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Upon graduating, Phillips moved to [[New York City]] to look for acting roles. He performed throughout the country in numerous plays, including ''[[The Winter's Tale]]'' at the Baltimore Center Stage, ''[[Of Mice and Men (play)|Of Mice and Men]]'' at the [[Dallas Theater Center]], ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' at the Virginia Stage Company, and ''King o' the Moon'' at the [[Capital Repertory Theatre]]. He is also an actor, associate producer, and assistant director at the award-winning ensemble theater company Second Thought, with whom he has performed in Douglas Post's ''Earth and Sky'', the regional premiere of [[Eric Bogosian]]'s ''Humpty Dumpty'', and the world premiere of Steven Walters' ''Pluck the Day''.
After years of regional theater and recurring roles on the television series ''[[Guiding Light]]'', ''[[As the World Turns]]'', and ''[[All My Children]]'', Phillips had his [[breakout role]] as Billy Riggins on the [[NBC]] sports drama series ''[[Friday Night Lights (TV series)|Friday Night Lights]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/features/6197365.html | title=Catch the magic of Friday Night Lights | publisher=Chron.com - [[Houston Chronicle]] | author=Andrew Dansby | date=January 6, 2009 | accessdate=2010-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2020/06/friday-night-lights-adrianne-palicki-taylor-kitsch-derek-phillips-stacey-oristano-reunite-characters-covid-19-1202952038/|title='Friday Night Lights': Adrianne Palicki, Taylor Kitsch, Derek Phillips & Stacey Oristano Envision Their Characters Today During ATX TV Festival Reunion|date=5 June 2020}}</ref> When the series ended, he went on to voice characters in video games such as ''[[Dishonored]]'', ''[[Aliens: Colonial Marines]]'', ''[[The Last of Us]]'', ''[[Life Is Strange (video game)|Life Is Strange]]'', ''[[Battlefield Hardline]]'', ''[[Fallout 4]]'', ''[[Rise of the Tomb Raider]]'', and ''[[The Walking Dead: Michonne]]''. He received more attention for providing the voice and motion capture of Jerry Anderson in the action-adventure survival horror video game ''[[The Last of Us Part II]]'', and currently voices Heron on the [[Netflix]] animated series ''[[Blood of Zeus]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/03/gods-heroes-netflix-greek-mythology-anime-series-1202574353/|title=Netflix Orders 'Gods & Heroes' Greek Mythology Anime Series|date=March 12, 2019|accessdate=March 12, 2019|website=Deadline.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/blood-of-zeus-netflix-season-2-release-date|title='Blood of Zeus' creators explain how a surprise character sets up Season 2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/arts/television/roadkill-ghosts-blood-zeus.html|title = How Much Watching Time do You Have This Weekend?|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 29 October 2020|last1 = Lyons|first1 = Margaret}}</ref> He currently hosts the Friday Night Lights rewatch podcast "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts" with [[Stacey Oristano]], who played Mindy Collette-Riggins (Tyra Collette's older sister, whom Billy eventually married).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cleareyesfullheartspod.com/ |title=Home |website=cleareyesfullheartspod.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=White |first1=Peter |title=‘Friday Night Lights’ Gets Rewatch Podcast Hosted By Derek Phillips & Stacey Oristano For Cadence13 |url=https://deadline.com/2021/09/friday-night-lights-rewatch-podcast-1234841765/ |publisher=Deadline |date=22 September 2021}}</ref>
==Filmography==
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