Beatie Bow when she was twelve years old. She later appeared in many Seven Network serials, including A Country Practice and Rafferty"s Rules. She left the series on 25 May 1990.
Phillips was sharing a house with Justine Clarke and began auditioning the week after Clarke had left the serial.
Phillips told a writer from Look-in that she liked to be kept busy on set. She explained that "people" were often left trying to find her because she was not where she should have been.
Phillips told Graeme Kay from BIG! that the role had taken up too much of her time and she preferred having a free schedule. She later starred in a number of the Kennedy Miller Productions in the 1980s.
She was cast in the American Broadcasting Company series G.P. before, at the age of 17, moving to London, England.
Aged 19, she was accepted into the Central School of Speech and Drama. She later starred in PorkChop Productions" first show, a production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. That led to her being appointed PorkChop"s full-time producer, which led her to develop material to stage at the Sydney Opera House.
Phillips produced Last Cab to Darwin for PorkChop Productions which was staged at the Opera House in Sydney and at the Black Swan State Company in Perth.
In 2000, Phillips appeared as a guest in the police series Water Rats where she played Eva Minton-Sykes, wife of Gavin Sykes until 2001. In 2009 she appeared in the third season of the series H2O: Just Add Water where she played Mistress
Taylor, a science teacher, until 2010. She joined the cast of Secrets & Lies where she played Vanessa Turner, the wife of the doctor Timothy Turner on 3 March 2014.
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On 5 July 1989, she premiered as a cast member of the popular series Home and Away, on which she played Aviva "Viv" Newton.