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Blair Underwood

  • Birthplace: Tacoma, Washington, USA
  • Birthday: August 25, 1964

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 multi-faceted lawyers, doctors and executives in films like “Set it Off” (1996) and “Deep Impact” (1998…more

Career Milestones

  • 2008

    Cast as the recurring character Alex in the HBO series "In Treatment"; earned a Golden Globe nomination in 2009 for Supporting Actor

  • 2008

    Played the recurring role of billionaire Simon Elder on ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money"

  • 2007

    Co-authored the fiction novel Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel with husband-and-wife team Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due

  • 2006

    Co-starred in Tyler Perry's "Madea's Family Reunion"

  • 2005

    Cast as a hip-hop mogul in "G" (filmed in 2001); loosely based on "The Great Gatsby"

Awards

  • 2009

    Grammy Award: Best Spoken Word Album

  • 2001

    NAACP Image Award: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

  • 2001

    NAACP Image Award: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Upcoming Appearances

In Sex and the City

Tuesday at 01:00 TBS

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