Idowu Phillips a.k.a Iya Rainbow is an Actress, Director and a Producer. She was born in Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, Nigeria on the 16th of October 1942.

Iya Rainbow attended African Methodist School and Anglican Modern School for Her Primary and Secondary School Education respectively. She was later admitted into the Nursing school and upon graduation worked for 20 years as a Nurse.

She started as a stage actress in Her late husband's Osumare Theatre group while working as a Nurse,finding time to go to location to shoot films. After the death of Her husband, She retired from Nursing at 45 in 1986 to become an Actress on the advice of the late Chief Hubert Ogunde. She is one female Pillar in the Yoruba Movie Industry who had Her first appearance in a set of Movies titled "Aje ni Iya Mi" and "Eru". But came into Limelight by a Movie titled "Asiri Nla".

Still strong at 68, Mrs. Idowu Esther Phillips is doing great in the Movie Industry and has since Acted in over 500 hundred Movies. She is blessed with Five Children.