Leslie Uggams

Actor May 25 (age 82) Harlem, New York City, New York, USA 1948–2024 (76 year career)

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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

Film

Deadpool

Blind Al

Film

Deadpool 2

Blind Al

Film

Deadpool & Wolverine

Blind Al

Film

American Fiction

Agnes Ellison

Film

Once Upon a Deadpool

Blind Al

Film

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Sadie

Film

Nanny

Kathleen

Film

Sugar Hill

Doris Holly

Filmography

Acting (76)

Movies (32)

Deadpool & Wolverine

as Blind Al

American Fiction

as Agnes Ellison

Dotty and Soul

as Dotty

Nanny

as Kathleen

The Ravine

as Joanna

Show of Titles

as "Hallelujah, Baby!" Performer

Blithe Spirit

2020

as Madame Arcati

The Apollo

as Self

Deadpool 2

as Blind Al

Once Upon a Deadpool

as Blind Al

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

as Sadie

Deadpool

as Blind Al

Just the Three of Us

Toe to Toe

as Grandma

Words and Music by Jerry Herman

2007

as Self

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

2003

as Self

7.0

Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!

1995

Sugar Hill

1994

as Doris Holly

5.6

Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl

1994

as Self

9.0

The Ice Capades with Jason Bateman and Alyssa Milano

1989

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

1988

as Self

6.0

Night of 100 Stars II

1985

as Self

8.0

Sizzle

1981

as Vonda

Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring

1978

7.0

A Special Sesame Street Christmas

1978

as Self

6.0

Poor Pretty Eddie

1975

as Elizabeth 'Liz' Wetherly

4.9

Easter Is

1974

as (voice)

S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin

as Self

Skyjacked

as Lovejoy Wells

Black Girl

as Netta

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

1970

as Self (archive footage)

7.1

Two Weeks in Another Town

1962

as Chanteuse

5.9

Television (44)

Fallout

2024

as Betty Pearson

8.1

My Dad the Bounty Hunter

as Grandma (voice)

Extrapolations

as Isabel Zucker

The Gilded Age

as Ernestine Brown

The Bite

as Dr. Hester Boutella

6.8

Stars in the House

2020

as Madame Arcati

New Amsterdam

as Mamma Reynolds

Empire

as Leah Walker

The Good Wife

as Suzanne Packer

Family Guy

as Leslie Uggams (voice)

The Early Show

as Self

A Different World

as Dr. Eileen Redding

The Cosby Show

as Kris Temple

Reading Rainbow

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Hotel

Magnum, P.I.

as Alexis Carter

CBS News Sunday Morning

1979

as Self

6.9

Backstairs at the White House

1979

as Lillian Rogers Parks

The Love Boat

as Callie Reason

Roots

as Kizzy Reynolds

The Muppet Show

as Self - Special Guest Star

8.0

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self

The Bobby Darin Show

The Flip Wilson Show

as Self

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

1969

as Self

5.8

The Leslie Uggams Show

The Mod Squad

That's Life

The Carol Burnett Show

1967

as Self

7.7

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

as Natasha Brimstone

The Dean Martin Show

Hullabaloo

as Self

The Hollywood Palace

as Self - Singer

The Danny Kaye Show

as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.5

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

Startime

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

as Self

Tony Awards

as Self - Host

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter / Nominee / Performer

5.9

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Host

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Presenter / Nominee / Performer

What's My Line?

1950

as Self - Mystery Guest

6.9

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948

as Self

6.8