Philip Nathanael Johnson was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala in a small apartment complex. He grew up moving to and from the States, living in Guatemala and Ecuador. At age 17, he was planning to join the Air Force, but decided to pursue an acting career instead and joined the "Covenant Players", a traveling theater company based out of Oxnard, California, and toured with them for two years. Before moving to Los Angeles, Philip lived in Peru for almost three years before returning to the States in 2007 to work in film and television. Since then, he has had success both in front and behind the camera, also working on set as a director and camera operator.