Biography
Leslie Marian Uggams is an American actress and singer. After beginning her career as a child in the early 1950s, she garnered acclaim for her role in the Broadway musical Hallelujah, Baby!, winning a Theatre World Award in 1967 and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1968. Uggams gained wider recognition for portraying Kizzy Reynolds in the television miniseries Roots (1977), earning Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for her performance.
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Awards & recognition
- Theatre World Award · 1967
- Tony Award — Best Actress in a Musical
- TV Land Award
- Tony Award — Best Actress in a Play · 2001 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Actress in a Musical · 1968 · nominated
Filmography40 titles
My Dad the Bounty Hunter
New Amsterdam
Reading Rainbow
Fallout
The Muppet Show
The Gilded Age
The Carol Burnett Show
Deadpool & Wolverine
Deadpool
The Good Wife
Deadpool 2
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Family Guy
Roots
American Fiction
Magnum, P.I.
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Empire
Nurse Jackie
A Different World
The Cosby Show
CBS News Sunday Morning
What's My Line?
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Black Girl
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Apollo
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Love Boat
Skyjacked
Extrapolations
Two Weeks in Another Town
Sugar Hill
Nanny
Poor Pretty Eddie
The Ravine
Flip
Dotty and Soul
Toe to Toe