Priscilla Phillips: What’s Actually Known About Roger Waters’ Third Wife

Priscilla Phillips occupies an unusual position in celebrity biography. She was married to one of rock music’s most famous and outspoken figures, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, for eight years, and she shares a son with him. Yet unlike most people who marry into that level of fame, Priscilla Phillips never built a public persona around the connection. She gave no lengthy interviews about the marriage, did not write a memoir, and has not maintained a visible media presence in the decades since her divorce. That combination, a real, documented marriage to a global rock icon, paired with almost no independent public record, makes her one of the harder subjects to write about honestly. This piece sticks closely to what is verifiable through primary sources like IMDb and Wikipedia’s entry on Roger Waters, and it flags clearly wherever the available information thins out into speculation or simply isn’t known.

Who Is Priscilla Phillips?

Priscilla Phillips is a British actress, credited in some film records as Pricilla Phillips, best known publicly today for having been married to Roger Waters, the bassist, singer, and primary lyricist behind Pink Floyd during the band’s most commercially dominant years. Her acting career, while real, was modest in scope and visibility, consisting of a small number of credited film and television appearances rather than a long-running or headline career. Because her public footprint outside of the Waters marriage is so limited, most of what circulates online about Priscilla Phillips today either repeats the same handful of confirmed facts or drifts into unverified narrative filler. This post aims to separate the two.

It’s worth noting upfront: basic biographical details that are standard in most celebrity profiles- Priscilla Phillips’ exact birth date, her hometown, her family background, and her educational history, are not confirmed in any reliable public record. Several lower-quality websites present specific claims about her upbringing with confident, narrative language, but none of them cite a verifiable source, and the details vary or contradict each other across sites. Rather than repeat those claims as fact, this piece treats them as unknown.

Priscilla Phillips’ Acting Career

According to IMDb, Priscilla Phillips has three credited acting roles. She appeared in Frankie and Johnny (1991), a romantic drama starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer, in an unspecified capacity. She was also credited in The Big One (1992) and in Roger Waters: Three Wishes (1993), a project connected to her then-husband’s musical output.

This is a genuinely thin filmography by industry standards, and it’s worth being direct about that rather than inflating it. Priscilla Phillips was not a prolific working actress with a sustained career arc; she had a brief run of credited appearances in the early 1990s, one of which was directly tied to Roger Waters’ own creative work. There is no confirmed information about acting training, representation, additional uncredited work, or any activity in the field after the early-to-mid 1990s. Anyone searching for a detailed account of Priscilla Phillips’ acting career, beyond these three credits, will not find one in reliable sources, and content that claims otherwise should be treated with skepticism.

How Priscilla Phillips Met Roger Waters

The most specific, sourced detail available about how the couple met comes from IMDb’s biography note on Priscilla Phillips, which states that she was introduced to Roger Waters by her friend Maryam d’Abo, the actress known for her role in the James Bond film The Living Daylights. According to that same account, Waters was still married to his second wife, Lady Carolyne Christie, at the time, and the relationship with Priscilla Phillips developed before that marriage formally ended.

Roger Waters and Lady Carolyne Christie, a member of the British aristocracy connected to the Marquess of Zetland family, were married from 1976 to 1992 and had two children together, son Harry Waters and daughter India Waters. Waters and Priscilla Phillips began seeing each other around this period, and their relationship became public as his marriage to Christie was ending. Beyond the introduction through Maryam d’Abo, no detailed public account exists of the early courtship between Priscilla Phillips and Roger Waters, how long they dated before marrying, where they spent time together, or how the relationship developed is not documented in any source that could be considered reliable. Some entertainment blogs offer more elaborate narrative descriptions of this period, but these appear to be embellished or invented rather than sourced, and are excluded here for that reason.

The Marriage to Roger Waters

Priscilla Phillips and Roger Waters married on July 28, 1993. This date is corroborated across multiple sources, including entertainment outlets that have covered Waters’ full marital history in the context of his later weddings. The marriage lasted eight years, ending in divorce in 2001.

