Person
Lou Diamond Phillips
Born 17 February 1962 64 years old Subic Bay Naval Base, Olongapo City, Zambales, Philippines Who else is 64? → TMDB ↗
Lou Diamond Phillips is an American film, television, and stage actor as well as director and writer. His breakthrough role came when he starred as Ritchie Valens in the film La Bamba. His other best known film roles are as Jose Chavez y Chavez in Young Guns I and II, Angel Guzman in Stand and Deliver for which he earned a supporting actor Golden Globe Award nomination, Hank Storm in Renegades, Jesse Rainfeather Goldman in Sioux City in which he was also director, Staff Sergeant John Monfriez in Courage Under Fire, Roy Knox in Brokedown Palace, and Wanda in Hollywood Homicide. He has also starred in many TV movies.
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The numbers
22age in their first credit on record (1984)
42years on screen and counting
8credits in 2016, their busiest year
148dated credits on record
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Movie credits
Young Guns III
as Chavez
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City Kid
as Harley
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The Ambulance Chaser
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Widow
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Drowning
as Tommy Nuts
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One in a Million
Age: 64 Casa Grande
2026
Age: 64 Stranger Things: Tales from '85 Theatrical Preview
2026as Daniel Fischer (voice)
Age: 63 Gangland
2025as Teddy Sharpe
Age: 63 Et Tu
2025as Brent Barrymore
Age: 63 Aguadilla
2025as Benicio
Age: 62 Get Fast
2024as The Cowboy
Age: 62 Werewolves
2024as Dr. Aranda
Age: 62 Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
2024as The Spectre (voice)
Age: 62 Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two
2024as The Spectre (voice)
Age: 61 Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
2024as The Spectre / Owlman (voice)
Age: 60 Easter Sunday
2022as Lou Diamond Phillips
Age: 60 DC Showcase - Constantine: The House of Mystery
2022as Spectre (voice)
Age: 58 Adverse
2021as Dr. Cruz
Age: 57 Big Kill
2019as Johnny Kane
Age: 56 Urban Country
2018as Warden Tono
Age: 55 Avenge the Crows
2017as Casper
Age: 55 Quest
2017as Gus
Age: 55 Elena of Avalor: Realm of the Jaquins
2017as Victor Delgado (voice)
Age: 55 Cop and a Half: New Recruit
2017as Detective Simmons
Age: 55 Created Equal
2017as Monsignor Renzulli
Age: 54 The Last Train
2017as Gunner
Age: 54 The Night Stalker
2016as Richard Ramirez
Age: 54 Sky
2016
Age: 53 The 33
2015as Luis Urzua 'Don Lucho'
Age: 52 Sequoia
2014as Colin
Age: 51 Filly Brown
2013as Jose Tonorio
Age: 51 Sanitarium
2013as James Silo
Age: 50 Lucy in the Sky with Diamond
2013as Lou Diamond Phillips
Age: 49 Metal Tornado
2011as Michael Edwards
Age: 48 Takedown
2010as David
Age: 47 The Invited
2010as Garrett
Age: 47 Angel and the Badman
2009as Quirt Evans
Age: 47 Carny
2009as Sheriff Atlas
Age: 47 Love Takes Wing
2009as Ray Russell
Age: 46 Che: Part Two
2008as Mario Monje
Age: 46 Death Toll
2008as Mayor Padial
Age: 46 Lone Rider
2008as Bobby Hattaway
Age: 46 Never Forget
2008as Frank Hill
Age: 45 Termination Point
2007as Dr. Daniel Winter
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Age: 45 Backyards & Bullets
2007
Age: 44 Fingerprints
2006as Doug
Age: 44 El Cortez
2006as Manny DeSilva
Age: 44 Aquaman
2006as Tom Curry
Age: 44 Striking Range
2006as Eugene "Vash" Vasher
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Age: 43 One for the Money: The Birth of Rock & Roll
2006
Age: 43 Alien Express
2005as Vic Holden
Age: 43 Murder at the Presidio
2005as CWO James Chandler
Age: 42 Gone But Not Forgotten
2005as Alan Page
Age: 41 The Trail to Hope Rose
2004as Keenan Deerfield
Age: 41 Red Water
2003as John Sanders
Age: 41 Hollywood Homicide
2003as Wanda
Age: 41 Absolon
2003as Walters
Age: 40 Malevolent
2002as Jack Lucas
Age: 40 Stark Raving Mad
2002as Gregory
Age: 40 Lone Hero
2002as Bart
Age: 39 An Untold Triumph: America's Filipino Soldiers
2002as Narrator (voice)
Age: 39 Route 666
2001as Jack La Roca
Age: 39 A Better Way to Die
