LESLIE UGGAMS
ACTING
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 received renewed notice with appearances alongside Ryan Reynolds as Blind Al in Deadpool (2016) & Deadpool 2 (2018) and in a recurring role on Empire..
- Dotty and Soul 2023
- Sugar Hill 1994
- Nanny 2022
- Black Girl 1972
- Skyjacked 1972
- American Fiction 2023
- Deadpool 2016
- Two Weeks in Another Town 1962
- Deadpool & Wolverine 2024
- Deadpool 2 2018
- Once Upon a Deadpool 2018
- The Ravine 2022
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. 1966
- The Cosby Show 1984
- Backstairs at the White House 1979
- Roots 1977
- The Bite 2021
- Extrapolations 2023
- Family Guy 1999
- New Amsterdam 2018
- Reading Rainbow 1983
- A Different World 1987
- Stars in the House 2020
- Fallout 2024
- Roots 1977
- The Love Boat 1977
- The Love Boat 1977
- My Dad the Bounty Hunter 2023
- The Good Wife 2009