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Blair Underwood Net Worth

Blair Underwood Net Worth: Blair Underwood is an American actor who has a net worth of $8 million. Blair Underwood was born August 25, 1964 in Tacoma, Washington. He is perhaps best known as the headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins on the NBC legal drama L.A. Law (for seven years). The smart and exceptionally handsome African-American actor was trained in musical theater at Carnegie-Mellon after which he moved to New York and got a break on his second day there by landing a part on The Cosby Show (1984). He made his film debut at age 21 in Krush Groove (1985) and appeared that same year on One Life to Live (1968) before the role of attorney Jonathan Rollins in the hit dramatic series, L.A. Law (1986). He went on to appear in a number of prestigious TV dramas such as Murder in Mississippi (1990), Heat Wave (1990) and Mama Flora’s Family (1998). He was also cast as baseball legend Jackie Robinson in HBO’s Soul of the Game (1996). Blair’s theater credits include Measure for Measure at the 1993 New York Shakespeare Festival, as well as El Negro en Peru, The Game of Love and Chance and Love Letters. On film, he has yet to break out into top stardom but has shown great potential playing men of integrity in a number of supporting roles, including Gattaca (1997), Deep Impact (1998),The Wishing Tree (1999) and Full Frontal (2002). His flashy, atypical performance as a vicious murderer in Just Cause (1995) and a psychotic stalker in Asunder (1999) have also earned him positive attention. Blair Underwood stirred up a bit of controversy as director, executive producer, co-writer and star of the 30-minute dramatic film, The Second Coming (1992), in which he portrayed Jesus Christ coming back to earth as a man of color. In addition, he produced and starred in the short film, Sister, I’m Sorry (1994). Blair also has five music videos to his directing credit. 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.

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Blair Underwood Info
Net Worth$8 Million
Salary$120 Thousand Per Episode
Date of BirthAugust 25, 1964 (age 58 years)
GenderMale
Height5 ft 10 in (1.8 m)
ProfessionActor, Film director, Film Producer, Television producer
NationalityUnited States of America

Favorite Quotes from Blair Underwood

Why does Blair Underwood have a net worth of $8 Million? Maybe these quotes can shine some light on the situation:

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.

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I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

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So it's a source of fun and a source of pride to have been a part of this little movie that could.

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It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.

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That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.

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