{"id":238273,"date":"2026-04-07T05:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238273\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:12:28","slug":"la-bamba-star-lou-diamond-phillips-to-be-honored-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/238273\/","title":{"rendered":"La Bamba star Lou Diamond Phillips to be honored in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas-raised actor Lou Diamond Phillips<\/a> will be honored at the 2026 Dallas International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

The Young Guns actor was born at a naval station in the Philippines, but his family moved to Texas shortly after his birth. Phillips grew up in Flour Bluff, a small neighborhood of Corpus Christi, and later graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington<\/a> in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n

Phillips is set to receive the “DIFF Dallas Star Award” at this year’s festival, which runs from April 23-30.<\/p>\n

The 64-year-old actor will be honored at a luncheon hosted by Virgin Hotels Dallas on April 24. There, he will discuss his latest film, Keep Quiet, onstage with “NBC 5 Today” anchor Deborah Ferguson. The film will then have its North American premiere at the festival the following day.<\/p>\n

“We are delighted that Lou Diamond Phillips will be joining us to accept the DIFF Dallas Star Award and to share his latest film,” DIFF Dallas CEO Beth Wilbins said in a press release. “Adding his name to the list of previous recipients of the Star Award has special meaning to everyone who has known him over the years through DIFF.”<\/p>\n

Previous award winners include Lauren Bacall, Helen Hunt, David Lynch, Bill Paxton, Sidney Pollack, Charlize Theron and more.<\/p>\n

Phillips has been acting since the mid-1980s.\u00a0His first credited role came in 1984 as “Punk 1” in the sci-fi film Interface. He next appeared in episodes of Dallas and Miami Vice.<\/p>\n

Phillips’ breakout role came as Chicano rocker Ritchie Valens in 1987’s La\u00a0Bamba. The film was nominated for Best Drama at the Golden Globes and also landed a Grammy nomination for its soundtrack.<\/p>\n

The following year in 1988, Phillips appeared in two more famous roles in Stand and Deliver and Young Guns. From there, Phillips was off to the races and appeared in a number of film and television roles over the next few decades.<\/p>\n

In addition to acting, Phillips has directed a few movies and several episodes of television.<\/p>\n

The Dallas International Film Festival is celebrating its 20th year in 2026.\u00a0More than 120 films will play this year’s festival, with some entries making their world premiere like One in a Million and Blood Behind Us. Both films were made in North Texas.<\/p>\n

Other films with Texas ties playing at the festival include $10 Cowboy, a documentary about former Dallas singer\u00a0Charley Crockett<\/a>, and Thank You For Listening\u00a0about Dallas singer\u00a0Joshua Ray Walker<\/a>‘s cancer battle.<\/p>\n

There’s a star pass ($300) for all events, a festival pass ($250) for all screenings, a film pass ($100) for seniors\/students and a short film package ($75). Individual passes are also available for each screening.<\/p>\n

Brayden Garcia Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas-raised actor Lou Diamond Phillips will be honored at the 2026 Dallas International Film Festival. The Young Guns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,91555,87998],"class_list":{"0":"post-238273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-tp-celebrities","12":"tag-tp-dallas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}