Acting credits
57
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Jay Underwood
Acting
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Movies: 42Series: 15
TMDB ID: 27493
IMDb ID: nm0001809
Known for: Acting
Born: October 1, 1968
Age: 57
Place of birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1984 - 2025
Years active: 42
Average TMDB rating: 6.3
Wikidata: Q3163273
Biography
Jay Underwood (born October 1, 1968) is an American actor and pastor. Beginning a prolific career as a teen actor in the mid-1980s, he is perhaps best known for his starring feature film roles, portraying Eric Gibb in The Boy Who Could Fly, Chip Carson in Not Quite Human, Grover Dunn in The Invisible Kid, Sonny Bono in The Sonny and Cher Story, Bug in Uncle Buck, and Ernest Hemingway in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He also portrayed the Human Torch in the 1994 unreleased film Fantastic Four.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Jay Underwood.
as Power Plant Worker #1
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
2025 • Movie
as Cross
Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel
2018 • Movie
as Himself
Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
2015 • Movie
as Dave
No Greater Love
2010 • Movie
as Jimmy Ray
Where There's a Will
2006 • Movie
as Policeman
Annie's Point
2005 • Movie
as Policeman Tom
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
2004 • Movie
as Mr. Entertainment
44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out
2003 • Movie
as Alan Fischer
Road to Redemption
2001 • Movie
as Chester (voice)
The Legend of the Candy Cane
2001 • Movie
as Michael Daniels
Dancing in September
2001 • Movie
as Ernest Hemingway
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
1999 • Movie
as Ernest Hemingway
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
1999 • Movie
as Ezra Tyler
Fatal Affair
1999 • Movie
as Sonny Bono
And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story
1999 • Movie
as Derek
Dead Dogs
1999 • Movie
as Tim Darnell
Valerie Flake
1999 • Movie
as John Clark
Possums
1998 • Movie
as Donald Duncan
Afterglow
1997 • Movie
as John Beecher
The Nurse
1997 • Movie
as Kenneth 'Ken' Oort
Star Command
1996 • Movie
as Priamus
The Lord Protector
1996 • Movie
as Jim Curran
A Reason to Believe
1995 • Movie
as Griffin Davis
Sleepstalker
1995 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Jay Underwood.
as Mayor Frank Letherton • 1 eps
Miracles
2003 • Series
1 eps
First Monday
2002 • Series
as Christopher Wick • 1 eps
The West Wing
1999 • Series
as Adam Elliot • 1 eps
V.I.P.
1998 • Series
as Michael Slattery • 1 eps
Millennium
1996 • Series
as Mortimer Harren • 1 eps
Star Trek: Voyager
1995 • Series
as Mr. Burke • 1 eps
ER
1994 • Series
as Jeb Dukes • 1 eps
The X-Files
1993 • Series
as Ernest Hemingway • 3 eps
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992 • Series
as Chris Marshall • 2 eps
Blind Faith
1990 • Series
as Mike Walker (Kryptonite Kid) • 1 eps
Superboy
1988 • Series
1 eps
J.J. Starbuck
1987 • Series
as Gus • 2 eps
A Year in the Life
1987 • Series
as Rob Daniels • 1 eps
21 Jump Street
1987 • Series
as Will Rafferty • 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
1984 • Series