Lou Diamond Phillips (born February 17, 1962), born
Lou Diamond Upchurch, is a
FilipinoThe Philippines officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
film, television, and stage actor. He earned a supporting actor Golden Globe Award nomination for his role in
Stand and DeliverStand and Deliver is a 1988 film dramatizing the work of Jaime Escalante, a dedicated high school mathematics teacher portrayed by Edward James Olmos.-Plot:...
and a Tony Award nomination for his role in
The King and IThe King and I is a musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II based on the book Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon. The plot comes from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, who became school teacher to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s...
. Outside of acting he has become notable for finishing in the top 3% of the field in the
2009 World Series of PokerThe 2009 World Series of Poker was the 40th annual World Series of Poker . It was held at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, and ran from May 27 to July 15. There were 57 bracelet events, culminating in the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event...
World Championships No Limit
Texas hold 'emTexas hold 'em is the most popular poker game in the casinos and poker card rooms across North America and Europe, and online...
main event.
Early life
Phillips was born as Lou Diamond Upchurch at the
Subic Bay Naval StationU.S. Naval Base Subic Bay was a major ship-repair, supply, and rest and recreation facility of the United States Navy located in Zambales, Philippines. It was the largest U.S...
in
ZambalesZambales is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is Iba. Zambales borders Pangasinan to the north, Tarlac and Pampanga to the east, and Bataan to the south. The province lies between the South China Sea and the Zambales Mountains. With a land area of...
,
PhilippinesThe Philippines officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
, the son of Lucita and Gerald Upchurch, naval officer. His father was an American of
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,
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and
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descent and his mother was a
FilipinaThe Filipino people are the nationals of the Republic of the Philippines and to persons having Filipino ancestry. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines and about 11 million outside the Philippines....
of Japanese,
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, and Spanish extraction. Phillips was named after
MarineThe United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States armed forces responsible for providing force projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
legend
Lou DiamondMaster Gunnery Sergeant Leland "Lou" Diamond USMC is famous within the US Marine Corps as the classic example of the "Old Breed" - tough, hard-fighting career Marines who served in the Corps in the years between World War I and World War II.-Early years:Diamond was born May 30, 1890, in Bedford,...
and adopted the surname "Phillips" from his stepfather.
He was raised in Texas where he attended
Flour Bluff High SchoolFlour Bluff High School is a public high school in Corpus Christi, Texas . It is part of the Flour Bluff Independent School District.Located at 2505 Waldron Road, the school serves students in grades nine through twelve and is home of the Hustlin' Hornets.The Texas Education Agency's 2007...
in
Corpus ChristiCorpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas. The county seat of Nueces County, it also extends into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio counties.MSA population in 2008 is 416, 376. The population was 277,454 at the 2000 census; in 2006 the US Census...
. He graduated from the
University of Texas at ArlingtonThe University of Texas at Arlington is a comprehensive doctoral/research university in Arlington, Texas . It is classified by Carnegie as Research University - High Activity. UT Arlington has a student population of nearly 25,000 and is the third largest institution of the University of Texas...
with a BFA in Drama.
Career
The first low-budget film he starred in was called
Trespasses. Phillips' big break came with the starring role in 1987's
La BambaLa Bamba is an American biographical film written and directed by Luis Valdez. The picture features Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, among others...
as early rocker
Ritchie ValensRichard Steven "Ritchie" Valenzuela , better known by the stage name Ritchie Valens, was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist....
. Though the role garnered him praise from critics, he has since found it difficult to find another leading role in a big-budget
HollywoodHollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, United States, situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonymy of American cinema...
film, as he regularly referred to as "the guy from
La Bamba."
