Leslie Uggams

Known for ActingBorn 1943-05-25 (age 83)Harlem, New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Sizzle

The Bobby Darin Show

Hullabaloo

Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl

The Leslie Uggams Show

My Dad the Bounty Hunter

New Amsterdam

Fallout

Reading Rainbow

Night of 100 Stars II

Deadpool & Wolverine

The Gilded Age

Deadpool

The Muppet Show

The Good Wife

Deadpool 2

American Fiction

Family Guy

The Carol Burnett Show

Empire

Once Upon a Deadpool

Nurse Jackie

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Roots

Magnum, P.I.

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

The Dean Martin Show

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

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

The Bite

A Different World

CBS News Sunday Morning

The Cosby Show

Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring

The Apollo

The Danny Kaye Show

Hotel

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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

What's My Line?

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

Black Girl

A Special Sesame Street Christmas

Startime

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Early Show

Extrapolations

That's Life