Name	Leslie Uggams
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	25-May-1943
Place of Birth	New York City, New York, U.S.
Famous for	Acting

Leslie Uggams is an American actress and singer, perhaps best known for her work in Hallelujah, Baby! and the miniseries Roots. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Uggams started in show business as a child in 1950, playing the niece of Ethel Waters on Beulah. Uggams made her singing debut on the Lawrence Welk Show and was a regular on Sing Along with Mitch, starring record producer-conductor Mitch Miller. In 1960, she sang, off-screen, "Give Me That Old Time Religion" in the film Inherit the Wind. Uggams came to be recognized by TV audiences as an upcoming teen talent in 1954 on the NBC/CBS hit musical quiz show series "Name That Tune" (1953-9) along with child hitmaker Eddie Hodges.

Her records "One More Sunrise" and "House Built On Sand" made Billboard Magazine's charts. She appeared in her own television variety show, The Leslie Uggams Show in 1969. This was the "first network variety show to feature an African-American host since the mid-1950s Nat "King" Cole Show." She had a lead role in the 1977 miniseries Roots, for which she received an Emmy nomination, as Kizzy. She also made guest appearances on such television programs as Hollywood Squares, Fantasy, The Muppet Show, and Magnum, P.I. In 1996, Uggams played the role of Rose Keefer on All My Children. Uggams starred in the 1975 film Poor Pretty Eddie, 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.