In 1988, Phillips co-starred along
Edward James OlmosEdward James "Eddie" Olmos is a Mexican American actor and director. His most memorable roles are Commander/Admiral William Adama in the Battlestar Galactica re-imagined series , Lt...
in the inner-city high school drama,
Stand and DeliverStand and Deliver is a 1988 film dramatizing the work of Jaime Escalante, a dedicated high school mathematics teacher portrayed by Edward James Olmos.-Plot:...
in a role for which he was nominated for a
Golden Globe AwardThe Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in motion pictures and television...
for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture. He plays Angel Guzman, a wannabe
choloCholo is a term that has been applied to individuals of mixed American Indian ancestry, or other racially mixed origin; its precise usage has varied widely in different times and places.-Historical usage:...
gangster who is inspired by his math teacher,
Jaime EscalanteJaime Escalante is a professor and teacher of mathematics who gained renown and distinction for his work at Garfield High School in Los Angeles, California in teaching students calculus, from 1974 to 1991.-Career:...
, to challenge himself at
calculusCalculus is a discipline in mathematics focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. This subject constitutes a major part of modern mathematics education. It has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus, which are related by the fundamental...
; and along the road, creates a friendship with his teacher.
Stand and Deliver was actually filmed before
La Bamba, but was released a year later. In 1988 and 1990, Phillips co-starred with
Emilio EstevezEmilio Estevez is an American actor, film director, poet, and writer. He started his career as an actor and is famous for being a member of the acting Brat Pack of the 1980s, appearing in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire...
and
Kiefer SutherlandKiefer William Fredrick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland is a British-born Canadian actor, best known for his portrayal of Jack Bauer on the Fox thriller drama series 24. He is an Emmy Award- and Golden Globe award-winner...
in the cowboy movies
Young GunsYoung Guns is a 1988 action/western film, directed by Christopher Cain and written by John Fusco. The film stars Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, Terence Stamp, Terry O'Quinn, Brian Keith, and Jack Palance.Young Guns is a...
and
Young Guns IIYoung Guns II is a 1990 western film, and the sequel to Young Guns . It stars Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, and features William Petersen as Pat Garrett. It was directed by Geoff Murphy....
, in which he plays
Jose Chavez y ChavezJose Chavez y Chavez was an outlaw from the U.S. state of New Mexico. He was said to be of Mexican-American and Native American ancestry...
, a historical old west outlaw.
In 1996, Phillips made his
BroadwayBroadway Theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, is the theatre associated with the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City...
debut as the King in
Richard RodgersRichard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
and
Oscar Hammerstein IIOscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American writer, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song", and much of his work is part of the unofficial Great...
's
The King and IThe King and I is a musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II based on the book Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon. The plot comes from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, who became school teacher to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s...
. Phillips won a
Theatre World AwardThe Theatre World Award, first awarded for the 1945-46 season, is an American honor presented annually to actors and actresses in recognition of an outstanding New York City stage debut performance, either on Broadway or off-Broadway.-History:...
and was nominated for both a
Tony AwardThe Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are for Broadway productions and...
and a
Drama Desk AwardThe Drama Desk Award, presented since 1955, is the only award that recognizes excellence in shows produced in all sectors of New York theatre, including Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway and legitimate not-for-profit theaters. It is widely considered one of the top American theater awards...
for his performance.
In 1998 he starred as Cisco, the counterpart of the main character Melvin Smiley (played by
Mark WahlbergMark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an American actor, rapper and producer of film and television. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years and became famous in his 1991 debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.-Early life:Born in the Dorchester neighborhood of...
, launching his career) in the comedy-action movie
The Big HitThe Big Hit is a 1998 action-comedy film directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Kirk Wong. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Avery Brooks, and Elliot Gould.The film was shot in Hamilton, and Pickering, Ontario, Canada....
.
On September 11, 2007, Phillips joined the touring troup for Lerner and Loewe's
CamelotCamelot is a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederic Loewe . It is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T. H. White tetralogy novel The Once and Future King....
in the role of
King ArthurKing Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defense of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and his historical existence is debated...
. He also played a role in the first season of the TV series
2424 is an American serial action/drama television series. Broadcast by Fox in the United States and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial 13 episodes...
as secret government agent Mark DeSalvo, opposite former
Young Guns star Kiefer Sutherland (who played the lead role,
Jack BauerJack Bauer is the protagonist of the American television series 24, in which he has trained and worked in various capacities as a government agent, including U.S. Army Delta Force, Los Angeles Police Department, SWAT, CIA, and during the course of the show the Counter Terrorist Unit, CTU and the FBI...
