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Leslie Uggams
ActorBorn May 25, 1943 (81 years)
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.
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.
Filmography
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine · as Blind Al |
| 2024 | Fallout (TV Series) · as Betty Pearson |
| 2023 | American Fiction · as Agnes Ellison |
| 2023 | Extrapolations (TV Series) · as Isabel Zucker |
| 2023 | My Dad the Bounty Hunter (TV Series) · as Grandma (voice) |
| 2022 | Dotty & Soul · as Dotty |
| 2022 | Nanny · as Kathleen |
| 2022 | The Gilded Age (TV Series) · as Mrs. Ernestine Brown |
| 2021 | The Ravine · as Joanna |
| 2021 | The Bite (TV Series) · as Dr. Hester Boutella |
| 2020 | Blithe Spirit · as Madame Arcati |
| 2019 | Wu-Tang: An American Saga (TV Series) · as Grandma Dynamite |
| 2018 | Once Upon a Deadpool · as Blind Al |
| 2018 | New Amsterdam (2018) (TV Series) · as Mamma Reynolds |
| 2018 | Deadpool 2 · as Blind Al |
| 2017 | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks · as Sadie |
| 2016 | Deadpool · as Blind Al |
| 2015 | Empire (2015) (TV Series) · as Leah Walker |
| 2012 | NYC 22 (TV Series) · as Etta King |
| 2011 | Minnie's Bow-Toons (TV Series) · as Nana Beaver |
| 2010 | Memphis Beat (TV Series) · as Estelle |
| 2009 | The Good Wife (TV Series) · as Suzanne Packer |
| 2009 | Nurse Jackie (TV Series) · as Vivian |
| 2009 | Toe to Toe · as Grandma |
| 1999 | Family Guy (TV Series) · as Leslie Uggams (voice) |
| 1995 | Under One Roof (TV Series) · as Geneva |
| 1993 | Sugar Hill · as Doris Holly |
| 1987 | A Different World (TV Series) · as Dr. Eileen Redding |
| 1984 | The Cosby Show (TV Series) · as Kris Temple |
| 1983 | Hotel (TV Series) |
| 1981 | Sizzle · as Vonda |
| 1980 | Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) |
| 1979 | Backstairs at the White House (TV Series) · as Lillian Rogers Parks |
| 1977 | The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Callie Reason |
| 1977 | Roots (TV Series) · as Kizzy Reynolds Moore |
| 1975 | Poor Pretty Eddie · as Elizabeth 'liz' Wetherly |
| 1974 | High Rollers (TV Series) · as Assistant (1974-1980) |
| 1973 | The Bobby Darin Show (TV Series) |
| 1972 | Black Girl · as Netta |
| 1972 | Skyjacked · as Lovejoy Wells |
| 1970 | Swing Out, Sweet Land · as Saloon Singer |
| 1970 | All My Children (TV Series) · as Rose Keefer |
| 1969 | Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series) · as Laurie Williams |
| 1968 | The Mod Squad (TV Series) |
| 1968 | That's Life (1968) (TV Series) |
| 1966 | The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) · as Natasha Brimstone |
| 1965 | The Dean Martin Show (TV Series) |
| 1965 | I Spy (TV Series) · as Tonia |
| 1962 | Two Weeks in Another Town · as Chanteuse |
| 1959 | Ford Startime (TV Series) |