2001as William Dexter
Age: 38 Hangman
2001as Detective Nick Roos
Age: 38 Knight Club
2001as Dirk Gueron
Age: 38 Picking Up the Pieces
2000as Officer Alfonso
Age: 37 Supernova
2000as Yerzy Penalosa
Age: 37 Bats
1999as Sheriff Emmett Kimsey
Age: 37 In a Class of His Own
1999as Ricardo 'Rich' Donato
Age: 37 Brokedown Palace
1999as Roy Knox
Age: 36 Another Day in Paradise
1998as Jewels (uncredited)
Age: 36 The Big Hit
1998as Cisco
Age: 35 Smoke Alarm: The Unfiltered Truth About Cigarettes
1997as Camel
Age: 35 The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997as Abba Kovner / Eliahu Rosenberg (voices)
Age: 34 Courage Under Fire
1996as Staff Sergeant John Monfriez
Age: 34 Undertow
1996as Jack Ketchum
Age: 34 The Wharf Rat
1996as Petey Martin
Age: 33 Dangerous Touch
1995as Mick Burroughs
Age: 32 Override
1994as Cal
Age: 32 Boulevard
1994as Hassan
Age: 32 Sioux City
1994as Jesse Rainfeather Goldman
Age: 32 Teresa's Tattoo
1994as Wheeler
Age: 31 Wind in the Wire
1993
Age: 31 Extreme Justice
1993as Jeff Powers
Age: 30 The Panama Deception
1992as English Voice-over
Age: 30 The Dark Wind
1992as Officer Jim Chee
Age: 30 Shadow of the Wolf
1992as Agaguk
Age: 29 Ambition
1991as Mitchell Osgood
Age: 28 Harley
1991as Harley
Age: 28 Young Guns II
1990as Jose Chavez y Chavez
Age: 28 Demon Wind
1990as Demon
Age: 28 A Show of Force
1990as Jesus Fuentes
Age: 28 The First Power
1990as Det. Russell Logan
Age: 27 Renegades
1989as Hank Storm
Age: 27 Disorganized Crime
1989as Ray Forgy
Age: 26 Dakota
1988as John Dakota
Age: 26 Young Guns
1988as Chavez y Chavez
Age: 26 Stand and Deliver
1988as Angel Guzman
Age: 25 The Three Kings
1987as Tag
Age: 25 La Bamba
1987as Ritchie Valens
Age: 24 Trespasses
1986as Drifter
Age: 23 Interface
1985as Punk no. 1
Age: 22 Time Bomb
1984as Terrorist
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TV credits
Age: 64 Stranger Things: Tales from '85
2026as Daniel Fischer (voice)
Age: 63 The Chair Company
2025as Jeff Levjman
Age: 60 Quantum Leap
2022as Shepherd Barnes
Age: 59 The Legend of Vox Machina
2022as Gentry (voice)
Age: 59 The Cleaning Lady
2022as Joe Fabroa
Age: 59 Trese
2021as Mayor Sancho Santamaria (voice)
Age: 57 Prodigal Son
2019as Gil Arroyo
Age: 56 The Masked Singer
2019as Mantis
Age: 54 Search Party
2016as John
Age: 54 Graves
2016
Age: 54 Goliath
2016as Oscar Suarez
Age: 54 Bull
2016as Colonel Victor Taggert
Age: 54 Elena of Avalor
2016as Victor Delgado (voice)
Age: 54 The Ranch
2016as Clint
Age: 53 Blindspot
2015as Saúl Guerrero
Age: 53 Another Period
2015as Langundo
Age: 52 NCIS: New Orleans
2014as Cedric Gossett
Age: 51 Ironside
2013as Stuart White
Age: 51 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2013as Jeff Romero
Age: 50 Longmire
2012as Henry Standing Bear
Age: 48 Blue Bloods
2010as Louis Delgado
Age: 48 Hawaii Five-0
2010as Wes Lincoln
Age: 47 Stargate Universe
2009as David Telford
Age: 47 Cougar Town
2009as Lou Diamond Phillips
Age: 47 Southland
2009as Officer Danny Ferguson
Age: 46 The Beast
2009as Capone
Age: 45 Chuck
2007as Augusto Gaez
Age: 44 Aquaman
2006as Tom Curry
Age: 44 Psych
2006as Lars Ewing
Age: 43 The Triangle
2005as Meeno Paloma
Age: 43 Criminal Minds
2005as Sheriff Clifford Mason
Age: 42 American Dad!
2005as Rusty (voice)
Age: 42 Numb3rs
2005as Agent Ian Edgerton
Age: 42 Jack & Bobby
2004
Age: 41 The Handler
2003
Age: 40 The Twilight Zone
2002as Ritchie Almarez
Age: 40 George Lopez
2002as George L.
Age: 39 24
2001as Mark DeSalvo
Age: 39 Wolf Lake
2001as John Kanin
Age: 39 Night Visions
2001as Tom Fallor (segment "Dead Air")
Age: 37 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999as Victor Paul Gitano
Age: 36 Family Guy
1999as Tribe Leader (voice)
Age: 34 Spin City
1996as Nate
Age: 34 Spin City
1996as Nate (archive footage)
Age: 34 Arli$$
1996as Gillis Limoges
Age: 33 The Outer Limits
1995as Captain Cotter McCoy
Age: 33 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995as Coatl (voice)
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Age: 28 The General Motors Playwrights Theater
1991as Clash
Age: 27 Tales from the Crypt
1989as Jerry
Age: 22 Miami Vice
1984as Detective Bobby Diaz