Blair Underwood Net Worth, Wealth, and Annual Salary
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.
Blair Underwood Wealth Stats: Salary, Net Worth, and More
Blair Underwood's net worth, salary and other interesting facts:
| Net Worth | $8 Million |
|---|---|
| Salary | $120 Thousand Per Episode |
| Date of Birth | August 25, 1964 (age 59 years) | Gender | Male |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.8 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Film director, Film Producer, Television producer |
| Nationality | United States of America |
Inspirational Quotes by Blair Underwood
Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.
Blair Underwood
I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me.
Blair Underwood
My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.
Blair Underwood
The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.
Blair Underwood
To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.
Blair Underwood