).
Phillips plays the recurring role of FBI agent Ian Edgerton in the television series
Numb3rsNumb3rs is an American television drama, which premiered on January 23, 2005 on CBS. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes for the FBI...
. Edgerton is an FBI tracker and sniper who works as a sniper instructor at
QuanticoQuantico, Virginia is a town in Prince William County, located in Washington Metropolitan Area. It is totally surrounded by Marine Corps Base Quantico on three sides and the Potomac River on the fourth. Quantico is located south of the mouth of Quantico Creek on the Potomac. As of the 2000 census,...
FBI AcademyThe FBI Academy, located in Quantico, Virginia, is the training grounds for new Special Agents of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was first opened for use in 1972 on 385 acres of woodland. It is a relatively small government academy, housing three dormitory buildings and...
when he is not working a case in the field.
Phillips won the second season of the
NBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...
reality series
I'm a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here!The second season of I'm a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here! premiered on June 1, 2009 and concluded on June 24, 2009. The season, aired on NBC,a revival of the ABC series of the same name and continued to follow the same format as the original British series. It is also broadcast in Ireland and the...
over pro-wrestler
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.
Phillips has also been cast as Colonel Telford in the
Stargate UniverseStargate Universe is a Canadian and American military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. The series, created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper which premiered with the first two parts of a three-part episode, "Air" on Syfy on October 2, 2009...
television series. Phillip's role in the series has been confirmed as a recurring character, the would-be commander of the
Destiny exhibition who is left behind and works from Earth to bring the crew home.
In June 2009, Phillips started writing his autobiography titled "A Diamond Phillips in the Rough: The Life and Times of Lou Diamond Phillips." The book is slated for an early 2010 release and will be co-written with veteran celebrity biographer Michael Lackner and published by Hyperion Books.
Phillips has been a regular poker player since college. In May 2009, Phillips placed 31st in the 403 entrant 2009 California State Poker Championship Limit
Texas hold 'emTexas hold 'em is the most popular poker game in the casinos and poker card rooms across North America and Europe, and online...
. He placed in the money at the $10,000 July
2009 World Series of PokerThe 2009 World Series of Poker was the 40th annual World Series of Poker . It was held at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, and ran from May 27 to July 15. There were 57 bracelet events, culminating in the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event...
World Championship No Limit main event. On July 12, he was eliminated as the original field of 6,494 was trimmed from 407 to 185. He entered the day in 114th place among the 407 and was eliminated on the final hand of the day finishing in 186th place and earning $36,626.
Personal life
During the making of
Trespasses, he met
Julie CypherJulie Cypher, born August 24, 1964 in Wichita, Kansas, is best known as the former partner of Melissa Etheridge.Cypher attended the University of Texas at Austin. She married actor Lou Diamond Phillips in 1986...
, an assistant director who would become his wife on September 17, 1987. They later divorced on August 5, 1990; Cypher left him to start a relationship with rocker
Melissa EtheridgeMelissa Lou Etheridge is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.* * Etheridge will be featured in UniGlobe Entertainment's breast cancer docu-drama titled 1 a Minute scheduled for release in 2010...
. He met
Jennifer TillyJennifer Tilly is an American actress. She is an Academy Award nominee, and a World Series of Poker Ladies' Event bracelet winner.-Personal life:Tilly was born Jennifer E. Chan in Harbor City, Los Angeles, California...
, to whom he was briefly engaged, although the two never married. He later married
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and TV extra Kelly Phillips; they had two daughters: Grace Moorea and Isabella Patricia (twins born on October 5, 1997). They separated in 2004 and their divorce was finalized in July 2007. He married
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Yvonne Marie Boismier less than a month later; their daughter, Indigo Sanara, was born in October 2007.
Phillips plays on the
World Poker TourThe World Poker Tour is a series of international poker tournaments featuring most of the world's professional players. It was started in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who now serves as CEO of WPT Enterprises , the firm that controls the World Poker Tour. In...
in the Hollywood Home games. Phillips took his poker game to the next level in 2009 when he entered the World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event and was one of the survivors out of more than 6,000 players to make it to the money.
