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Wendy Phillips

Highest Rated: 95% Midnight Run (1988)

Lowest Rated: 29% The Wizard (1989)

Birthday: Jan 2, 1952

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Wendy Phillips broke into TV playing the daughter of a global corporation on the short-lived CBS series "Executive Suite" (1976-77), then was the secretary to an unconventional detective on "The Eddie Capra Mysteries" (NBC, 1978-79). When she returned to series TV in 1986, it was in more high-brow material. Phillips played the eldest daughter of Richard Kiley, an ex-hippie who moved back in with her parents along with her two teen-age children, in the NBC miniseries "A Year in the Life," a role she reprised in the weekly series (1987-88). In 1989, she switched to sitcoms, playing the secretary Robert Guillaume was dating on "The Robert Guillaume Show" (ABC), one of the first interracial romances on TV. When that show failed to find an audience, Phillips moved on to "Falcon Crest" (CBS, 1989-90) as Gregory Harrison's sister. One of her best roles to date was as a widowed Catholic mother raising two children after World War II in the critically praised, but low-rated period drama "Homefront" (ABC, 1991-93). Exhibiting a slightly malevolent streak, she was cast as the murderous Lucille Richards on the primetime soap "Savannah" (The WB, 1996). Trading in machinations for a more wholesome image, Phillips segued to playing Gerald McRaney's wife in "Promised Land" (CBS, 1996-99). Phillips also has worked in TV longforms, beginning in 1975 with "Death Be Not Proud" (ABC) and "One of Our Own" (NBC). In 1994, she was in the ABC miniseries version of "Stephen King's 'The Stand'" and also that year played in two "MacShayne" TV-movies for NBC. Phillips had a pivotal role as the mother of a murder victim in the miniseries "A Season in Purgatory" (CBS, 1996).

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Highest rated movies

95% 87% Midnight Run
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84% 69% Bugsy
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29% 60% The Wizard
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Appearances
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Fraternity Row
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Heroine of Hell
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Nightmare in Pendragon's Castle
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A Season in Purgatory
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Matlock: The Court Martial
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Fast Company
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 17% Cool Air Unknown (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Heroine of Hell Margaret (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Season in Purgatory Luanne Utley (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play Babs Honeywell (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Savannah: Wedding Belle Blues Lucille Richards (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fast Company Paula Stone (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet MacShayne: Winner Takes All Hannah Foss (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet MacShayne: Final Roll of the Dice Hannah Foss (Character) - 1994
84% 69% Bugsy Esta Siegel (Character) $48.2M 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Appearances Marie Danzig (Character) - 1990
29% 60% The Wizard Christine Bateman (Character) $12.3M 1989
95% 87% Midnight Run Gail (Character) $36.3M 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Matlock: The Court Martial Paula Campbell (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nightmare in Pendragon's Castle Lacey Brown (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fraternity Row Betty Ann (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet One of Our Own Debbie Hinshaw (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet 60% Death Be Not Proud Mary Wilson (Character) - 1975

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 85% SEAL Team Linda (Guest Star) 2018
25% 47% Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders Unknown (Guest Star) 2016
82% 82% Shameless Professor Sacco (Guest Star) 2014
No Score Yet 90% The Mentalist Unknown (Guest Star) 2013
90% 83% Bones Abby Chevaleer (Guest Star) 2009
83% 84% The Closer Patricia Simmons (Guest Star) 2008
74% 90% Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip Shelley Green (Guest Star) 2006
No Score Yet 87% Ghost Whisperer Unknown (Guest Star) 2005-2006
No Score Yet 85% ER Mrs. Lambright (Guest Star) 2003
67% No Score Yet Homefront Anne Metcalf (Character) 1991-1993 2003
96% 73% Joan of Arcadia Unknown (Guest Star) 2003
27% No Score Yet Presidio Med Unknown (Guest Star) 2003
25% No Score Yet MDs Unknown (Guest Star) 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Family Law Unknown (Guest Star) 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Promised Land Claire Greene (Character) 1996-1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Touched by an Angel Unknown (Guest Star) 1996-1997
75% No Score Yet Savannah Unknown (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star)
1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Afterschool Special Unknown (Character) 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Commish Emily Sherman (Guest Star) 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Diagnosis Murder Unknown (Guest Star) 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Falcon Crest Lauren Daniels (Character) 1981-1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Year in the Life Anne Gardner Maxwell (Character) 1987-1988
No Score Yet 89% Murder, She Wrote Nancy Dalton (Guest Star) 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Matlock Unknown (Guest Star) 1987
No Score Yet 78% Amazing Stories Unknown (Character) 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Partners in Crime Shirley Hamner (Guest Star) 1984
No Score Yet 71% Taxi Heather (Guest Star) 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trapper John, M.D. Unknown (Guest Star) 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet CHiPs Unknown (Guest Star) 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet B.J. and the Bear Unknown (Guest Star) 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Executive Suite Unknown (Character) 1976-1977