![]() Lou Diamond Phillips in 1987, the year that the film " La Bamba" was released Stand and Deliver was filmed before La Bamba, but it was released a year later. Working to master the subject, he develops a friendship with his teacher. ![]() He plays Angel David Guzman, a cholo gangster who is inspired by his math teacher, Jaime Escalante, to excel at calculus. In 1988, Phillips co-starred with Edward James Olmos in the inner-city high school drama Stand and Deliver, in a role for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. Prior to his cinematic breakthrough, he starred in the Miami Vice episode "Red Tape" (March 13, 1987), portraying detective Bobby Diaz. Phillips' big break came with the starring role in La Bamba (1987) in which he played early rocker Ritchie Valens. The first low-budget film in which he starred was called Trespasses. He graduated from Flour Bluff High School in Corpus Christi in 1980 and from the University of Texas at Arlington with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drama. After his father's death, he was adopted by his stepfather and his surname was changed to Phillips. Phillips was named after the US Marine Leland "Lou" Diamond. His father was an American of Scots-Irish and Cherokee descent. His mother, a native of Candelaria, Zambales, is Filipina. Phillips was born February 17, 1962, at the Subic Bay Naval Station in the Philippines, the son of Lucita Umayam Aranas and Gerald Amon Upchurch (1935–1963), a Marine KC-130 crew chief. He played New York City Police Lieutenant Gil Arroyo on Prodigal Son on FOX from 2019 to 2021. ![]() In the television series Longmire, he played a main character named Henry Standing Bear. Phillips' other notable films include Young Guns (1988), Young Guns II (1990), Courage Under Fire (1996), The Big Hit (1998), Brokedown Palace (1999), Che (2008), and The 33 (2015). Phillips 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. For Stand and Deliver (1988), Phillips was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won an Independent Spirit Award. His breakthrough came when he starred as Ritchie Valens in the biographical drama film La Bamba (1987). Louis Diamond Phillips ( born Upchurch February 17, 1962) is a Filipino-American actor and film director.
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