During this period, Roger Waters was well into his post-Pink Floyd solo career. He had left Pink Floyd in 1985 following a prolonged legal and creative dispute with his former bandmates, particularly guitarist David Gilmour, over control of the band’s name and creative direction. That dispute was itself a significant public story throughout the mid-to-late 1980s, playing out partly in the press and partly in the courts, and it shaped how Waters approached his career for years afterward. By the time he married Priscilla Phillips, Waters had already released solo albums including The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking and Radio K.A.O.S., and would go on to release Amused to Death in 1992, shortly before the marriage began. Amused to Death is generally regarded by critics and longtime fans as one of the more fully realized entries in his solo catalogue, built around themes of media saturation and war that Waters had also explored, in different forms, in his Pink Floyd–era work.

There is no publicly documented account of Priscilla Phillips’ involvement in or reaction to Waters’ professional life during their marriage; whether she attended tours, contributed to projects beyond her credited appearance in Roger Waters: Three Wishes, or maintained a separate creative life of her own during this time is not known from available sources. That documentary, Roger Waters: Three Wishes, released the same year the couple married, remains the clearest professional overlap between the two that shows up in credited industry records, though the nature and extent of Priscilla Phillips’ involvement in that project beyond her credit is not detailed anywhere reliable either.

What is confirmed is that the couple had one child together during the marriage: a son, Jack Fletcher Waters. Public sourcing consistently identifies Jack as the third of Roger Waters’ children, following Harry and India from the marriage to Carolyne Christie. Beyond his name and birth order among Waters’ children, there is little independently verified public information about Jack Fletcher Waters’ upbringing, education, or adult life, and this piece will not speculate on details that aren’t documented.

The Divorce and Its Aftermath

Priscilla Phillips and Roger Waters divorced in 2001, ending an eight-year marriage. As with much of this subject, the divorce itself is thinly documented in public sources; there is no confirmed public record of the legal proceedings, custody arrangements, or financial terms, and this piece does not speculate about any of that. What can be said is that the divorce fits into a broader, well-documented pattern in Roger Waters’ personal history: he has been married five times in total, and three of those four completed marriages (excluding his current one) ended in divorce.

Roger Waters’ full marital history, as documented on his Wikipedia page and corroborated by numerous entertainment outlets, runs as follows. His first marriage was to Judith Trim, his childhood sweetheart, from 1969 to 1975; Trim was a studio potter whose work was later collected by institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and she died in 2001, coincidentally the same year Waters’ marriage to Priscilla Phillips ended. His second marriage, to Lady Carolyne Christie, ran from 1976 to 1992. His third marriage was to Priscilla Phillips, from 1993 to 2001. He went on to marry filmmaker Laurie Durning in 2012, following roughly a decade together, and that marriage ended in divorce by 2015 amid a reportedly contentious split. Waters married for a fifth time in October 2021, to Kamilah Chavis, whom he reportedly met at one of his own concerts.

In interviews given later in his life, including a Desert Island Discs appearance on BBC Radio 4, Roger Waters has spoken in general terms about the pattern of failed marriages in his life, at one point attributing some of the difficulty to having grown up in an all-female household with his mother and sisters, and reflecting on struggling to understand how power operated within his relationships. These comments were general reflections on his broader marital history rather than statements specifically about his marriage to Priscilla Phillips, and should not be read as a direct commentary on that relationship specifically. No public statement from Roger Waters that specifically addresses his marriage to or divorce from Priscilla Phillips has been identified in available sourcing.

Life After the Spotlight

This is the section of Priscilla Phillips’ story where public information becomes sparsest, and it’s important to be transparent about that rather than filling the gap with invented detail. Following her 2001 divorce from Roger Waters, Priscilla Phillips appears to have largely stepped back from any public-facing career or media presence. She has no further credited acting roles after the early 1990s in available filmographies. She has not given interviews about her marriage, her son, or her life more broadly that turn up in searchable public records. Entertainment sites covering Roger Waters’ marital history typically mention her only in the context of the marriage dates and their son, without any additional biographical update.

