Jay Underwood
Known for Acting · 58 credits
- Born
- 1968-10-01 (age 57)
- Place of birth
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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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Known For
TV Shows (15)
The X-Files
1993
as Jeb Dukes
ER
1994
as Mr. Burke
The West Wing
1999
as Christopher Wick
Star Trek: Voyager
1995
as Mortimer Harren
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Will Rafferty / Spencer
21 Jump Street
1987
as Rob Daniels
Millennium
1996
as Michael Slattery
V.I.P.
1998
as Adam Elliot / Adam Elliott
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
as Ernest Hemingway
Miracles
2003
as Mayor Frank Letherton
Superboy
1988
as Mike Walker (Kryptonite Kid)
A Year in the Life
1987
as Gus
First Monday
2002
J.J. Starbuck
1987
Blind Faith
1990
as Chris Marshall
Movies (43)
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
2025
as Power Plant Worker #1
Uncle Buck
1989
as Bug
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
1990
as Club Guy Bob (uncredited)
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
2004
as Policeman Tom
The Fantastic Four
1994
as Johnny Storm
Afterglow
1997
as Donald Duncan
The Boy Who Could Fly
1986
as Eric
44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out
2003
as Mr. Entertainment
Promised Land
1988
as Circle K Clerk
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
1999
as Ernest Hemingway
The Lord Protector
1996
as Priamus
Son of Darkness: To Die For II
1991
as Danny
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
1994
as Jack Montgomery
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
1999
as Ernest Hemingway
Sleepstalker
1995
as Griffin Davis
The Nurse
1997
as John Beecher
Possums
1998
as John Clark
Not Quite Human II
1989
as Chip Carson
And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story
1999
as Sonny Bono
Still Not Quite Human
1992
as Chip Carson
Valerie Flake
1999
as Tim Darnell
Desert Bloom
1986
as Robin
No Greater Love
2010
as Dave
The Invisible Kid
1988
as Grover Dunn
Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story
1992
as Kyle Lawrence
Where There's a Will
2006
as Jimmy Ray
Not Quite Human
1987
as Chip Carson
Dancing in September
2001
as Michael Daniels
Annie's Point
2005
as Policeman
Star Command
1996
as Kenneth 'Ken' Oort
Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel
2018
as Cross
Fatal Affair
1999
as Ezra Tyler
Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
2015
as Himself
Road to Redemption
2001
as Alan Fischer
Stalked
1994
as Daryl Gleeson
The Raffle
1994
as Wilson Lowe
The Gumshoe Kid
1990
as Jeff Sherman
A Reason to Believe
1995
as Jim Curran
The Day My Kid Went Punk
1987
as Terry
The Girls' Room
2000
as Shepp
Dead Dogs
1999
as Derek
Dare to Say No!
1988
The Legend of the Candy Cane
2001
as Chester (voice)
About Jay Underwood
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article… With 58 credits spanning from 1984 to 2025, Jay Underwood has appeared in 43 films and 15 TV shows.
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- The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025) — as Power Plant Worker #1
- Uncle Buck (1989) — as Bug
- The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) — as Club Guy Bob (uncredited)
- Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004) — as Policeman Tom
- The Fantastic Four (1994) — as Johnny Storm
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