Derek Phillips

Known for ActingBorn 1976-04-18 (age 50)Miami, Florida, USA

Film and stage actor Derek Phillips was born in Miami, Florida on April 18, 1976, and attended Baylor University where he received a BFA in acting. Upon graduation Derek moved to New York and began acting professionally in both television and regional theatre performing throughout the country in numerous plays including "The Winter's Tale" (Baltimore Center Stage), "Of Mice and Men" (Dallas Theater Center), "The Glass Menagerie" (Virginia Stage Company), and "King o' The Moon" (Capital Repertory Theatre). After years of regional theatre and recurring roles on "The Guiding Light", "As the World Turns", and "All My Children" Derek finally got his break playing the emotionally charged role of Billy Riggins on the critically acclaimed NBC television show "Friday Night Lights." Derek is also an associate producer, assistant director and resident actor for the award-winning, ensemble based theatre company Second Thought Theatre, where he has performed as an actor in the regional premiere of Eric Bogosian's "Humpty Dumpty", Douglas Post's "Earth and Sky", and the world premiere of Steven Walters "Pluck the Day."Read more

Movies & web series

The Rookie

Chicago Fire

The Mentalist

9-1-1

Grimm

Criminal Minds

Scorpion

Grey's Anatomy

The Terminal List

SEAL Team

S.W.A.T.

Castle

Friday Night Lights

Creature Commandos

STRAW

Blood of Zeus

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

NCIS: Hawaiʻi

The Closer

Longmire

FBI: International

Them

Secret Level

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Private Practice

Parenthood

Medium

Injustice

For the People

Shooter

42

Scandal

Looking: The Movie

Body of Proof

Numb3rs

The Anthrax Attacks: In the Shadow of 9/11

Rosewood

Lake George

Point Defiance

Betrayed at 17

Retake

Doc McStuffins

Murder in the First

Game of Silence

Ritual

A Play

Inside

Serum