# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leslie-uggams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:54:25.765Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leslie-uggams"
name: "Leslie Uggams"
slug: "leslie-uggams"
description: "Leslie Marian Uggams 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. Uggams gained wider recognition for portraying Kizzy Reynolds in the television miniseries Roots (1977), earning Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for her performance."
tagline: "American actress and singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leslie_Uggams_1971.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-05-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           63.9
  momentum:             0.8271286025426733
  historical:           23.30286933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 152
platforms:
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    handle:    "LeslieUggams"
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    handle:    "leslieuggams1"
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  - platform:  "X"
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    handle:    "leslieuggams"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "@leslieuggamsofficial"
    followers: 152
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Аггамс, Лесли"
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    title: "Leslie Uggams"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump