So here's the deal. I don't know how I have become so blessed as to get to chat with the people I do...but the company that I work with, Premier Radio (iHeart) is incredible. I have struck up a friendship with the different producers there...and because of that...THIS interview took place. Mr. Underwood...of whom I have loved for a VERY long time (sorry Mark), was doing a radio 'tour' on a Friday. A Friday that I was covering for Todd at work so I was not going to be able to do it. When I told my guys at Premier that I couldn't do it but please tell him I love him...they wrote back to let me know that they had told him I was one of their favorites and I really wanted to talk to him...so he agreed to start the tour EARLY...so that I could talk to him. I love this little radio world I'm in. I love the people I have met along the way. And I LOVE ME SOME BLAIR UNDERWOOD!
ABOUT BLAIR UNDERWOOD
A true multi-hyphenate, Blair Underwood is enjoying success in film, television and theatre, as an actor, director and producer. Underwood returned to Broadway starring opposite David Alan Grier in the Pulitzer Prize winning drama "A Solider's Play" for director Kenny Leon and the Roundabout Theatre Company. He also co-stars in Justin Simien's "Bad Hair" which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Underwood also starred opposite Octavia Spencer & Tiffany Haddish in Netflix's limited series "Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker"
. Underwood appeared in the Netflix Emmy-Award winning limited series "When They See Us." He also had a recurring role on the Netflix comedy series, "Dear White People" and can be seen in Clark Johnson's "Juanita," opposite Alfre Woodard, also for Netflix. He spent two years as a series regular on the ABC drama series "Quantico," while also recurring on another hit ABC drama "MARVEL AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. " He also had a co-starring role in "The After Party," from writer/director Ian Edelman, which Netflix released late in 2018.
Past television credits include series regular roles on "Dirty Sexy Money," "The New Adventures of Old Christine," "In Treatment," "The Event" and "L.A. Law". Film credits include "Deep Impact," "Set It Off," "Rules of Engagement," "Just Cause," "Madea's Family Reunion" and Steven Soderbergh's "Full Frontal." Underwood co-starred opposite Cicely Tyson in the Lifetime telefilm & theatre production of "A Trip to Bountiful," based on the Tony Award-winning play.
In 2012 he made his acclaimed Broadway debut in the iconic role of Stanley in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," for which he earned a 2012 Drama League Distinguished Performance Award nomination. He also starred in "Paradise Blue" at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and "Othello" at the Old Globe Theatre.
In 2010 he made his feature film directing debut with "The Bridge to Nowhere," which starred Ving Rhames, Danny Masterson, Bijou Phillips and Alex Breckenridge.
Underwood is an Emmy Award-winner (as producer of the philanthropy-centered NBC Saturday morning series "Give"), a two-time Golden Globe Award nominee, and has been nominated for 17 NAACP Image Awards (seven wins). He won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word as co-narrator of Al Gore's audiobook, An Inconvenient Truth. A newly minted member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he is also active in several philanthropic endeavors.
NEWSNATION TO PRESENT ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY: CLINTON: PORTRAIT OF A PRESIDENCY ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD AT 8 PM ET
Nexstar Media's Broadcast Network The CW to Simulcast
NewsNation will present an original documentary entitled, "Clinton: Portrait of a Presidency" on Sunday, November 3rd at 8 p.m. ET. Narrated by Emmy and Grammy-award winning actor Blair Underwood, the two-hour film will examine the unprecedented time of peace and prosperity in America under the leadership of President William Jefferson Clinton. Nexstar Media's broadcast network, The CW, will carry a simulcast of the documentary nationwide.
Leading up to Election Day 2024, the new documentary will feature the key events that took place during Clinton's presidency that tell a story of economic renewal, compromise, peace through arbitration, and human frailty. During the Clinton era, the country achieved the highest budget surplus in history and American families thrived in a booming economy. President Clinton left office with the highest approval rating in the nation's history, despite a scandal that rocked his presidency.
Contributions will be provided by political commentator and chief strategist for Clinton's '92 presidential campaign, James Carville; re-election co-chair and former head of the DNC, Gov. Terry McAuliffe; author of Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story and the journalist who discovered the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, Michael Isikoff; fellow Rhodes scholar and former Congressman Tom McMillen (D-MD); and Director of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, Dr. Jay Barth.
