Blair Erwin Underwood was born on August 25,1964 and is an American actor.
19 Facts About Blair Underwood
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Blair Underwood has received two Golden Globe Award nominations, five NAACP Image Awards, one Daytime Emmy Award, and one Grammy Award.
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Blair Underwood was born in Tacoma, Washington, the son of Marilyn Ann Scales, an interior decorator, and Frank Eugene Blair Underwood Sr.
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Blair Underwood lived on bases and Army Posts in the United States and Stuttgart, Germany throughout his childhood due to his father's military career.
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Blair Underwood went on to attend the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is an honorary member of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.
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Blair Underwood later co-starred in the short-lived CBS crime drama series Downtown from 1986 to 1987, and guest-starred on Scarecrow and Mrs King and 21 Jump Street.
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Blair Underwood had a supporting role as a geneticist in the science fiction film Gattaca and in the disaster film Deep Impact.
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In 1996, Blair Underwood returned to series television with ABC police drama series, High Incident.
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Blair Underwood co-starred opposite Cicely Tyson in the 1998 miniseries Mama Flora's Family.
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Blair Underwood was voted one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" in 2000, and one of TV Guide magazine's "Most Influential Faces of the 90s".
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Also in 2007, Blair Underwood co-authored the novel Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel with husband-and-wife team Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due.
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In 2013, Blair Underwood played the role of Robert Ironside in the remake of the successful 1960s television series, Ironside, made famous by the late Raymond Burr.
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In 2016, Blair Underwood was cast in the ABC thriller series Quantico for the series regular role of CIA Deputy Director, Owen Hall.
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In 2019, Blair Underwood played attorney Bobby Burns in the Netflix miniseries When They See Us.
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In January 2020, Blair Underwood appeared on stage as Captain Richard Davenport in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Soldier's Play.
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Blair Underwood won the 1993 Humanitarian Award for his work with the Los Angeles chapter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
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Blair Underwood appeared in a 2004 public service announcement for The Fulfillment Fund.
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Blair Underwood is a Trustee for the Robey Theatre Company in Los Angeles, a non-profit theatre group founded by Danny Glover, focusing on plays about the Black experience.
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Blair Underwood supported President Barack Obama's candidacy and spoke at campaign rallies for Obama.