Bruckner was born in Hollywood, California, to a Hungarian father and a Russian mother who have since divorced; her paternal grandfather was German.Her parents met in Hungary and immigrated to the U.S. in 1984 through a refugee camp in Italy. She has two sisters and a brother.

Bruckner speaks some Russian and is fluent in Hungarian, having grown up speaking the language.She has been involved in dance, ballet, and tap since the age of five and initially wanted to pursue a career as a dancer. At the age of eight, Bruckner worked as a child model at the suggestion of her mother and also appeared in a beauty pageant. Bruckner grew up in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, California, until age five and then lived in Portland, Oregon, until age ten. She returned with her family to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, moving to Burbank, California.

Bruckner began her career at age 11. She appeared in commercials, in a few television pilots, and on the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful in 1999. At the age of 15, Bruckner got her first lead role in the independent film Blue Car (2002), in which she played a high school student involved in an affair with her teacher, played by David Strathairn. Film critic Roger Ebert wrote that Bruckner "negotiates this difficult script with complete conviction." Bruckner received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for "Best Female Lead" for the role.

In the 2000s, other minor roles in television and film followed, including roles in The Glass House (2001) and the thriller Murder by Numbers (2002), starring Sandra Bullock. Bruckner has appeared in episodes of the television series 24 and Alias. She starred in the horror films Venom (2005) and The Woods (2006). Also in 2006, she appeared in the drama Peaceful Warrior opposite Scott Mechlowicz and received a ShoWest Female Star of Tomorrow Award and played the lead role in Dreamland.

In 2007, Bruckner appeared in the horror/romance film Blood and Chocolate and later Say Hello to Stan Talmadge (2008), Kill Theory (2008), Vacancy 2: The First Cut (2009), and The Craigslist Killer (2011).

Bruckner enjoys hip-hop and R&B as well as The Killers and The Fray. Bruckner has stated that she does not participate in "the Hollywood part of Hollywood" and travels or lives at home with her family during her free time.

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模特、演员、歌手碧悠·菲利浦的父亲是美国著名的六七十年代民谣摇滚乐团The Mamas and the Papas团员约翰·菲力普斯（John Phillips），约翰共有过四位妻子和五位儿女，碧悠的母亲Geneviève Waïte是他的第二任妻子，也是一位前时尚模特。碧悠（Bijou）的名字是约翰根据爵士乐队“Lambert,Hendricks and Ross”歌曲“My Petite Bijou”而取的，Bijou在法语中的意思和“珍宝”；此外她的教父则是大名鼎鼎的波普教主安迪·沃霍尔（Andy Warhol）。

碧悠·菲利浦1980年愚人节那天出生在美国康涅狄格州的格林威治市自家的沙发上，属于早产儿，但父母却惊奇地发现她的身体不但健康，而且逐渐成长为一位出色的马戏团杂耍小演员，童年时代往返与纽约、加州以及南非的演出旅行当中；碧悠可丝毫不羡慕那些老实地坐在教室里的同龄人们，13岁之际她为了逃避去读寄宿学校而开始了模特事业，很快便登上Maxim、Stuff、Interview、Playbo、People、Detour、Nylon、Paper、944、Missbehave magazines等时尚和综艺杂志，并且成为Calvin Klein的签约模特，14岁时出现在意大利版Vogue封面之上让她成为Vogue杂志历史上最年轻的封面模特；而此时的碧悠浮华的私生活也是人们关注的焦点，她同希尔顿姐妹情谊深重，14到16岁期间被看作纽约最著名的“派对生物”之一。然而她的模特生涯只持续不到四年，17岁时碧悠·菲利浦踏着父亲以及同父异母的姐姐Chynna Phillips的步伐走上了歌手的道路，专辑的名称“I'd Rather Eat Glass”表明了她对于模特这一行业已经非常不屑。

1999年，碧悠·菲利浦曾经客串亮相过音乐喜剧片《糖镇》，同年她还被绯闻男友莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥推荐给了导演James Toback，后者为她在云集众多明星和新人的影片《黑道当家》（Black and White）中安排了一个角色，初登大银幕的碧悠获得了评论界的好评，导演James Toback也对她的天赋和个性赞不绝口，但碧悠本人却一直没有把表演真正当成事业的重心。2000年她曾亮相热门影片《几近成名》，2001年导演Larry Clark挑战她出演改编自发生在佛罗里达州真实的未成人犯罪案件的影片《半熟少年激杀案》（Bully），此后陆续出演的影片还有《Tart》、《Fast Sofa》、《Octane》、《寡居的一年》、《历劫俏佳人》、《What We Do Is Secret》、《Dark Streets》、《血之魔术师》以及《人皮客栈2 》等等；最近工作则是在1974年拉里·科恩的恐怖片《It's Alive!》的翻拍作中出演一位受到惊吓就会转变成杀人恶魔的婴儿的母亲，此外碧悠也正在准备自己的第二张专辑。