Sunshine Boy... Lou Diamond Phillips

Name: Lou Diamond Phillips
Birth Name: Louis Upchurch
Height: 5' 9"
Sex: M
Nationality: Filipino
Birth Date: February 17, 1962
Birth Place: Subic Bay Naval Station, Phillipines
Profession: actor
Education: University of Texas at Arlington in Arlington, Texas (BFA in drama)
Adam Roarke's Film Actors Lab, Dallas, Texas (studied Film Technique)
Husband/Wife: Kelly Phillips (model; married on April 24, 1994; divorced in February 2005), Julie Cypher (assistant director; born on August 24, 1964; married on September 17, 1986; divorced on August 5, 1990)
Relationship: Yvonne Boismier (makeup artist)
Father: Gerald Upchurch (naval officer; died when Lou was young)
Mother: Filipino/Hawaiian heritage
Step Father: George Phillips (naval officer)
Daughter: Lili Jordan (born on September 26, 1999), twins: Isabella Patricia Phillips and Grace Moorea Phillips (born on October 5, 1997)
Claim to fame: as Ritchie Valens in La Bamba (1987)