Leslie Uggams
10 titles
Filmography
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Poor Pretty Eddie
(1975)Poor Pretty Eddie is a surreal psycho-thriller that broke all the rules of B-movie film-making when it unleashed its sordid tale of a black celebrity from the big city stranded in a backwoods redneck nightmare. Liz Wetherly (Leslie Uggams) is a popular singer just looking for a little break from her hectic schedule. But when her car breaks down, she ends up stuck in a remote southern town that‘s been left for dead “ever since they put in the interstate.” Forced to spend the night, she finds herself having to endure “Bertha’s Oasis”, a rundown lodge that serves as the bizzaro fiefdom of faded, overweight burlesque star Bertha (Shelly Winters), her much younger boy-toy and aspiring Elvis wannabe, Eddie (Michael Christian), and a cast of suitably strange townsfolk.

Dotty and Soul
(2023)A scandal-hit entrepreneur hires an elderly vendor as his company's figurehead, but she soon takes charge, disrupting all his plans.

American Fiction
(2023)Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

The Ravine
(2022)An unthinkable tragedy rocks a close community. Those who remain embark on a journey through the darkness, searching for understanding and solace.

Deadpool
(2016)Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of mercenary Wade Wilson, who hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
Extrapolations
Eight interconnected stories told over 33 years explore how our planet’s changing climate will affect family, work, faith—and survival.

Nanny
(2022)Aisha is an undocumented nanny working for a privileged couple in New York City. As she prepares for the arrival of the son she left behind in West Africa, a violent presence invades her reality, threatening the American dream she is painstakingly piecing together.

Fallout
Based on one of the greatest video games of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them above.

Deadpool 2
(2018)Wisecracking anti-hero Deadpool joins a motley collection of mutants to save a rebellious teenage mutant from the grip of a powerful enemy

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
(2017)Oprah Winfrey stars in the true story of a woman's search for enlightenment about her mother--whose cancer cells would save millions.