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Blair Underwood

Biography

Blair Underwood

Blair Underwood is a Tony and two-time Golden Globe nominee, and an Emmy, Grammy, Peabody and eight-time NAACP Image Award–winning actor, director and producer. Underwood has starred in numerous film, television and stage productions, including "Sex and the City," Set It Off, Madea’s Family Reunion, Longlegs, "L.A. Law" and "Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker." He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Blair Underwood

Books by Blair Underwood

A Soldier's Wife: My Mother, the Marvelous Mrs. Marilyn A. Underwood
by Blair Underwood - Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction

Born in Buffalo, New York, Marilyn Ann Scales Underwood dreamed of becoming a fashion designer. Moving to New York City to study at the Traphagen School of Fashion, she became an assistant designer and eventually returned to her hometown where she began her career as the first Black female executive at Barmon Brothers Company. Independent and content with being single, she wasn’t interested in marriage until she met Lieutenant Frank Underwood. Blair Underwood honors his mother with this remarkable work, bringing into sharp focus her life as a soldier's wife, mother and successful entrepreneur, drawn from his memories, her letters, and interviews with family and friends.