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American actor and pastor
Jay Underwood
Born (1968-10-01) October 1, 1968 (age 56)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Occupation(s)Actor, pastor
Years active1986–present

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.

Career

In 2001, Underwood was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award for his role in The Boy Who Could Fly. Subsequently, Underwood appeared in the feature film No Greater Love, released in 2010.

Underwood worked for Calvary Bible Church in Burbank, California as junior high pastor from August 2005 to June 2007 while attending The Master's Seminary, and was the full-time pastor of First Baptist Church of Weaverville, California from 2007 to 2020. As of January 1, 2021, Jay returned to Calvary Bible Church in Burbank and is currently Interim Pastor-Teacher.

Partial filmography

References

  1. "22nd Annual Young Artist Awards". YoungArtistAwards.org. Archived from the original on 2014-09-28. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
  2. Search Alumni by Name - The Master's Seminary Archived 2009-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Calvary Bible Church: Our Team".

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