Phillip Edward Van Lear is an American actor. He plays corrections officer Louis Patterson on the show Prison Break

Prison Break

Prison Break is an American television serial drama created by Paul Scheuring, that was broadcast on the Fox Broadcasting Company for four seasons, from 2005 until 2009. The series revolves around two brothers; one has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and the other devises an...

. He has also played in various other movies such as: Barbershop 2: Back in Business

Barbershop 2: Back in Business

Barbershop 2: Black in Business is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, produced by State Street Pictures and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on February 6, 2004...

, Chicago Cab, Night of the Lawyers, A Family Thing

A Family Thing

A Family Thing is a 1996 film starring Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones and Irma P. Hall. It was written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson and directed by Richard Pearce.-Plot:...

and Thieves Quartet

Thieves Quartet

-Cast:*Phillip Van Lear as Jimmy Fuqua*Joe Guastaferro as Art Bledsoe*Michele Cole as Jessica Sutter*James "Ike" Eichling as Mike Quinn*Richard Henzel as Morgan Luce*Jamie Denton as Ray Higgs*Dawn Maxey as Jill Luce...

. He also starred alongside Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011...

, in the film There Are No Children Here, where he plays a thug and a vandal hell-bent on corrupting youth for his own personal gain.

Van Lear was born in Aurora, Illinois

Aurora, Illinois

Aurora is the second most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the 112th largest city in the United States. A suburb of Chicago, located west of the Loop, its population in 2010 was 197,899. Originally founded within Kane County, Aurora's city limits have expanded greatly over the past...

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