Biography
Blair Underwood (born August 25, 1964) is an American television and film actor. He is perhaps best known as headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins from the NBC legal drama L.A. Law, a role he portrayed for seven years. He has gained critical acclaim throughout his career, receiving numerous Golden Globe Award nominations, three NAACP Image Awards and 1 Grammy Award. His feature film debut was the 1985 movie Krush Groove. His 1985 appearance on The Cosby Show landed him a short stint on the ABC s...
Known For
Complete Filmography

One Spoon of Chocolate
2025
Fresh out of jail, a military veteran relocates to a small Ohio town where many of the residents have a horrifying social agenda, leading the hardened...

Guardians of the Galapagos
2025
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Go behind the scenes with the crew of Sea Lions of the Galapagos to showcase not just the production of a film, but the world that inspired it.

Clinton: Portrait of a Presidency
2024
as Narrator
Examining the unprecedented time of prosperity in America under the leadership of President Clinton.

Clinton: Portrait of a Presidency
2024
Executive Producer
Examining the unprecedented time of prosperity in America under the leadership of President Clinton.

Longlegs
2024
as Agent Carter
FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing ev...

Tigers on the Rise
2024
as Narrator (voice)
Celebrate the remarkable comeback of tigers and the local heroes fighting to protect them.

Origin
2023
as Amari Selvan
While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the b...

Black Patriots: Buffalo Soldiers
2022
as Narrator (voice)
As the United States recovered from the bloody aftermath of the Civil War, Congress passed the Reorganization Act in 1866, that created the first-ever...

Bear Witness
2022
as Narrator (voice)
The film Journeys alongside the filmmakers behind Disneynature’s “Polar Bear” as they face profound challenges 300 miles from the North Pole. The team...

Bad Hair
2021
as Amos Bludso
In 1989, an ambitious young woman gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career ma...

A Soldier's Play
2021
as Captain Richard Davenport
In a segregated army camp in Louisiana in 1944, a black sergeant is shot dead after crying out "they still hate you." As the play examines the murder,...

Really Love
2020
as Jerome Richmond
A rising black painter tries to break into a competitive art world while balancing an unexpected romance with an ambitious law student.

Penguins: Life on the Edge
2020
as Narrator (voice)
A witty and tenacious team of filmmakers brave the Antarctic to film Disneynature's "Penguins."

The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
2020
as Self
Go back to the beginning of television's longest-running primetime drama with behind-the-scenes footage, memorable scenes and exclusive interviews wit...

Juanita
2019
as Blair Underwood
Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana - where she reinvents herself a...

The After Party
2018
as Sgt. Martin Ellison
When an aspiring rapper goes viral for the wrong reasons, he thinks his career is sunk. But a wild party gives him one more chance to make it right.

Mr. SOUL!
2018
as Ellis Haizlip (voice)
On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising stars...

Mr. SOUL!
2018
Executive Producer
On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising stars...

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
2016
as Narrator (voice)
In 1936, 18 African American athletes dubbed the "black auxiliary" by Hitler defied Nazi Aryan Supremacy and Jim Crow Racism to win hearts and medals ...

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
2016
Executive Producer
In 1936, 18 African American athletes dubbed the "black auxiliary" by Hitler defied Nazi Aryan Supremacy and Jim Crow Racism to win hearts and medals ...

The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar
2016
as Makuu (voice)
Set in the African savannah, the film follows Kion as he assembles the members of the 'Lion Guard'. Throughout the film, the diverse team of young ani...

The Trip to Bountiful
2014
as Ludie Watts
Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forb...

Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day
2012
as David Ames
The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secr...

Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day
2012
Producer
The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secr...

The Art of Getting By
2011
as Principal
George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally,...
First Generation
2011
as Narrator
An award-winning feature-length documentary narrated by Golden Globe nominee Blair Underwood, FIRST GENERATION tells the story of four high school stu...

The Bridge to Nowhere
2009
Director, Writer
A group of 20-something blue-collar workers in Pittsburgh cook up a scheme to make extra money that involves prostitution. Their business takes off, t...

