Phillips in 2007, photo by s_bukley/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Bijou Lilly Phillips
Place of Birth: Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.
Date of Birth: April 1, 1980
Ethnicity: Irish, English, possibly other
Bijou Phillips is an American actress, model, socialite, and singer. She is the daughter of singer John Phillips (John Edmund Andrew Phillips) and actress, singer, and model Geneviève Waïte. Her father had Irish and English ancestry. Her mother was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Her half-siblings are actress Mackenzie Phillips and singer and actress Chynna Phillips. Bijou is married to actor and disc jockey Danny Masterson, with whom she has a daughter.
Bijou’s paternal grandfather was Claude Andrew Phillips (the son of John Phillips and Anna Moran). Claude was born in New York. John was born in Canada, to Irish parents, Thomas Phillips and Marcella Mercy Burgess. Anna was born in New York, to Irish parents.
Bijou’s paternal grandmother was Edna Gertrude Gaines (the daughter of Edmund Franklin Gaines and Zora Gertrude Hardgrave). Edna was born in Mexico, to American parents. Edmund was the son of Charles William Gaines and Martha Isabell Black. Zora was the daughter of Jasper Newton Hardgrave and Winnie Jane Steele.
Bijou’s father was said to have partial Cherokee Native American ancestry. It is not clear if this ancestry has been verified/documented.
Sources: Genealogies of Bijou Phillips (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
https://gw.geneanet.org
Bijou’s paternal grandfather, Claude Andrew Phillips, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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