---
name: "Phyllis Housen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/phyllis-housen"
fi1m_id: "phyllis-housen"
imdb_id: "nm0396734"
tmdb_id: 1448738
wikidata_id: "Q63701155"
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T01:14:50.038665+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Phyllis Housen

## Identity

Phyllis Housen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/phyllis-housen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** phyllis-housen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0396734
- **TMDB ID:** 1448738
- **Wikidata ID:** Q63701155
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63701155, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396734/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1448738

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Also known as:** Phyllis K. Housen 
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63701155, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396734/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1448738

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Clemency*](https://film.one/film/clemency.md) (81)

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## Biography

Phyllis Housen is a film and television editor, also credited as Phyllis K. Housen. She began her career in the early 1990s as an assistant editor on features including *Cronos* (1992), *Boxing Helena* (1993) and *Kill Bill: Vol. 1* (2003) and *Kill Bill: Vol. 2* (2004), the latter two under editor Sally Menke.

Housen has edited numerous independent features such as *Dream for an Insomniac* (1996), *Adam & Steve* (2005), *Heavy Petting* (2007), *Meskada* (2010), *Cargo* (2017) and *Clemency* (2019). Her television credits include episodes of *Little Fires Everywhere* (2020), *Power Book IV: Force* (2022), *Tiny Beautiful Things* (2023) and *Three Women* (2023).

*Clemency*, directed by Chinonye Chukwu and starring Alfre Woodard, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. Housen has also worked on documentaries and short films.

*Sources: variety.com, imdb.com, postperspective.com, provideocoalition.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Clemency* (2019), Fi1m 81, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/clemency.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Tiny Beautiful Things* (2023), series, Editor
- *Little Fires Everywhere* (2020), series, Editor
- *16 Bars* (2020), Editor
- *Clemency* (2019), Editor — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/clemency.md)
- *Confidence Game* (2016), Editor
- *Fan Girl* (2015), Editor
- *To Whom It May Concern* (2015), Editor
- *My Man Is a Loser* (2014), Editor
- *Junction* (2012), Editor
- *Margarita* (2012), Editor
- *Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac* (2010), Editor
- *Heavy Petting* (2007), Editor
- *Adam & Steve* (2005), Editor
- *Starcrossed* (2005), Editor
- *Dream for an Insomniac* (1996), Editor
- *Beverly Hills Cop III* (1994), Assistant Editor
- *Boxing Helena* (1993), Assistant Editor
- *Lillian, Next Door*, Editor

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