Birth Name:
Lou Diamond Upchurch
Birth Place:
Phillipines
Ethnicity:
Scottish, Irish, Hawaiian, Cherokee, Filipino, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese
Star of the movie Young Guns has a Father of Scotch-Irish, Hawaiian and Cherokee Descent. His mother was a Filipina of Japanese, Chinese and Spanish descent.
His Cherokee ancestry is said to be one-eighth.
He stated “People often mistake me for a Latino or even Indian, so I always mention in interviews that I am Filipino and I’m proud to be one”.
http://www.2g.org/home/news/meettheartist/currentnews-loudiamondphilips.shtml
Celebrities sharing the same heritage:
Oh. I’m mostly English. Some Scottish. Some Irish. Some German. With a Cherokee great great grandma on maternal grandad’s side. And some Blackfoot wandering round in there on the maternal (German) grandma’s mom’s. Got pointy German nose and thick Scottish hair. Look kinda like Brent Spiner when I/ he’s had a bad day. /Sigh.
We can’t all luck out and be as handsome as Phillips.
Always thought he had a very distinctive look. Very open yet no-nonsense. Played best bliddy character in Young Guns. – His hard-to-pin-down (ethnically) features are probably a curse/blessing: casting people in Hollywood tend to look only for Anglo actors unless the script actually says specifically “Black doctor” or “Asian nurse” etc. (sexism same: “woman doctor” or “male nurse” has to be spelled out in script). But makes him… versatile for ‘ethnic’ roles.
Bright side: he’s great in sf. Interracial marriage is on the upswing. So that means more n more of us are gonna look more n more heinz. He has a nice head-start. So… casting for say 300 years in the future… Puts a friendly face on things, if we turn out so handsome.
I thought he was Native American and Latino (Mexican) all this time.
What ever Lou Diamond Phillips is—He sure is handsome and can really act!!!
Would love to see him in more TV and movies!!!
im filipino…and african-american, and french, and spanish from somewhere, lou has a huge mix kinda
Damn, what the hell.isn’t he a little bit of everything.
Lou looks VERY Filipino, at least he acknowledges it
he look pervuvian like an inca. i don’t see no whtie in him.
Its amazing that he played such a convincing Mexican role in the movie La Bamba.
He’s a BIG MUTT but he’s basically Asian mixed White
Scottish, Irish, Spanish = White/Caucasian
Hawaiian, Cherokee, Filipino, Japanese, Chinese = Asian/Mogoloid race
“People often mistake me for a Latino or even Indian, so I always mention in interviews that I am Filipino and I’m proud to be one”
that’s because people from the Americas are part of the Mogoloid race that’s why U would kinda look like them. As for Indian that’s cause ur Brown
wow nice mix