Blair Underwood

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Biography

With his successful run playing a brash attorney on the popular Stephen Bochco legal drama "L. A. Law" (NBC, 1986-1994), actor Blair Underwood carved out a niche for himself portraying highly educated authority figures on scores of television series and in feature films. Underwood did all this by managing to avoid negative typecasting of African-American men often seen in Hollywood; earning NAACP Image awards for offering audiences …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Music, Below The Line

Born

August 25, 1964

LATEST CREDITS

Krush Groove

Russell Walker

Final Breakdown

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Asunder

Chance Williams

Dying in Vein: Rock n' Roll on Heroin

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Legacy

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Heat Wave

Bobby Richardson

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday Parade

Grand Marshal

VH1 Good News People

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Shadow Fight

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Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day

David Ames

Fronterz

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Madea's Family Reunion

Carlos

Murder in Mississippi

James Chaney

LAX

Roger DeSouza

The Secret Of...

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Mama Flora's Family

Willie

The 30th NAACP Image Awards

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101st Tournament of Roses Parade (NBC/90)

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Chip Hightower

Father & Son: Dangerous Relations

Jared Williams

That's What Friends Are For: AIDS Concert '88

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How Did It Feel?

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Soul of the Game

Jackie Robinson

Mistrial

Lieutenant C Hodges

Brown Sugar (EGM Films/archaeology romance)

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