Phil Carey was raised in the Long Island suburbs of Rosedale and Malverne, harboring dreams of becoming an actor all of his life. Phil studied drama at the University of Miami, but began his career on Long Island, where a Warner Bros. representative asked him to take a screen test, and the rest is history.
The father of three children, Phil loves to play golf in his spare time, to relax. He is also an accomplished horseman, due in part to his many western films, but his philosophy is "I'm an actor who rides, not a rider who acts."