Some websites claim to know her current whereabouts, relationship status, or activities in more recent years. These claims are not corroborated by any primary source and should be treated as unverified. One such site, in particular, presents an elaborate narrative about her personal life, including specific claims about her being intensely private with no interviews, no old records, and no stories about her younger days, while simultaneously offering confident-sounding details about her outlook and preferences that have no discoverable sourcing. This is a common pattern in low-quality content built primarily to rank for a person’s name in search results rather than to inform: it uses the genuine absence of information as a narrative device (she is mysterious, she chose privacy) while still manufacturing enough specific-sounding claims to fill out an article. Readers should be cautious of this kind of content, and this piece deliberately avoids reproducing or building on those unverified claims.

What can be said honestly is this: Priscilla Phillips does not appear to have sought public attention independent of her marriage to Roger Waters, either during the marriage or after it. Whether that reflects a deliberate choice to protect her privacy, a simple lack of ongoing public-facing work, or some combination of both is not something that can be determined from the record available. It would be inaccurate to characterize her as reclusive or media-averse in any documented sense, since there’s no evidence she has ever declined interview requests or actively avoided coverage; the more accurate statement is simply that verifiable public information about her post-2001 life does not currently exist in searchable, credible sources.

Separating Fact From Speculation

Given how much low-quality content exists around Priscilla Phillips’ name, it’s worth summarizing plainly what is and isn’t confirmed, since search results on this topic are inconsistent in quality.

Confirmed by reliable sourcing: she is a British actress with acting credits in Frankie and Johnny (1991), The Big One (1992), and Roger Waters: Three Wishes (1993); she was introduced to Roger Waters by mutual friend Maryam d’Abo; she married Waters on July 28, 1993; the couple had one son, Jack Fletcher Waters; and the marriage ended in divorce in 2001.

Not confirmed, and not addressed as fact in this piece: her exact birth date, her place of birth or upbringing, details of any education, the specifics of how her relationship with Roger Waters developed before marriage, any professional activity after the early 1990s, her current relationship status, and any details of her life since 2001. Wherever this piece has needed to describe that period, it has said so directly rather than filling the space with plausible-sounding invention.

Conclusion

Priscilla Phillips’ story is ultimately a small, specific chapter within a much larger and better-documented narrative: the personal and professional life of Roger Waters, one of the most influential figures in rock music history. Waters’ work with Pink Floyd on albums like The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall reshaped what a rock album could be, both musically and conceptually, and his departure from the band in 1985 kicked off decades of legal and public disputes over its legacy. His personal life, including five marriages, has been extensively covered by entertainment media largely because of that fame, not because his individual former spouses sought that attention themselves.

For Priscilla Phillips specifically, that means her public record will likely remain limited to what’s outlined here: a real marriage, a real son, a modest acting career, and a long, quiet period afterward that simply isn’t documented in any reliable way. That’s a less satisfying story than the more elaborate, invented versions circulating elsewhere online, but it has the advantage of being accurate, and readers looking for a fuller account of her life beyond what’s covered here are unlikely to find one that holds up to scrutiny.

This gap between demand and available information is fairly common with people who are connected, through marriage or family, to major public figures but who never pursued fame in their own right. Search interest in a name like Priscilla Phillips tends to be driven almost entirely by curiosity about the more famous partner, in this case, one of the defining songwriters in rock history, rather than by any independent public interest in her own career or life. That dynamic creates a strong incentive for low-effort content to fill the gap with speculation dressed up as biography, because thin sourcing doesn’t stop search demand from existing. It’s a useful pattern to recognize more broadly: when an article about a relatively private person reads unusually smoothly and confidently, with rich personal detail but no named sources, dates, or citations behind the specifics, that’s often a sign the piece was generated to satisfy search demand rather than researched from verifiable records.

None of this is a criticism of Priscilla Phillips herself. Choosing not to build a public career or maintain a media presence after a marriage to a famous person ends is an entirely reasonable choice, and it’s arguably the more common one among former spouses of celebrities who weren’t already famous in their own right before the relationship began. The honest version of her story is simply shorter and less dramatic than some of what circulates about her: a real marriage that mattered to the people involved, a shared son, and a private life since then that the public record doesn’t have access to, and shouldn’t pretend otherwise.

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