Blair Underwood
Gender: Male
Born: 25th August 1964 (currently 47 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: L.A. Law, LAX, High Incident, A Different World, City of Angels, 21 Jump Street, Dirty Sexy Money, Fatherhood, In Treatment, Company Town, The Event, Sex and the City, One Life to Live, Downtown (1986)
Movies: Full Frontal, Murder in Mississippi, Mama Flora's Family, Set It Off, Rules of Engagement, Just Cause, Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion, Krush Groove, Something New, Posse, Soul of the Game, Fronterz, Malibu's Most Wanted, Deep Impact, Weather Girl, Mistrial, G, Heat Wave, How Did It Feel?, The Hit, Truth Be Told, Asunder, The Wishing Tree, Gattaca, The Golden Blaze, The Art of Getting By, I Will Follow, Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, Whispers of Angels: A Story of the Underground Railroad, Full Frontal, Macbett (The Caribbean Macbeth)
Blair Erwin Underwood (born August 25, 1964) is an American television and film actor. He is perhaps best known as headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins from the NBC legal drama L.A. Law, a role he portrayed for seven years. He has gained critical acclaim throughout his career, receiving numerous Golden Globe Award nominations, three NAACP Image Awards and 1 Grammy Award. In recent years, he has appeared on The New Adventures of Old Christine, Dirty Sexy Money and In Treatment and was in NBC's The Event.
Underwood was born in Tacoma, Washington, the son of Marilyn Ann Scales, an interior decorator, and Frank Eugene Underwood, Sr., a United States Army colonel. As a result of his father's military career, Underwood lived on bases and Army Posts in the United States and Stuttgart, Germany, during his childhood. Blair attended Petersburg High School in Petersburg, Virginia. He went on to attend the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is an honorary member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.
Underwood's feature film debut was the 1985 movie Krush Groove. His 1985 appearance on The Cosby Show landed him a short stint on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live as Bobby
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