Early life and education

Philips was born Gina Consolo in North Miami Beach, Florida. She attended the University of Pennsylvania but dropped out half way through her senior year (only one class away from her degree) in order to pursue acting. However, they allowed her to walk through graduation with the rest of her graduating class since she was only one class shy. Philips is known for her recurring roles on David E. Kelley's Ally McBeal as Sandy Hingle and Boston Public as Jenna Miller. She has also made guest appearances on Star Trek: DS9, Sliders, ER, CSI, Medium and Monk.

Career

She got her first supporting film role in Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare. It aired on the Fox Network on March 7, 1995. In 1996, Philips had a small role in Unforgivable as the role of Tammy, the daughter of an abusive father. The film premiered on April 30, 1996 on CBS and received little to no critical acclaim. While In 1997, Philips played her first lead role in Born Into Exile as Holly a 14-year-old runaway. The film received generally positive reviews.Variety was exceptionally positive about the film, praising the story, the characters, the cinematography and the acting performances.

In 2001, Philips was cast as the second lead in the 2001 horror film Jeepers Creepers. The film received mixed reviews from critics, however received positive awards from audiences. The film was a commercial success, opening in 2,944 theaters and took in a domestic gross of $37,904,175; it later made $21,313,614 internationally, making a total of $59,217,789 worldwide. In 2003, Philips was originally going to appear again as Trish Jenner in Jeepers Creepers 2, as the plot was about her character and Patricia Belcher's character hunting down The Creeper, while a school bus full of teens terrorized by The Creeper was just a subplot. But the more writer and director Victor Salva worked on the script, the more the bus plot became more interesting. After rewrites Philips turned down the chance to reprise her role as the film mainly concentrated on the bus instead. Her next film was the American comedy-drama film The Anarchist Cookbook. The film follows a young honors student-turned-anarchist and his group of anarchist friends living peacefully in a Dallas commune until a nihilist appears with a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook and completely destroys their way of life. The film was received with generally negative reviews. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes shows a freshness rating of 39%, and Metacritic's average review score is 36 out of 100.

In 2004, she starred in the horror films Dead & Breakfast and Jennifer's Shadow. Dead & Breakfast received mixed to positive reviews. It premiered at The South By Southwest Film Festival and went on to win over a dozen awards and was nominated for a Saturn Award. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 50% of 18 surveyed critics gave the film a positive rating; the average rating is 5.8/10. Joshua Siebalt of Dread Central rated it 3.5/5 stars and said that it would become a cult film among horror fans that understand it. Reviewing the film on DVD, Steve Barton, also of Dread Central, rated it 4/5 stars and wrote, "It's clever, witty, and ultra-violent; I couldn't be more pleased." Mac McEntire of DVD Verdict wrote, "Dead and Breakfast is why we love low budget horror movies." Critical reception to Jennifer's Shadow was similar. It was numbered 9 on Complex's The 10 Best Latin American Horror Movies. Complex stated "Directors Daniel de la Vega’s and Pablo Parés’ supernatural collaboration does a fine job of emulating much of that older style of cinema’s dread-filled mood and unsettling undercurrents".

In 2006, Philips again played a lead in a low budget horror film, Ring Around the Rosie. Playing a young woman is plagued by horrible visions and dreams of tragic past events while spending time at her grandparent's secluded summerhouse. The next year she starred in the horror film The Sickhouse and the Lifetime film My Baby Is Missing. The film was released as a DVD under the title Stolen Innocence on 7 January 2010.

In 2011, she began work on the Jennifer Lynch film Chained (previously titled Rabbit). A Canadian psychological thriller In which a serial killer kidnaps and adopts a young boy, eventually turning him into his protege. The film was shot in Regina, Saskatchewan, over a period of 15 days. It had its world premiere at the Fantasia Festival on 5 August 2012.

She is set to be a lead in the third Jeepers Creepers film, titled Jeepers Creepers Cathedral. It is currently being developed.

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1993	When the Bough Breaks	Teenage Girl	As Gina Phillips
	Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage	Adult Gigi	TV movie
1994	Rave, Dancing to a Different Beat	L
	Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg	Alicia	TV movie
1995	Breaking Free	Lindsay Kurtz
	Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare	Tracy Ingram	TV movie
1996	No Greater Love	Alexis 'Lexie' Winfield	TV movie
	Unforgivable	Tammy	TV movie / As Gina Phillips
	Her Costly Affair	Tess Weston	TV movie
1997	Born Into Exile	Holly Nolan	TV movie
	The Advocate's Devil	Emma	TV movie
	Bella Mafia	Rosa Luciano	TV movie
1998	Telling You	Kristen Barrett
	Living Out Loud	Lisa Francato
2001	Nailed	Mia Romano
	Jeepers Creepers	Patricia 'Trish' Jenner
2002	The Anarchist Cookbook	Karla
2003	Something More	Orangina
	Sam & Joe	Lisa
2004	Dead & Breakfast	Melody
	Jennifer's Shadow	Jennifer Cassi/Johanna
2006	Ring Around the Rosie	Karen Baldwin
	Thanks to Gravity	Jordan
2007	The Sick House	Anna
	My Baby Is Missing	Jenna Davis	TV movie
2012	Chained	Marie
	Hijacked	Michelle Leib
2017	Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral	Trish Jenner

TV series

Year	Title	Role	# episodes
1992	Growing Pains	Gail	1 episode
1993	Blossom	Tracy	1 episode
	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Varis	1 episode, "The Storyteller"
	Silk Stalkings	Stacy	1 episode
1995	Strange Luck	Jensen	1 episode
1996	Dark Skies	Marnie Lane	1 episode
	Sliders	Devin	1 episode
1998	Michael Hayes	Jessica Hartman	1 episode
	Buddy Faro	Tara Davies	1 episode
	Seven Days	Rebecca Ann Rhodes/'Teddy Bear'/Tatiana Zenkovskaya	1 episode
1999-2000	Ally McBeal	Sandy Hingle	13 episodes
2001	Boston Public	Jenna Miller	5 episodes
2002	ER	ER Nurse Kathy	2 episodes
	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Raina Krell	1 episode
2004	Hawaii	Harper Woods	4 episodes
2007	Medium	Colleen Fitzpatrick Barlow	1 episode
	Monk	Brandy Barber	1 episode

[ Source: Wikipedia ]