Blair Underwood
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"Blair Erwin Underwood" is an American television, film, and stage actor and director. He played headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins on the NBC legal drama L.A. Law for seven years. He has received two Golden Globe Award nominations, three NAACP Image Awards and one Grammy Award. In recent years, he has appeared on The New Adventures of Old Christine, Dirty Sexy Money and In Treatment (U.S. TV series)/In Treatment and was in NBC's The Event.

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I am proud to be a part of this landmark project that has afforded me the opportunity to collaborate with so many of my peers to bring this unique and timely version of the Bible to the global marketplace.

It's not a safe bet and it's not the cookie-cutter formula.

Tonight, Daddy won't read you a story -- you can watch him in a story.

When I was doing 'L.A. Law' it was really important to me to play very uplifting, positive characters. When that was over, I made a conscious effort to look for roles that were darker and showed a different edge. I went directly from the last day of 'L.A. Law' into rehearsals for a movie called 'Just Cause' where I played a serial-killing pedophile.

Sometimes what he says may sound to some people like cliches. But he says things, and in ways, that especially in the black community, we understand exactly what he's saying, because we've heard those things since childhood.

You've just got to know that going in - children, animals and Tyler Perry, you're gonna get upstaged. Truthfully, he's a very giving collaborator, whatever hat he wears.