Leslie Uggams
May 25, 1943 (82 years old) in Harlem, New York, USA
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.
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Credits
- 2024 · Deadpool & Wolverine as Blind Al
- 2024 · Fallout as Betty Pearson
- 2023 · American Fiction as Agnes Ellison
- 2023 · Dotty and Soul as Dotty
- 2023 · Extrapolations as Isabel Zucker
- 2023 · My Dad the Bounty Hunter as Grandma (voice)
- 2022 · Nanny as Kathleen
- 2022 · The Ravine as Joanna
- 2022 · The Gilded Age as Ernestine Brown
- 2021 · Show of Titles as "Hallelujah, Baby!" Performer
- 2021 · The Bite as Dr. Hester Boutella
- 2020 · Blithe Spirit as Madame Arcati
- 2020 · Stars in the House as Madame Arcati
- 2019 · The Apollo as Self
- 2018 · Once Upon a Deadpool as Blind Al
- 2018 · New Amsterdam as Mamma Reynolds
- 2018 · Deadpool 2 as Blind Al
- 2016 · Deadpool as Blind Al
- 2014 · Just the Three of Us as
- 2009 · The Good Wife as Suzanne Packer
- 2009 · Toe to Toe as Grandma