2024Winner
Best Performance
Deadpool & Wolverine
Leslie Uggams
Actor
Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
May 25, 1943
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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Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2016Winner
Best Performance
Deadpool
2018Nominee
Best Performance
Deadpool 2
Career Highlights
2023Highlight
Best Performance
American Fiction
2018Highlight
Best Performance
Once Upon a Deadpool