Leslie Uggams
Acting
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 received renewed notice with appearances alongside Ryan Reynolds as Blind Al in Deadpool (2016) & Deadpool 2 (2018) and in a recurring role on Empire.
As actor 77
Family Guy
1999
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Good Wife
2009
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Love Boat
1977
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
Tony Awards
1956
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979
Magnum, P.I.
1980
Fallout
2024
The Cosby Show
1984
New Amsterdam
2018
The Gilded Age
2022
Nurse Jackie
2009
Empire
2015
Deadpool 2
2018
Extrapolations
2023
Deadpool
2016
What's My Line?
1950
A Different World
1987
The Carol Burnett Show
1967
Hotel
1982
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Muppet Show
1976
The Dean Martin Show
1965
Stars in the House
2020
Reading Rainbow
1983
My Dad the Bounty Hunter
2023
The Flip Wilson Show
1970
The Mod Squad
1968
The Hollywood Palace
1964
Roots
1977
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
Startime
1959
American Fiction
2023
Once Upon a Deadpool
2018
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969
The Early Show
1999
That's Life
1968
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Hullabaloo
1965
Sugar Hill
1994
Nanny
2022
The Ravine
2022
Backstairs at the White House
1979
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2017
The Bobby Darin Show
1973
The Bite
2021
Easter Is
1974
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Skyjacked
1972
Two Weeks in Another Town
1962
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
Poor Pretty Eddie
1975
Remembering Roots
2002
The Leslie Uggams Show
1969
Blithe Spirit
2020
The Apollo
2019
Dotty and Soul
2023
Show of Titles
2021
Black Girl
1972
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
1978
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring
1978
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
1995
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
1994
Christmas at Radio City Music Hall
1986
Sizzle
1981
Just the Three of Us
2014
Swing Out, Sweet Land
1970
The Ice Capades with Jason Bateman and Alyssa Milano
1989
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin
1972
Toe to Toe
2009