Lou Diamond Phillips Biography

Lou Diamond Phillips is an American actor and director. His breakthrough came when he starred in the film La Bamba as Ritchie Valens. 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. Phillips was born at the Subic Bay Naval Station in the Philippines the son of Lucita Umayam Aranas and Gerald Amon Upchurch an officer in the United States Navy. His father was an American of Scotch-Irish and one-quarter Cherokee descent and his mother a native of Candelaria Zambales is of Filipino Spanish descent. He played a role in the first season of the TV series 24 as secret government agent Mark DeSalvo opposite former Young Guns star Kiefer Sutherland. Phillips played the recurring role of FBI agent Ian Edgerton in the television series Numb3rs. Phillips won the second season of the NBC reality series I'm a Celebrity

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