Arrest
On August 11, 2006, he was arrested for alleged
domestic violenceDomestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, child abuse or intimate partner violence , can be broadly defined a pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, friends or cohabitation...
at his
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home following a dispute with his future wife, model and makeup artist Yvonne Boismier. In December 2006, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of domestic battery, and was sentenced to three years' probation. He also was ordered to undergo one year of domestic violence counseling and to serve 200 hours of community service.
Activism
Phillips has been an outspoken advocate of
HRA resolution is a written motion adopted by a deliberative body. The substance of the resolution can be anything that can normally be proposed as a motion. For long or important motions, though, it is often better to have them written out so that discussion is easier or so that it can be...
4574, the
Filipino Veterans Equity Act of 2006,
legislationLegislation is law which has been promulgated by a legislature or other governing body, or the process of making it. The term may refer to a single law, or the collective body of enacted law, while "statute" is also used to refer to a single law...
which would honor the service of Filipino
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veteranA war veteran is a person who has or is serving in the armed forces, or a person who has had long service or experience in an occupation or office....
s by granting them the same benefits made available to other U.S.
World War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
veterans.
Awards and achievements
- 1989 Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male (Stand and Deliver
Stand and Deliver is a 1988 film dramatizing the work of Jaime Escalante, a dedicated high school mathematics teacher portrayed by Edward James Olmos.-Plot:...
, 1988)
- 1989 Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in motion pictures and television...
nominee for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Stand and Deliver, 1988)
- 1989 Western Heritage Award Bronze Wrangler Theatrical Motion Picture (Young Guns
Young Guns is a 1988 action/western film, directed by Christopher Cain and written by John Fusco. The film stars Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, Terence Stamp, Terry O'Quinn, Brian Keith, and Jack Palance.Young Guns is a...
, 1988). Shared with John FuscoJohn Fusco is an American screenwriter born and raised in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. His screenplays include Young Guns, Young Guns II, Thunderheart, and Hidalgo. He is also author of the novel Paradise Salvage.-Career:...
(producer), Christopher CainChristopher Cain is an American screenwriter, actor, director, and singer. He married Sharon Thomas in 1969 and adopted her two children, Dean Cain and Roger Cain...
(producer), Charlie SheenCarlos Irwin Estévez , better known as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. His character roles in films have included Chris Taylor in the 1986 Vietnam War Drama Platoon and Bud Fox in 1987 film Wall Street. His career also made room for more comedic roles, including Major League, the Hot Shots!...
(actor), Emilio EstevezEmilio Estevez is an American actor, film director, poet, and writer. He started his career as an actor and is famous for being a member of the acting Brat Pack of the 1980s, appearing in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire...
(actor), Kiefer SutherlandKiefer William Fredrick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland is a British-born Canadian actor, best known for his portrayal of Jack Bauer on the Fox thriller drama series 24. He is an Emmy Award- and Golden Globe award-winner...
(actor)
- 1993 Oxfam America award for his dedication toward ending world hunger
- 1994 Houston International Film Festival Gold award for Best Theatrical Feature Film for Ultimate Revenge
- 1996 Tony Award nominee for Best Actor on Broadway (The King And I)
- 1996 Theatre World Award: The King and I
- 1996 New York Outer Critics Circle: Outstanding Broadway Debut Award of an Actor, The King & I
- 1997 Blockbuster Entertainment Award Favorite Supporting Actor - Adventure/Drama (Courage Under Fire
Courage Under Fire is a 1996 film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips and Matt Damon. It is one of the first films to depict the 1991 Gulf War...
, 1996)
- 1997 Lone Star Film & Television Award for Best Supporting Actor (Courage Under Fire, 1996)
- 2001 Filipinas magazine Achievement award for Entertainment
- 2003 Cinemanila Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award (Philippines
The Philippines officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
)
- 2005 Asia Pacific Islander Heritage Award for Excellence in Entertainment and Arts
- 2009 I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! King of the Jungle
Filmography
- Interface
Interface, is a 1984 horror movie. It was directed by Andy Anderson and starred John Davies, Laura Lane, and Mathew Sacks. It is notable for providing Lou Diamond Phillips his first film role, as PUNK#1....
