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Lou Diamond Phillips is an American actor and filmmaker with a net worth of $6 million. Ritchie Valens in the 1987 film “La Bamba” was Lou Diamond Phillips’ breakthrough performance. Additional credits include “Stand and Deliver,” “Young Guns,” “Courage Under War,” and “The 33.” Phillips appeared on the Western series “Longmire” and the procedural drama “Prodigal Son” on television.
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Category:
Richest Celebrities › Actors
Net Worth:
$6 Million
Date of Birth:
Feb 17, 1962 (61 years old)
Place of Birth:
U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay
Gender:
Male
Height:
6 ft (1.85 m)
Profession:
Actor, Television Director, Film director, Songwriter, Screenwriter
Nationality:
United States of America
Beginnings in Life and Career
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Lou Diamond Phillips was born in the Philippines in 1962 as Lou Diamond Upchurch at the Subic Bay Naval Station. Gerald, his father, was a Marine KC-130 crew chief of Cherokee and Scots-Irish ancestry. His mother, Lucita, was from Candelaria, Philippines. Phillips took his stepfather’s surname when his father died in 1963. Afterwards, he relocated to Texas and attended Flour Bluff High School in Corpus Christi. Phillips received a BFA in theater from the University of Texas in Arlington for his higher education.
Phillips made his feature acting debut in 1984, with tiny roles in the television movies “Time Bomb” and “Interface.” He featured in an episode of “Dallas” in 1985, and in the low-budget film “Trespasses” in 1986.
Breakthroughs in Cinema
Phillips rose to stardom in 1987 as the lead in the historical drama film “La Bamba,” as Hispanic rock icon Ritchie Valens. The next year saw the release of the high school drama “Stand and Deliver,” starring an Oscar-nominated Edward James Olmos. Phillips earned the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for his role as struggling math student Angel Guzman. Phillips also appeared in “Dakota” and “Young Guns” in 1988; in the latter, he played the Old West outlaw José Chavez y Chavez. Phillips finished the decade with parts in the heist comedy “Disorganized Crime” and the action crime picture “Renegades.”
Future Film Career
Phillips played Jose Chavez y Chavez again in the sequel film “Young Guns II” in 1990. In the same year, he participated in the thriller “A Show of Force,” as well as the horror films “The First Power” and “Demon Wind.”. Phillips’ subsequent credits include the mystery “The Dark Wind,” the thriller “Ambition,” which he also wrote, the adventure picture “Shadow of the Wolf,” which costarred Toshiro Mifune, Jennifer Tilly, and Donald Sutherland, and the action thriller “Extreme Justice.” Phillips made his directing debut in 1994 with “Dangerous Touch,” in which he also acted. He also directed and acted in “Sioux City” that year. Phillips appeared in films such as “Teresa’s Tattoo,” “Boulevard,” “Courage Under War,” “The Big Hit,” “Brokedown Palace,” and “Bats” during the rest of the 1990s.
Phillips maintained his active acting career in the 2000s, appearing in “Picking Up the Pieces,” “Supernova,” “A Better Way to Die,” “Knight Club,” “Route 666,” “Lone Hero,” and “Stark Raving Crazy” between 2000 and 2002. He then appeared in “Hollywood Murder,” “Absolon,” “Fingerprints,” and the second installment of Steven Soderbergh’s two-part “Che.” Phillips’ other film credits include “Transparency,” “Filly Brown,” “Sanitarium,” “Sequoia,” “Sky,” and “The 33,” which is based on the real-life 2010 Chile mining accident.
Television Career
Phillips appeared in episodes of “Tales from the Crypt,” “Spin City,” “The Outer Limits,” and “Adventures from the Book of Virtues” in the 1990s.In addition, he appeared in the television films “The Wharf Rat,” “Undertow,” and “In a Class of His Own.” Phillips had a recurring role in the supernatural drama series “Wolf Lake” from 2001 to 2002. He also appeared as secret government agent Mark DeSalvo in the first season of the Fox action series “24” in 2002. Further supporting roles followed on the sitcom “George Lopez,” where he played Lopez’s half-brother, and the crime thriller “Numb3rs,” where he played FBI agent Ian Edgerton on a recurrent basis. In the early to mid-2000s, Phillips featured in a number of television movies, including “Red Water,” “The Road to Hope Rose,” “Gone, But Not Forgotten,” “Murder at the Presidio,” and “Alien Express.” He appeared in the science-fiction miniseries “The Triangle,” which was about the Bermuda Triangle’s secrets.
Phillips’ other television credits include appearances on Psych, The Beast, Chuck, Cougar Town, and Happily Divorced, in addition to the television movie “Metal Tornado.”From 2009 through 2011, he appeared as “Stargate Universe” on the SyFy channel features Colonel Telford.After that, in 2012, he began costarring on the Western series “Longmire,” playing the titular character’s Native American closest buddy. Phillips’ later credits include the crime series “Blindspot,” the television movie “The Night Stalker,” the children’s animated series “Elena of Avalor,” the sitcom “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” the crime drama “NCIS: He played NYPD Officer Gil Arroyo in “New Orleans,” “Goliath,” “Blue Bloods,” and “Prodigal Son.”
Personal Life
Phillips met Julie Cypher, the associate director of “Trespasses,” on the set of the film. In 1987, they tied the knot. After their divorce in 1990, Cypher came out as a lesbian and shortly established a long-term relationship with singer Melissa Etheridge. Julie and Melissa had two children throughout their relationship, both of whom were born by Julie and fathered by musician David Crosby via artificial insemination.
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Phillips was then briefly engaged to Jennifer Tilly, whom he had met while filming “Shadow of the Wolf.” After this, in 1994, he married Kelly Preston, with whom he had three daughters: twins Grace and Isabella, as well as Lili. The couple split in 2003 and divorced in 2007. Following their divorce, Phillips dated makeup artist Yvonne Boismier. He was accused with domestic assault against her in 2006. They married the next year, though, and had a son, Indigo.
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