Career.
A storyteller across screen and stage, Lou Diamond Phillips moved from defining performances in La Bamba, Stand and Deliver and Young Guns to enduring television roles, acclaimed theatre, voice work, directing and writing.
Film
From Ritchie Valens in La Bamba and Angel David Guzman in Stand and Deliver to independent films and character work.
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Television
From Longmire and Prodigal Son to The Cleaning Lady, a continuing run of singular television characters.
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Longmire
Henry Standing Bear
Series Regular · 63 episodes · Director of 1 episode
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Wolf Lake
John Kanin / Noah Cassidy
9 episodes
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The Chair Company
Jeff Levjman
Recurring · 6 episodes
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Prodigal Son
Gil Arroyo
Series Regular · 33 episodes · Director of 1 episode
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From the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of The King and I to touring, regional theatre and new work.
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Voice
Animation, audiobooks, games and radio drama — a parallel performance career built with the voice.
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The Tinderbox novels.
Lou’s fiction introduces an original science-fantasy world, developed across two novels and illustrated in collaboration with Yvonne Phillips.
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The Pipefitters.
Alongside his screen and stage career, Lou became a working member of the Los Angeles roots-rock band The Pipefitters.
As a vocalist and songwriter, he helped shape the group’s original material and joined a touring history that stretched from Southern California clubs to Farm Aid VI.
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