Leslie Uggams
ActingAlso Known As
Leslie Marian 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.
Movies
(33 total)
Deadpool
as Blind Al
Deadpool 2
as Blind Al
Deadpool & Wolverine
as Blind Al
American Fiction
as Agnes Ellison
Once Upon a Deadpool
as Blind Al
Nanny
as Kathleen
Sugar Hill
as Doris Holly
Two Weeks in Another Town
as Chanteuse
Skyjacked
as Lovejoy Wells
Poor Pretty Eddie
as Elizabeth 'Liz' Wetherly
The Apollo
as Self
The Ravine
as Joanna
Toe to Toe
as Grandma
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
Black Girl
as Netta
Dotty and Soul
as Dotty
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
TV Shows
(42 total)
Family Guy
as Leslie Uggams (voice)
Fallout
as Betty Pearson
New Amsterdam
as Mamma Reynolds
The Good Wife
as Suzanne Packer
The Cosby Show
as Kris Temple
Magnum, P.I.
as Alexis Carter
The Muppet Show
as Self - Special Guest Star
The Gilded Age
as Ernestine Brown
Roots
as Kizzy Reynolds
Roots
as Kizzy Reynolds Moore
The Love Boat
as Marion Blake
The Love Boat
as Callie Reason
Extrapolations
as Isabel Zucker
A Different World
as Dr. Eileen Redding
My Dad the Bounty Hunter
as Grandma (voice)
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
The Bite
as Dr. Hester Boutella