Leslie Uggams
Acting • Born 1943-05-25
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
75 credits
Dotty and Soul
Movie • 2023
Dotty
Poor Pretty Eddie
Movie • 1975
Elizabeth 'Liz' Wetherly
Sugar Hill
Movie • 1994
Doris Holly
Nanny
Movie • 2022
Kathleen
Black Girl
Movie • 1972
Netta
Skyjacked
Movie • 1972
Lovejoy Wells
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Movie • 2003
Self
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Movie • 1988
Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Movie • 1970
Self (archive footage)
American Fiction
Movie • 2023
Agnes Ellison
Deadpool
Movie • 2016
Blind Al
Two Weeks in Another Town
Movie • 1962
Chanteuse
Night of 100 Stars II
Movie • 1985
Self
Deadpool & Wolverine
Movie • 2024
Blind Al
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
Movie • 1978
Self
Deadpool 2
Movie • 2018
Blind Al
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Movie • 2007
Self
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
Movie • 1994
Self
Once Upon a Deadpool
Movie • 2018
Blind Al
The Ice Capades with Jason Bateman and Alyssa Milano
Movie • 1989
The Apollo
Movie • 2019
Self
Sizzle
Movie • 1981
Vonda
Blithe Spirit
Movie • 2020
Madame Arcati
Just the Three of Us
Movie • 2014
The Ravine
Movie • 2022
Joanna
S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin
Movie • 1972
Self
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
Movie • 1995
Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring
Movie • 1978
Show of Titles
Movie • 2021
"Hallelujah, Baby!" Performer
Easter Is
Movie • 1974
(voice)
Toe to Toe
Movie • 2009
Grandma
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Movie • 2017
Sadie
Remembering Roots
Movie • 2002
Self
Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
Alexis Carter
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1966
Natasha Brimstone
The Cosby Show
TV • 1984
Kris Temple
Hotel
TV • 1982
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
The Early Show
TV • 1999
Self
The Muppet Show
TV • 1976
Self - Special Guest Star
Backstairs at the White House
TV • 1979
Lillian Rogers Parks
The Hollywood Palace
TV • 1964
Self - Singer
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
TV • 1969
Self
Hullabaloo
TV • 1965
Self
The Dean Martin Show
TV • 1965
The Flip Wilson Show
TV • 1970
Self
Roots
TV • 1977
Kizzy Reynolds
The Bite
TV • 2021
Dr. Hester Boutella
The Leslie Uggams Show
TV • 1969
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
That's Life
TV • 1968
Extrapolations
TV • 2023
Isabel Zucker
Startime
TV • 1959
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Leslie Uggams (voice)
New Amsterdam
TV • 2018
Mamma Reynolds
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Reading Rainbow
TV • 1983
Self - Narrator (voice)
A Different World
TV • 1987
Dr. Eileen Redding
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
The Carol Burnett Show
TV • 1967
Self
Hullabaloo
TV • 1965
Self - Host
Stars in the House
TV • 2020
Madame Arcati
Fallout
TV • 2024
Betty Pearson
Roots
TV • 1977
Kizzy Reynolds Moore
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Marion Blake
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Callie Reason
My Dad the Bounty Hunter
TV • 2023
Grandma (voice)
The Danny Kaye Show
TV • 1963
Self
The Good Wife
TV • 2009
Suzanne Packer
CBS News Sunday Morning
TV • 1979
Self
The Bobby Darin Show
TV • 1973
The Gilded Age
TV • 2022
Ernestine Brown