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Lou Diamond Phillips (né Upchurch; born February 17, 1962) is an American actor and director.〔 (The New York Times )〕〔(Los Angeles Times )〕 His breakthrough came when he starred in the film ''La Bamba'' as Ritchie Valens. He earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor 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''. ==Early life== Phillips was born at the Subic Bay Naval Station in the Philippines, the son of Lucita Umayam Arañas and Gerald Steven Upchurch, a crew chief on a C-130 in the United States Marine Corp..〔〔(Lou Diamond Phillips Biography )〕〔; no longer online, transcript at http://www.ritchievalens.org/thereturnofthenative.html〕 His father was an American of Scotch-Irish and one-quarter Cherokee descent, and his mother, a native of Candelaria, Zambales, is Filipino, with distant Chinese, Hawaiian and Spanish ancestry.〔〔(Second Generation )〕 Phillips was named after Marine legend Leland "Lou" Diamond.〔(My name is Lou Diamond Phillips, an American citizen of Filipino descent )〕 After his father died, he took his stepfather's surname "Phillips" as his own.〔 He was raised in Texas, where he attended Flour Bluff High School in Corpus Christi, graduating in 1980. He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a BFA in Drama. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lou Diamond Phillips」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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