Weather Girl
2009
as Fitz
Succumbing to the stresses of her personal and professional lives, Sylvia, a Seattle morning show weather forecaster, has a meltdown live on-air. Now,...
The Hit
2007
as Henry Alabaster
The Hit is the sequel to cult favorite Straight Out of Compton, in which Blair Underwood stars as Hen, an up-and-coming record executive whose goal is...
The Hit
2007
Producer
The Hit is the sequel to cult favorite Straight Out of Compton, in which Blair Underwood stars as Hen, an up-and-coming record executive whose goal is...

Madea's Family Reunion
2006
as Carlos
Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles - Vanessa moves into Madea's house with her ...

Something New
2006
as Mark Harper
Kenya McQueen, a corporate lawyer, finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spi...

Covert One: The Hades Factor
2006
as Palmer Addison
Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino, Academy and Golden Globe Award winner Anjelica Huston and Stephen Dorff star in this nail-biting tale of action and...

The Golden Blaze
2005
as Gregory Fletcher (voice)
Two African American boys schoolyard rivalry spirals out of control when their fathers develop superpowers.

Do Geese See God
2004
as Man
A sweating man breathes rapidly from exertion as he open a packet and pulls out a DVD with the words "Salvation comes from within" on it. Impatiently ...

The Gristle
2004
as Self (uncredited)
Multiculturalism reaches the depths of the criminal underworld as eight diverse con men must learn to work together to pull off a heist that's anythin...

Malibu's Most Wanted
2003
as Tom Gibbsons
A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to ...

Full Frontal
2002
as Calvin / Nicholas
A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.

G
2002
as Chip Hightower
A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summ...

Truth Be Told
2002
as Det. Harris
Rayne Johnson is a shrewd investment company assistant who turns a mob slaying into a golden opportunity for a new improved lifestyle, managing to out...

Rules of Engagement
2000
as Capt. Lee
A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen.

The Wishing Tree
1999
as Thomas
When her storyteller mother (Mary Alice) dies, attorney Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) returns to her Georgia hometown and is soon captivated by a loca...

Asunder
1998
as Chance Williams
When a freak accident destroys everything in a man's life, he invades the troubled marriage of his best friends.

Deep Impact
1998
as Mark Simon
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to sav...

Gattaca
1997
as Geneticist
Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member ...

Set It Off
1996
as Keith
Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four wome...

Mistrial
1996
as Lieutenant C. Hodges
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, t...

Soul of the Game
1996
as Jackie Robinson
In 1945, the world of baseball is divided between the Majors and the Negro Leagues - but the time has come for change. One team will be the first to s...

Just Cause
1995
as Bobby Earl Ferguson
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific...

Posse
1993
as Carver
A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for...

Father & Son: Dangerous Relations
1993
as Jared Williams
An estranged father and son are paroled from the same maximum-security prison with one unusual condition, they must become roommates. Their severed bo...

Voices That Care
1991
as Self - Choir Member
Behind the scenes making of the charity single "Voices That Care".

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1991
as Reader
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers is a 1991 American short documentary film directed by Bill Couturié. It shows footage from World War I, World...

The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
1991
as Self
American Experience

Heat Wave
1990
as Bob Richardson
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Murder in Mississippi
1990
as James Chaney
In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registratio...

The Cover Girl and the Cop
1989
as Horace Bouchet
Julia Duffy is the cover girl and Dinah Manoff the cop in this made-for-TV contrivance.

Mickey's 60th Birthday
1988
as Jonathan Rollins
This film combines live action/original animation and library animation. Mickey steals a magic hat from a Sorcerer and is put under a spell by the ang...

Krush Groove
1985
as Russell Walker
Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Ru...
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Written by Joe McClean, the story centers on a man named Andrew (Underwood) who falls into paranoia after his wife (Mason) goes missing, and finds the...
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Director
Written by Joe McClean, the story centers on a man named Andrew (Underwood) who falls into paranoia after his wife (Mason) goes missing, and finds the...