Leslie Uggams
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.
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Acting History
2024
Deadpool & Wolverine as Blind Al
2024Fallout as Betty Pearson
2023American Fiction as Agnes Ellison
2023Dotty and Soul as Dotty
2023Extrapolations as Isabel Zucker
2023My Dad the Bounty Hunter as Grandma (voice)
2022Nanny as Kathleen
2022The Ravine as Joanna
2022The Gilded Age as Ernestine Brown
2021Show of Titles as "Hallelujah, Baby!" Performer
2021The Bite as Dr. Hester Boutella
2020Blithe Spirit as Madame Arcati
2020Stars in the House as Madame Arcati
2019The Apollo as Self
2018Once Upon a Deadpool as Blind Al
2018New Amsterdam as Mamma Reynolds
2018Deadpool 2 as Blind Al
2016Deadpool as Blind Al
2014Just the Three of Us
2009The Good Wife as Suzanne Packer
2009Toe to Toe as Grandma
2007Words and Music by Jerry Herman as Self
2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
1999The Early Show as Self
1999Family Guy as Leslie Uggams (voice)
1995Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
1994Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl as Self
1994Sugar Hill as Doris Holly
1989The Ice Capades with Jason Bateman and Alyssa Milano
1988Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC as Self
1987A Different World as Dr. Eileen Redding
1985Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1984The Cosby Show as Kris Temple
1983Reading Rainbow as Self - Narrator (voice)
1982Hotel
1981Sizzle as Vonda
1980Magnum, P.I. as Alexis Carter
1979Backstairs at the White House as Lillian Rogers Parks
1979CBS News Sunday Morning as Self
1978A Special Sesame Street Christmas as Self
1978Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring
1977The Love Boat as Marion Blake
1977The Love Boat as Callie Reason
1977Roots as Kizzy Reynolds
1977Roots as Kizzy Reynolds Moore
1976The Muppet Show as Self - Special Guest Star
1975Poor Pretty Eddie as Elizabeth 'Liz' Wetherly
1974Easter Is as (voice)
1973The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
1973The Bobby Darin Show
1972Black Girl as Netta
1972Skyjacked as Lovejoy Wells
1972S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin as Self
1970The Flip Wilson Show as Self
1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis as Self (archive footage)
1969The Leslie Uggams Show
1969The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour as Self
1968The Mod Squad
1968That's Life
1967The Carol Burnett Show as Self
1966The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Natasha Brimstone
1965The Dean Martin Show
1965Hullabaloo as Self
1965Hullabaloo as Self - Host
1964The Hollywood Palace as Self - Singer
1963The Danny Kaye Show as Self
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962Two Weeks in Another Town as Chanteuse
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1959Startime
1957Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1956Tony Awards as Self - Presenter / Nominee / Performer
1956Tony Awards as Self - Host
1956Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1956Tony Awards as Self - Performer
1950What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
1948The Ed Sullivan Show as Self