Philip Cabrita

Philip Cabrita
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Portrays:	STO Martyr #1
Date of Birth:	October 10,1974
Date of Death:	Missing required parameter 1=month!
Age:	51
Nationality:	CAN
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Philip Cabrita is a Canadian actor and Vancouver radio personality, born October 10, 1974, in Vancouver, British Columbia, who portrayed STO Martyr #1, one of the Soldiers of the One operatives during the Battle of Atlas Arena in Caprica's "Apotheosis", the series finale that aired in January 2011 after Syfy cancelled the series the previous October. Cabrita has been credited under several variants of his name across his screen and music work, and is separately known in Vancouver's hip-hop and broadcasting scene by the stage name DJ Flipout.

Career

Television and film

Cabrita's screen career consists primarily of background and minor supporting roles in television and film productions shot in and around Vancouver. His earliest credited screen appearance was as Ramirez in the 2005 short film Culebras, followed the next year by an appearance, credited as "Philip 'Flip Out' Cabrita," in the short film Moments. Through 2007, he took small parts across several Vancouver-shot genre television series, playing a prison guard in the Painkiller Jane episode "Higher Court," a scientist in the science-fiction film Project Grey, a bottle picker in the Intelligence episode "A Sweetheart Deal with the Devil," and a stage manager in the Kaya episode "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." That same year, he appeared in the direct-to-video feature Bordello Diaries as a character credited as "The Mary-K-Dildo-Man."

He played a mechanic in the 2008 film Ace of Hearts and, the following year, Javier in the supernatural horror film Case 39, as well as a store clerk, credited as "Phil Cabrita," in the Fringe episode "Of Human Action."

In 2010, alongside his role in Caprica, Cabrita appeared as "Flip Out" in the Chasing Mood episode "The Wake Up Call" and as Detective James Young in the True Justice episode "From Russia with Drugs." Several years later, he appeared as Man #1 in the The Flash episode "Things You Can't Outrun," which premiered October 21, 2014, and as Gomez in the 2016 comedy sequel Kindergarten Cop 2.

His credits became more frequent in the late 2010s. In 2017 he played Jail Guard #1 in the television film Menendez: Blood Brothers, and in 2018 alone he appeared as Enraged Person #3 in the Altered Carbon episode "Fallen Angel," as Townsperson #1 in the The X-Files episode "Familiar," as a cashier in the The Crossing episode "A Shadow Out of Time," and as a "Guy in Line" in the pilot episode of A Million Little Things. His most recent screen credit is a voice role, billed as "Phillip Cabrita," as a "Cop Chatter Talent" in the 2019 racing video game Need for Speed: Heat.

Radio and DJ work

Outside of acting, Cabrita has built a long career in Vancouver radio and nightlife under the stage name "DJ Flipout." According to a 2004 newspaper profile, the name dates to his time as a student at Burnaby Central High School in Burnaby, British Columbia, where he began rapping and needed a handle for himself. The same profile traced his path from performing in his own rap group, Anger Management Project, to working as a club and radio DJ.

He and fellow CiTR campus radio host Jay Swing began as hosts of a Saturday-night hip-hop show, "The Show" with Checkmate, at the University of British Columbia's CiTR station before launching Elements, a self-published hip-hop magazine, in May 1995. Working with little outside help, the pair wrote, designed, and distributed most of each issue themselves, while AA Crew graffiti artists supplied the magazine's illustrations; persistent missed deadlines were a recurring theme of the publication and eventually contributed to its end after eight issues. Cabrita's involvement in the city's hip-hop scene during this period also extended to breakdancing; in 1997, he toured as a B-boy with the Canadian hip-hop group Rascalz alongside American rapper KRS-One.

He and Jay Swing went on to host Straight Goods, a hip-hop mixshow on Vancouver commercial radio that ran from 1998 to 2006 and was named "Best Mixshow in Canada" by the Canadian Urban Music Industry in two consecutive years. During the show's run, Cabrita interviewed visiting hip-hop artists, including Afrika Bambaataa, who subsequently made him an honorary member of the Universal Zulu Nation.

Cabrita has been on the air at Vancouver's commercial hit-music station since its 2002 launch as The Beat 94.5, and since 2006 has hosted a daily, 100-percent-live, in-studio mixshow, "The 5 O'Clock Traffic Jam," on the station, which later rebranded as 94.5 Virgin Radio. By January 2010, the program aired every weekday with co-host Holly Conway. By 2015, the Georgia Straight reported that Cabrita had been on the station's air for over a decade.

Cabrita was among the competitors at the first Red Bull 3Style event, a one-off DJ contest staged at Vancouver's Atlantis nightclub in 2007 that subsequently grew into the international Red Bull Thre3Style World DJ Championships. Cabrita hosted the Vancouver heat of the Red Bull Thre3Style DJ competition at the Commodore Ballroom in 2009, an event he recalled as having drawn a line of fans that stretched almost to Robson Street. The following year, he competed himself as one of eight finalists vying to be crowned Vancouver's top party DJ, comparing the atmosphere of the prior year's event to "a rock concert." Contestants were required to build a fifteen-minute set incorporating at least three distinct musical genres, with the Vancouver winner going on to represent the city at the national final during Toronto's Canadian Music Week. According to his own promotional materials, Cabrita went on to win the 2010 Vancouver heat and advance to the national final, and he was also named Vancouver DJ of the Year at that year's Stylus DJ Awards. Cabrita went on to become the host of the Thre3Style World Finals. Covering the 2013 finals in Toronto, the website Thump, a music vertical of Vice, singled him out as "the host with the most," describing him emceeing the week's events alongside a judging panel that included DJ Jazzy Jeff and Kid Koala. By 2015, the Georgia Straight described him as the championship's official host across editions held in Vancouver, Toronto, Baku, Azerbaijan, and Tokyo.

In June 2010, Cabrita took part in a five-hour outdoor tribute to Michael Jackson at the intersection of Granville and Georgia streets in downtown Vancouver, marking the one-year anniversary of the singer's death. The newspaper covering the event described him as having DJ'd professionally in the city for nearly two decades by that point. Asked about moving Jackson's catalogue from the club circuit out onto the street, he said, "I was super sad, but I like hearing his music outdoors."

Cabrita has continued to perform as Flipout at major Vancouver-area public events. Ahead of the city's Concord New Year's Eve celebration on December 31, 2017, where he both performed and supplied music for a fireworks display, he told Daily Hive that the event was "all-inclusive and great for all crowds." He has also performed as one half of the DJ duo Los Hermanos Libres. More recently, he performed at the City of Surrey's annual Tree Lighting Festival in November 2024, providing a holiday dance set following the event's fire-and-light finale.

Personal life

In the 2004 profile that traced the origin of his stage name, Cabrita described growing up across the street from St. Theresa's, a Vancouver Catholic church where he served as an altar boy as often as three times a week, including both Sunday morning Masses, without, by his account, ever once drinking the sacramental wine. The same profile identified him at the time as a resident of downtown Vancouver.

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