American actress and singer Leslie Marian Uggams is well-known. Uggams began her career as a child actor in the early 1950s. She is most known for her role as Kizzy Reynolds in the television miniseries Roots, for which she received nominations for both a Golden Globe and an Emmy.
She made her Broadway debut in the revue Blues in the Night in 1982 and in the Jerry Herman musical extravaganza Jerry’s Girls in 1985.
Patti LuPone was replaced by Uggams as Reno Sweeney in the Lincoln Center revival of Cole Porter’s musical Anything Goes on Broadway in March 1989.
Leslie Uggams husband
Leslie Uggams is married to Grahame Pratt. Grahame Pratt was born on November 13, 1936, in Australia. He is an actor, known for Skyjacked (1972)
Leslie Uggams children
She has two children named Danielle Chambers, and Justice Pratt.
Leslie Uggams parents
Leslie Marian Uggams was born in Harlem, NYC, to Juanita Ernestine (Smith), a Cotton Club chorus girl/dancer, and Harold Coyden Uggams, an elevator operator, and maintenance man.
Leslie Uggams siblings
There’s currently no information on who his siblings are.
