Leslie Uggams Autographs
Leslie Marian Uggams (/ˈʌɡəmz/; born May 25, 1943) 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.
Later in her career, Uggams received renewed notice with appearances as Blind Al in the superhero films Deadpool (2016), Deadpool 2 (2018), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Her other prominent roles were as Leah Walker on the Fox musical drama series Empire (2016–2020); as Agnes Ellison in the comedy-drama film American Fiction (2023); and as Betty Pearson in the Amazon Original post-apocalyptic drama series Fallout (2024), based on the video game of the same name.
Uggams was born in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the daughter of Juanita Ernestine (Smith), a Cotton Club chorus girl/dancer, and Harold Coyden Uggams, an elevator operator and maintenance man, who was a singer with the Hall Johnson choir. She attended the Professional Children's School of New York and Juilliard. Her aunt, singer Eloise C. Uggams, encouraged her musical training. One of her grandfathers was Coyden H. Uggams, twice pastor of Zion Presbyterian Church in Charleston, South Carolina, from 1902 to 1906 and 1913 to 1919.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Leslie Uggams (King Hedley II Signed Playbill Leslie Uggams Viola Davis Brian Stokes Mitchell) was sold in May 2025 for $209.50 while the cheapest item (Leslie Uggams Signed 4x6 Photo Deadpool 2 Empire Roots Actress Singer Autograph) found a new owner for $0.01 in September 2023. The month with the most items sold (4) was April 2025 with an average selling price of $99.99 for an autographed item of Leslie Uggams. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in May 2025 with $209.50 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was January 2017. In average, an autographed item from Leslie Uggams is worth $9.97.
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