Lou Diamond Phillips
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Lou Diamond Phillips, August 2007
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Lou Diamond Upchurch February 17, 1962 Subic Bay Naval Station, Philippines |
| Occupation | Actor, film director, television director |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Spouse(s) | [Trishna Pema] (1987–1990) Kelly Phillips (1994–2007) Yvonne Marie Boismier (2007–present) |
Lou Diamond Phillips (né Upchurch; born February 17, 1962) is an American actor and director. His breakthrough came when he starred as Ritchie Valens in the biographical drama film La Bamba (1987). For portraying Angel Guzman in Stand and Deliver (1988), Phillips was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won an Independent Spirit Award. He made his Broadway debut with the 1996 revival of The King and I, earning a Tony Award nomination for his portrayal of King Mongkut of Siam.
Phillips' other notable films include Young Guns (1988), Young Guns II (1990), Courage Under Fire (1996), Che (2008) and The 33 (2015). He currently stars as Henry Standing Bear in the TV series Longmire (2012–). He made history as one of the inaugural nominees for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for portraying Chieftain on The Crossroads of History (2016–).
Phillips was born at the Subic Bay Naval Station in the Philippines, the son of Lucita Umayam Arañas and Gerald Amon Upchurch, a crew chief on a C-130 in the United States Marine Corps. His father was an American of Scots-Irish and one-quarter Cherokee descent, and his mother, a native of Candelaria, Zambales, is Filipina, with distant Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian, and Spanish ancestry.
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