(1984)
- Trespasses (1986)
- La Bamba
La Bamba is an American biographical film written and directed by Luis Valdez. The picture features Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, among others...
(1987)
- The Three Kings (television) (1987)
- Miami Vice
Miami Vice is an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The show became noted for its heavy integration of music and visual effects to tell a story. The series starred Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in...
(Season 3: Ep.19 \"Red Tape\") (television) (1987)
- Dakota (1988)
- Stand and Deliver
Stand and Deliver is a 1988 film dramatizing the work of Jaime Escalante, a dedicated high school mathematics teacher portrayed by Edward James Olmos.-Plot:...
(1988)
- Young Guns
Young Guns is a 1988 action/western film, directed by Christopher Cain and written by John Fusco. The film stars Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, Terence Stamp, Terry O'Quinn, Brian Keith, and Jack Palance.Young Guns is a...
(1988)
- Disorganized Crime
Disorganized Crime is a 1989 heist/comedy film set in Montana. It was written and directed by Jim Kouf and released through Touchstone Pictures...
(1989)
- Renegades
Renegades is a 1989 movie starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Kiefer Sutherland.Buster McHenry is as an undercover agent for the police. His mission involves him in a robbery. Buster gets shot but Hank Storm , an Indian, helps Buster. Since Hank wants a spear in the possession of the criminals that...
(1989)
- Young Guns II
Young Guns II is a 1990 western film, and the sequel to Young Guns . It stars Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, and features William Petersen as Pat Garrett. It was directed by Geoff Murphy....
(1990)
- A Show of Force
A Show of Force is a 1990 thriller, directed by Bruno Barreto. The film is based on events and theories surrounding the Maravilla Hill case in Puerto Rico adapted from Anne Nelson's book, "Murder Under Two Flags."-Plot:...
(1990)
- The First Power
The First Power is a 1990 American horror film/neo-noir, directed by Robert Resnikoff. It starred Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober and Mykelti Williamson.-Plot:...
(1990)
- Harley (1990)
- The Dark Wind
The Dark Wind is the second Tony Hillerman novel to feature Officer Jim Chee. Recent college graduate Jim Chee has just taken a job with the Navajo Tribal Police in Arizona, where he helps keep the peace with his superior Captain Largo on land earmarked for joint use by the Navajo and the Hopi...
(1991)
- Ambition (1991)
- Sesame Street
Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. Sesame Street is well known for its Muppets characters created by Jim Henson. It premiered on November 10, 1969, and...
(1991) Monster in the Mirror Celebrity version
- Avenue Z Afternoon (1991) Television series
- Shadow of the Wolf (1992)
- Extreme Justice
Extreme Justice is a 1993 action-thriller film. The film was directed by Mark L. Lester, and stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Scott Glenn, and Chelsea Field.-Plot:...
(1993)
- Wind in the Wire
Wind in the Wire is the seventh studio album released by American country music artist Randy Travis. Released in 1993 on Warner Bros. Records, the album was made to accompany a television series also entitled Wind in the Wire...
(1993)
- Dangerous Touch
Dangerous Touch is a thriller film directed by Lou Diamond Phillips. He also co-wrote the film with Kurt Voss, and Lisa Hansen co-produced the film. James Lemmo was the Cinematographer. The movie was filmed in Los Angeles, California, USA...
(1994)
- Sioux City
Sioux City is a 1994 mystery / crime film directed by and starring Lou Diamond Phillips.-Plot:A young Lakota Sioux is adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple. When he ages he gets in touch with his cultural roots....
(1994)
- Boulevard
Boulevard is a 1994 crime thriller film starring Rae Dawn Chong and Lou Diamond Phillips.-Plot:The film is about a woman named Jennefer who runs from her abusive husband, gives her baby up for adoption and ends up on the streets. She's taken in by a prostitute named Ola...
(1994)
- Teresa's Tattoo (1994)
- Override
Override is a 1994 American science fiction genre short film. It was the directorial debut of Danny Glover and starred Lou Diamond Phillips and Emily Lloyd...
