Blair Underwood

Blair Underwood as President Martinez -- Photo by: Joseph Viles/NBC

While appearing on NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are, this American television, film and stage actor and director discovered that people on his father’s side are from Cameroon. Blair Underwood’s DNA matched a man in Babungo, Cameroon in the Ancestry DNA database. Along with his father Blair Underwood visited the village of Babungo in the north-west region of Cameroon. Additional test revealed that his African roots comes from the Bamun, Brong and Igbo ethnic groups of West Africa.