Lou Diamond Phillips career has garnered acolades with feature films such as La Bamba. He also co-starred along Edward James Olmos in the inner-city high school drama, Stand and Deliver in a role for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture. In 1988 and 1990, Phillips co-starred with Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland in the cowboy movies Young Guns and Young Guns II, in which he plays Jose Chavez y Chavez, a historical old west outlaw. In Courage Under Fire, a 1996 film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips and Matt Damon, Lou garnered high praise and an award for his memorable supporting role. It is one of the first films to depict the 1991 Gulf War. In 1998 he starred as Cisco, the counterpart of the main character Melvin Smiley (played by Mark Wahlberg, launching his career) in the comedy-action movie The Big Hit.

Lou continues to expand his acting and directing career. In 1996, Phillips made his Broadway debut as the King in Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's The King and I. Phillips won a Theatre World Award and was nominated for both a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his performance.

On September 11, 2007, Phillips joined the touring troup for Lerner and Loewe's Camelot in the role of King Arthur. He also played a role in the first season of the TV series 24 as secret government agent Mark DeSalvo, opposite former Young Guns star Kiefer Sutherland (who played the lead role, Jack Bauer).

Phillips plays the recurring role of FBI agent Ian Edgerton in the television series Numb3rs. Edgerton is an FBI tracker and sniper who works as a sniper instructor at Quantico FBI Academy when he is not working a case in the field.

Phillips has also been cast as Colonel Telford in the Stargate Universe television series. Phillip's role in the series has been confirmed as a recurring character, the would-be commander of the Destiny exhibition who is left behind and works from Earth to bring the crew home.

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