Actor
Leslie Uggams
Biography

Leslie Marian Uggams (born May 25, 1943) is an American actress and singer. Beginning her career as a child in the early 1950s, Uggams is recognized for portraying Kizzy Reynolds in the television miniseries Roots (1977), earning Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for her performance. She had earlier been highly acclaimed for the Broadway musical Hallelujah, Baby!, winning a Theatre World Award in 1967 and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1968. Later in her career, Uggams r ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Deadpool & Wolverine | Blind Al
2023 -- American Fiction | Agnes Ellison
2023 -- Dotty and Soul | Dotty
2022 -- Nanny | Kathleen
2022 -- The Ravine | Joanna
2020 -- Blithe Spirit | Madame Arcati
2019 -- The Apollo | Self
2018 -- Once Upon a Deadpool | Blind Al
2018 -- Deadpool 2 | Blind Al
2016 -- Deadpool | Blind Al
2014 -- Just the Three of Us |
2007 -- Words and Music by Jerry Herman | Herself
2003 -- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self
1995 -- Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly! |
1994 -- Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl | Self
1994 -- Sugar Hill | Doris Holly
1989 -- The Ice Capades with Jason Bateman and Alyssa Milano |
1988 -- Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC | Self
1985 -- Night of 100 Stars II | Self
1981 -- Sizzle | Vonda
1978 -- A Special Sesame Street Christmas | Self
1978 -- Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring |
1975 -- Poor Pretty Eddie | Elizabeth 'Liz' Wetherly
1972 -- Black Girl | Netta
1972 -- Skyjacked | Lovejoy Wells
1972 -- S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin | Self
1970 -- King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage)
1962 -- Two Weeks in Another Town | Chanteuse
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