(television) (1994)
- The Wharf Rat (television) (1995)
- Teresa's Tattoo
Teresa's Tattoo is a 1994 action–comedy–crime film directed by Julie Cypher and John E. Vohlers. The film is also known as Natural Selection. The film stars C. Thomas Howell, Lou Diamond Phillips, Melissa Etheridge, K.D. Lang, and Kiefer Sutherland...
(1995)
- Undertow (1996)
- Courage Under Fire
Courage Under Fire is a 1996 film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips and Matt Damon. It is one of the first films to depict the 1991 Gulf War...
(1996)
- The Big Hit
The Big Hit is a 1998 action-comedy film directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Kirk Wong. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Avery Brooks, and Elliot Gould.The film was shot in Hamilton, and Pickering, Ontario, Canada....
(1998)
- Another Day in Paradise
Another Day in Paradise is a 1998 drama film directed by Larry Clark, and released by Trimark Pictures. It is based on the novel Another Day in Paradise written by Eddie Little.-Plot:...
(1998)
- Spin City
Spin City is an American sitcom television series that ran from 1996 to 2002 on ABC. Created by Gary David Goldberg and Bill Lawrence, the show was based on a fictional local government running New York City, and originally starred Michael J. Fox as Mike Flaherty, the Deputy Mayor of New York...
(television) (1998) (Episode: \"An Officer and a Gentleman\")
- Brokedown Palace
Brokedown Palace is an American film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, and starring Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale. It deals with two American friends imprisoned in Thailand for drug smuggling...
(1999)
- Orion Scope: The Grip of Christ (television) (1999)
- Bats
Bats is a 1999 horror film, directed by Louis Morneau and produced by Destination Films. The film stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton and Leon.-Plot:...
(1999)
- In a Class of His Own (television) (1999)
- Picking Up the Pieces
Picking Up the Pieces is a 2000 film directed by Alfonso Arau and starring Woody Allen.-Story:Allen plays Tex, a butcher who kills his unfaithful wife Candy, played by Sharon Stone. After cutting up the body, Tex buries most of her body parts in the desert in New Mexico. A blind woman accidentally...
(2000)
- A Better Way to Die (2000)
- Supernova (2000)
- Route 666
Route 666 is a 2001 action/horror film directed by William Wesley. It stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Lori Petty and Steven Williams.-Plot:...
(2001)
- Knight Club (2001)
- Wolf Lake
Wolf Lake was a short-lived American television series that aired on CBS. Wolf Lake follows a pack of werewolves living in a Seattle suburb. Nine episodes and a non-aired pilot were made before the show was cancelled. ITV bought the rights to show the series in theUnited Kingdom and the SCI FI...
(2001) TV Series
- 24
24 is an American serial action/drama television series. Broadcast by Fox in the United States and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial 13 episodes...
(2002) TV series - special guest star as a warden at a government top secret underground prisonA prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Other terms are penitentiary, correctional facility, and jail , although in the United States "jail" and "prison" refer to different subtypes of correctional facility...
, alongside Kiefer SutherlandKiefer William Fredrick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland is a British-born Canadian actor, best known for his portrayal of Jack Bauer on the Fox thriller drama series 24. He is an Emmy Award- and Golden Globe award-winner...
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- Lone Hero (2002)
- Stark Raving Mad
Stark Raving Mad is a 2002 straight-to-DVD film about a heist pulled during a rave produced by A Band Apart.The film was directed and written by Drew Daywalt and David Schneider. It stars Seann William Scott, Lou Diamond Phillips, Timm Sharp, Patrick Breen, John B. Crye, Monet Mazur, C. Ernst...
(2002)
- Malevolent (2002)
- George Lopez Show
George Lopez is an American sitcom starring the comedian George Lopez. The show originally aired on ABC from March 27, 2002 to May 23, 2007...
(2003)
- Absolon (2003)
- Hollywood Homicide
Hollywood Homicide is a 2003 action comedy film starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett.The film also features Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Keith David, Gladys Knight, Master P, and André Benjamin in supporting roles, and Eric Idle makes a cameo appearance...
