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Lou Diamond Phillips (born Louis Upchurch February 17, 1962 at Subic Bay Naval Station, Philippines), named for Marine legend Lou Diamond, is an American actor. He has Filipino, Hawaiian, Chinese, Spanish, Scotch-Irish and one-eighth Cherokee Indian origins.
Phillips worked as an assistant director and instructor at the University of Texas, where he also studied Drama and Film Technique, between 1983-1986.
He is an alumnus of University of Texas at Arlington. He attended Flour Bluff High School in Corpus Christi, TX.
Phillips' big break came with the starring role in 1987's La Bamba as doomed early rocker Ritchie Valens. Though the role garnered him laud from critics, he has since found it difficult to find another leading role in a big-budget Hollywood film.
The first low budget film in which he starred in was called Trespasses. During the making of this film, he met Julie Cypher, an assistant director who would later become his wife. She would later divorce him and go on to be the lesbian lover of Melissa Etheridge.
Lou Diamond Phillips Filmography
Actor
• Murder at the Presidio (2005)
• The Trail to Hope Rose (2005)
• Stark Raving Mad (2004)
• Absolon (2003)
• Red Water (2003)
• Hollywood Homicide (2003)
• Lone Hero (2002)
• Malevolent (2002)
• Knight Club (2001)
• Route 666 (2001)
• A Better Way to Die (2000)
• Hangman (2000)
• Supernova (2000)
• In a Class of His Own (1999)
• Bats (1999)
• Brokedown Palace (1999)
• Another Day in Paradise (1998)
• The Big Hit (1998)
• Courage Under Fire (1996)
• The Wharf Rat (1995)
• Boulevard (1994)
• Dangerous Touch (1994)
• Teresa's Tattoo (1994)
• Sioux City (1994)
• Sioux City (1994)
• The Dark Wind (1993)
• Extreme Justice (1993)
• Shadow of the Wolf (1993)
• Ambition (1991)
• Ambition (1991)
• Young Guns II (1990)
• A Show of Force (1990)
• The First Power (1990)
• Renegades (1989)
• Disorganized Crime (1989)
• Dakota (1988)
• Dakota (1988)
• Young Guns (1988)
• Stand and Deliver (1988)
• La Bamba (1987)
• Trespasses (1986)
• Harley (1985)
Associate Producer
• Dakota (1988)
Cameo
• Picking Up the Pieces (1999)
Director
• Dangerous Touch (1994)
• Sioux City (1994)
Screenwriter
• Ambition (1991)
• Trespasses (1986)
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