Leslie Uggams
Birthday: 1943-05-25
Place of Birth: 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.
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Dotty and Soul
Ethan Cox is poised to sell his self-driving car company when his problematic Halloween costume goes...
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Poor Pretty Eddie
A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge ru...
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Sugar Hill
In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner...
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Nanny
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City...
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Black Girl
An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter....
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Skyjacked
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia....
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about Ame...
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC....
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning w...
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American Fiction
A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to wri...
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Deadpool
The origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who, after being s...
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Two Weeks in Another Town
After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old dir...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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Deadpool & Wolverine
A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life with his days as the morally flexible mercenary, ...
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A Special Sesame Street Christmas
Leslie Uggams hosts this take on A Christmas Carol, where she and fellow guest stars, Anne Murray, I...
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Deadpool 2
Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy...
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Words and Music by Jerry Herman
WORDS AND MUSIC is the story of one of Broadway's iconic figures: the composer/lyricist of Hello, Do...
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Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
He hasn't had a new Broadway show since 1983's La Cage Aux Folles, but composer Jerry Herman has bec...
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Once Upon a Deadpool
A kidnapped Fred Savage is forced to endure Deadpool's PG-13 rendition of Deadpool 2, as a Princess ...
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The Ice Capades with Jason Bateman and Alyssa Milano
A special featuring celebrity guest stars and championship ice skaters from the United States and th...
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The Apollo
The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment....
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Sizzle
A sultry nightclub singer, a small-town girl in the big city, sets out to avenge her boyfriend's mur...
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Blithe Spirit
Researching material for a new novel, Charles engages Madame Arcati, a spiritual medium of uncertain...
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Just the Three of Us
Just The Three Of Us is a short fiction film about an interracial couple in their 70s looking to spi...
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The Ravine
This true story begins on a weekday morning in a peaceful suburb of Akron, Ohio, the town awakens to...
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S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin
A musical tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin...
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Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
Documentary about the creation of the iconic Broadway show...
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Show of Titles
An evening of celebrated stars performing the titles songs from Broadway’s best....
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Toe to Toe
Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and dee...
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