(2003)
- Red Water
Red Water is a 2003 made for television horror film starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Kristy Swanson and Coolio.- Production and release :...
(television) (2003)
- K10C: Kids' Ten Commandments
Kids' Ten Commandments was a direct-to-video, five part series designed to teach the principles of the Ten Commandments to children in a fun and engaging way. The series shows the life of a fictitious 11-year old boy named Seth...
(television) (2003) guest star as robber on third episode
- Gone But Not Forgotten (television) (2004)
- The Trail to Hope Rose (television) (2004)
- Murder at the Presidio (television) (2005)
- Jack & Bobby
Jack & Bobby is a short-lived Golden Globe Award nominated American television series that aired on The WB network. It featured two brothers, one of whom was destined to become President of the United States, serving from 2041 to 2049...
(television) (2005)
- Alien Express
Alien Express is a Sci Fi Channel original film, directed by Turi Meyer and stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Amy Locane, Barry Corbin, and Todd Bridges. The film was released direct-to-video on August 13, 2005.-Plot:...
(television) (2005)
- The Triangle (television) (2005) Mini-series on Sci-fi channel, inspired by paranormal events in the Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels are alleged to have mysteriously disappeared and cannot be explained as human error, piracy, equipment failure, or natural disasters...
- Striking Range (2006) initially titled Bloodlines
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural TV series about the Special Victims Unit in a fictional version of the 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department...
(television) (2006) as Victor Paul Gitano (Episode: "Fault")
- Numb3rs
Numb3rs is an American television drama, which premiered on January 23, 2005 on CBS. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes , who helps Don solve crimes for the FBI...
(television) (2005-Present) Recurring role of Agent Ian Edgerton
- AquaMan (2006) Un-Aired Pilot
- El Cortez (film) (2007)
- Fingerprints
Fingerprints is a film by Harry Basil starring Leah Pipes, Kristin Cavallari, Josh Henderson, and Andrew Lawrence. The cinematography is inspired from the "Sixth Sense".-Plot:...
(2007)
- Supernatural role of Bichon Frise (2007)
- Psych
Psych is an American comedy-drama television series created by Steve Franks and broadcast on USA Network. The show stars James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a young crime consultant for the Santa Barbara Police Department whose "heightened observational skills" and impressive detective instincts allow...
(television) (2007)
- Termination Point (television) (2007)
- Camelot
Camelot is a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederic Loewe . It is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T. H. White tetralogy novel The Once and Future King....
(2007 - 2008)
- The Word of Promise (dramatization of the New Testament) (2007) Spoken Voice Role as The Apostle Mark
- Che: Part Two (2008) Mario Monje
- Never Forget (2008)
- Death Toll
Death Toll is a 2008 action film starring DMX, Lou Diamond Phillips, Leila Arcieri and Keshia Knight Pulliam, written and produced by Daniel Garcia of the rap group Kane & Abel and directed by Phenomenon...
(2008)
- Lone Rider
Lone Rider is a 2008 made for television Western. It was directed by David S. Cass, Sr. and stars Lou Diamond Phillips and Stacy Keach....
(2008)
- The Beast
The Beast may refer to:* The Beast , often identified with Satan and the Antichrist- Fictional character :* The Beast is the imagined monster in William Golding's Lord of the Flies...
(Television) (2009) Patrick Swayze
- Love Takes Wing
Love Takes Wing is a Christian drama and the seventh TV movie based on a series of books by Janette Oke. It aired on Hallmark Channel on April 4, 2009...
(2009) Ray Russell
- Angel and the Badman (film) (2009)
- Carny
Carny or carnie is a slang term for a carnival employee, as well as the language they employ. A carny is anyone who runs a "joint" , "grab joint" , game, or ride at a carnival.-Etymology:...
(2009)
- I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! (television) (2009)
- Stargate Universe
Stargate Universe is a Canadian and American military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. The series, created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper which premiered with the first two parts of a three-part episode, "Air" on Syfy on October 2, 2009...
(television) (2009) Colonel David Telford
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