Lou Diamond Phillips
Gender: Male
Born: 17th February 1962 (currently 49 years old)
Nationality: United States of America, Philippines
TV programs: Wolf Lake, Aquaman, I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here!, I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here!, Stargate Universe, Mercy Reef, 24, The Triangle
Movies: Courage Under Fire, La Bamba, Red Water, Stand and Deliver, The Big Hit, Disorganized Crime, Route 666, Young Guns II, Young Guns, The First Power, Bats, Hollywood Homicide, Stark Raving Mad, Alien Express, Supernova, A Show of Force, Sioux City, Boulevard, The Dark Wind, Interface, Fingerprints, Renegades, Brokedown Palace, Override, Extreme Justice, Picking Up the Pieces, El Cortez, Gone But Not Forgotten, Shadow of the Wolf, Murder at the Presidio, The Trail to Hope Rose, In a Class of His Own, Knight Club, Death Toll, Absolon, Dangerous Touch, Teresa's Tattoo, The Invited, Carny, Kids Ten Commandments: Life and Seth Situation, Love Takes Wing, Malevolent, Hangman, Angel and the Badman, Lone Hero, Never Forget, Striking Range, Dakota, Termination Point, A Better Way to Die, Lone Rider, Takedown, Filly Brown, Aquaman
Lou Diamond Phillips (born Lou Diamond Upchurch; February 17, 1962) is an American film, television, and stage actor and director. His breakthrough came when he starred in the film La Bamba. He earned a supporting actor Golden Globe Award nomination for his role in Stand and Deliver and a Tony Award nomination for his role in The King and I. Other notable films in which Phillips has starred include Courage Under Fire, Che, and Love Takes Wing.
Outside of acting, he has notably finished 186th in the 2009 World Series of Poker World Championships "No Limit Texas hold 'em" main event.
Phillips was born as Lou Diamond Upchurch at the Subic Bay U.S. Naval Station in Zambales, Philippines, the son of Lucita Aranas and Gerald Upchurch, an officer in the United States Navy. His father was an American of Scots-Irish and one-quarter Cherokee descent, and his mother, a native of Candelaria, is a Filipina of Spanish, Chinese, Hawaiian and Japanese descent. Phillips was named after Marine legend Lou Diamond. He was adopted by his stepfather and took his surname "Phillips".
He was raised in Texas, where he attended Flour Bluff High School in Corpus Christi graduating in 1980. He graduated from
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