Leslie Uggams

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Leslie Uggams (born May 25, 1943 in New York City) is an African American actress and singer, best known for her Tony Award-winning work in Hallelujah, Baby!

Uggams first started in show business as a child in 1950, playing the niece of Ethel Waters on the television series Beulah. She was a regular on Sing Along with Mitch, starring record producer/conductor Mitch Miller. Since then, she has had a variety show added to her list of credits (The Leslie Uggams Show) as well as one of the lead roles in Roots, as Kizzy. Uggams also starred in the 1975 film Poor Pretty Eddy (a.k.a. Poor Pretty Eddie, Black Vengeance and Redneck County), in which she played a popular singer who, upon being stranded in the deep South, is abused and humiliated by the perverse denizens of a backwoods town.

Uggams has appeared on Hollywood Squares, and fell victim to one of Paul Lynde's more famous quips. After being asked if Roman legend says that God made the people of the world in a large oven, Lynde looked at her and remarked "Looks like you were overcooked".

During the 1980s Uggams appeared in Blues in the Night, Jerry's Girls, and replaced Patti LuPone as Reno Sweeney in the Lincoln Center revival of Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes. Later Broadway roles include Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond at the Cort Theatre.

In 1996, Uggams played the role of Rose Keefer on All My Children.

Preceded by
Barbara Harris
for The Apple Tree		 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical
1968
for Hallelujah, Baby!		 Succeeded by
Angela Lansbury
for Dear World

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