Blair Underwood
- Birthplace: Tacoma, Washington
- Birthday: August 25, 1964
A handsome young leading man of American TV and, to a lesser extent, film, Blair Underwood got his start playing clean-cut and often decidedly middle class African Americans, notably his six seasons as Jonathan Rollins, the brash associate of "L.A. Law" (NBC, 1987-93), then branched out to playing sleazoids of the first degree, then saw the pendulum swing back as he returned to more upstanding TV characters.
An Army brat, Underwood grew up near bases around the globe. He studied acting at Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before h…more
