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Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Uggams in Deadpool (2016)
She is also a board member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and TADA, a children's musical theatre.
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Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Uggams in Deadpool (2016)
Among her most recent concerts are the Pittsburgh Symphony, Rhode Island Symphony, and The Memorial Day Concert on the Washington Mall, in front of 300,000 people, televised live by PBS.
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Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Uggams in Deadpool (2016)
Off stage, Leslie is a founding member of the BRAVO Chapter/City of Hope - a charitable organisation dedicated to the study, treatment and eradication of all blood-related diseases.
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Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Uggams in Deadpool (2016)
Grew up in the Washington Heights section of New York City.
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Leslie Uggams in Deadpool (2016)
She made her national television debut at age six on the television series Beulah (1950), portraying the niece of Ethel Waters.
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Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Uggams in Deadpool (2016)
She began performing regularly at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem as an extra added attraction before the performances of such legends as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington at age six.
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Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Uggams in Deadpool 2 (2018)
Reprised her role in 1989/90 at the Lincoln Center's Vivien Beaumont Theatre on Broadway. 1991 saw Leslie touring in "Stringbean", a new play with music based on Ethel Waters' rise to fame in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Leslie Uggams in Empire (2015)
Daughter Danielle Chambers is a singer/actress who attended high school in Beverly Hills, California. Upon graduating, she went to New York City to study Theatre and Film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She has sung on cruise ships, appeared in a number of regional musicals ("Titanic", "Into the Woods", "Beehive") and produced and performed her own cabaret show.
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Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Uggams in Deadpool (2016)
She was awarded Broadway's 1968 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for "Hallelujah, Baby!" in a tie with Patricia Routledge for "Darling of the Day".
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Dub Taylor and Leslie Uggams in Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)
She was nominated for the 2001 Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Actress in a Play for "King Hedley II" on Broadway in New York City.
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Al Freeman Jr. and Leslie Uggams at an event for Twen-Police (1968)
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Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Susan Dey, Jeanne Crain, Roosevelt Grier, Yvette Mimieux, etc.
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Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Susan Dey, Jeanne Crain, Yvette Mimieux, Walter Pidgeon, etc.
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Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Susan Dey, Jeanne Crain, Roosevelt Grier, Mariette Hartley, etc.
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