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

New Amsterdam

My Dad the Bounty Hunter

Fallout

Reading Rainbow

The Gilded Age

Deadpool & Wolverine

Deadpool

The Muppet Show

The Good Wife

Deadpool 2

American Fiction

Family Guy

The Carol Burnett Show

Once Upon a Deadpool

Empire

Nurse Jackie

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Roots

Magnum, P.I.

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

A Different World

The Dean Martin Show

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

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

The Bite

The Cosby Show

Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring

Night of 100 Stars II

The Danny Kaye Show

Hotel

The Apollo

CBS News Sunday Morning

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

Black Girl

What's My Line?

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

A Special Sesame Street Christmas

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Startime

Extrapolations

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Early Show

That's Life