🎬Leslie Uggams

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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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) Most waited movies 2023 and after	Blind Al		7.9
2	American Fiction (2023)	Agnes Ellison		7.1
3	Nanny (2022)	Kathleen		5.5
4	The Apollo (2019)	Self	-	-
5	Deadpool 2 (2018) Top 100 by FilmGator	Blind Al		8
6	Once Upon a Deadpool (2018)	Blind Al		7.5
7	Once Upon a Deadpool (2018)	Blind Al		7.4
8	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)	Sadie		7
9	Deadpool (2016) Top 100 by FilmGator	Blind Al		8.3
10	Sugar Hill (1994)	Doris Holly		8
11	Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)	Elizabeth 'Liz' Wetherly		6
12	Black Girl (1972)	Netta	-	-
13	King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)	Self (archive footage)		10
14	Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)	Chanteuse		6