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Leslie Marian Uggams (/ ˈ ʌ ɡ ə m z /; [1] born May 25, 1943) [2] 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.
Roots is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley 's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, set during and after the era of slavery in the United States. The series first aired on ABC in January 1977 over eight consecutive nights. A critical and ratings success over the course of its run, Roots received 37 Primetime ...
The cast of the miniseries included LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte, Leslie Uggams as Kizzy, and Ben Vereen as Chicken George. A fourteen-hour sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, aired in 1979, featuring the leading black actors of the day. In December 1988, ABC aired a two-hour made-for-TV movie: Roots: The Gift.
"They loved me,” Leslie Uggams — Tony-winning star of stage and screen — recalled of her 1952 debut at the Apollo Theater as a 9-year-old singing, tap-dancing and doing impressions.
Leslie Uggams Wants to Keep You Guessing. Almost two weeks ago, Deadpool & Wolverine ’s very famous power players—Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Kevin Feige, and director Shawn Levy — hosted a ...
The Leslie Uggams Show is an American variety television series starring actress/singer Leslie Uggams. The series aired on CBS as part of its 1969 fall lineup , and was the second variety series to feature an African American host, the first since the 1956 - '57 The Nat King Cole Show on NBC .
LESLIE UGGAMS as Mrs. Ernestine Brown, Elizabeth Kirkland’s friend and a member of the Black elite community in Newport. LISAGAY HAMILTON as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, the famed Black ...
Poor Pretty Eddie. Poor Pretty Eddie is a 1975 American film starring Leslie Uggams, Shelley Winters and Michael Christian. Made on a relatively small budget, it is known for having an atypical narrative and directorial style, which combines elements of horror, exploitation film making and Southern gothic. It has subsequently become popular in ...