American rock singer who is best known as the singing voice of the title character of the animated TV show Jem. She is a member of the band Luna and has also released three Dean & Britta albums with her husband and Luna bandmate Dean Wareham. Her debut solo album, Luck or Magic, was released in 2016.
She played in the bands The Belltower and Ultrababyfat in the 1990s.
She acted in the 1988 film Satisfaction in the role of Billie. She and her husband Dean scored Noah Baumbach's films The Squid & The Whale and Mistress American.
Her father, Peter Phillips, was a jazz, classical and session musician who worked on the Jem cartoon, as well as with Philip Glass, Herbie Hancock and Kai Winding.
She acted alongside Dennis Farina in an episode of the TV show Crime Story in 1988.