Leslie Uggams

Acting · Born 1943-05-25 in Harlem, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Filmography

• American Fiction as Agnes Ellison
• Deadpool as Blind Al
• Deadpool & Wolverine as Blind Al
• Deadpool 2 as Blind Al
• Once Upon a Deadpool as Blind Al
• Dotty and Soul as Dotty
• Poor Pretty Eddie as Elizabeth 'Liz' Wetherly
• Sugar Hill as Doris Holly
• Nanny as Kathleen
• Black Girl as Netta

TV

• The Muppet Show as Self - Special Guest Star
• New Amsterdam as Mamma Reynolds
• Fallout as Betty Pearson
• The Gilded Age as Ernestine Brown
• Magnum, P.I. as Alexis Carter
• The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Natasha Brimstone
• The Cosby Show as Kris Temple
• Hotel
• The Mod Squad
• The Early Show as Self