Leslie Uggams and her loving daughter Danielle Chambers are both actresses. Danielle also has her hands in musical theatre.
Uggams is a renowned actress and singer notable for portraying Kizzy Reynolds in the television mini-series Roots (1977). She also earned Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for her remarkable performance in the series.
Harlem, New York native Leslie is highly acclaimed for the Broadway musical Hallelujah, Baby!, for which she won the 1967 Theatre World Awards and the 1968 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
Later in her career, she received renewed recognition as Blind Al in Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018). Leslie also had a recurring role in the American musical drama series Empire, created by Danny Strong and Lee Daniels for Fox.
The actress has been married to her beloved husband, her longtime manager, since 1965. The pair have been blissfully enjoying their 57-year interracial marriage filled with successes and happiness and are blessed with two children, Danielle and Justice Pratt.
Meet Leslie Uggams Daughter Danielle Chambers
Leslie Uggams and her daughter Danielle Chambers have 27 years of age gap. Danielle Chambers was raised in Beverly Hills.
Chambers is also an actress and has been in the business since she was three months old. She would be backstage while her parents, Leslie and Grahame, star in the famous musical “Cabaret” in the Guber Circuit Summer Stock Tour.
Danielle grew up looking at her beloved mother performing and decided to follow in her footsteps. She studied at Beverly Hills High School, and after graduation, she moved to New York to join New York University’s Tisch School of Arts to study Theatre and Film.
As the child of the legendary Leslie, her passion lies in musical theatre. She was a member of the first national tour of the musical Titanic. Since then, Chambers has been part of many regional theatre productions, including Cinderella.
She has also earned credits for Once On This Island and Beehive. She has been in the business since she was three months old. She would be backstage while her parents, Leslie and Grahame, star in the famous musical “Cabaret” in the Guber Circuit Summer Stock Tour.
The actress also produced and performed her cabaret at Eighty-Eight. She worked as a Singing Waitress for Spirit Cruises to build her performance career. She then became a singer for the bands on Spirit of New Jersey.
Danielle is married to Keith Chambers
Danielle has been blissfully married to her beloved husband, Keith Chambers, since November 27, 2002. It was on the “Spirit” that the actress met her wonderful future husband from Buffalo, New York.
Keith is also an actor known for All My Children (2007-2008), Malevolence (2004), and One Life to Live (2006-2008). He graduated from SUNY Binghamton in 1991 with a BA in Economics. It was at college he discovered his true passion for acting.
After graduation, Keith worked as a Union carpenter to support his eventual move to New York City in 1994. He then studied acting and met Danielle. His father, Carl Sr., was a well-respected Union carpenter from Buffalo.
His mother, Constance, was a homemaker, and Keith grew up alongside his four brothers, Carl Chambers Jr, Matthew, John, Kevin, and one sister, Amy. Keith and Danielle are blessed with a child, Kassidy.
The couple are both active social media users who often share beautiful pictures of their families on the platform.
Danielle Grew Up Alongside Her Brother
Justice Pratt is the second and the youngest child of TV, Film, and Broadway legend Uggams. He is an actor known for Girlfriends (2004), Generation Gap (2004), and 1277 Clayton (2017).
Pratt was born on July 28, 1975, in Los Angeles, California, and is forty-seven years old. Following in his mother’s footsteps, Justice was involved in theatres at an early age. According to his IMDb profile, he first earned a role in the 1993 film The Ernest Green Story.
From November 11 to December 13, 2008, Justice played the part of George Murchison in Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.
He played alongside Pierre LaFran Priests Jr., Joy DeMichele Moore, Terrence Riggins, Nicole Gant, Marlene Warfield, Clyde Tyrone Harper, Mick Weber, Robert Greene, Willis Burks II, and Gilbert Owour in the cast. Israel Hicks directed the play.
Justice is approachable on Facebook and is often spotted accompanying his loving family at various events and occasions. He is also often featured on his mother’s Facebook posts. In November 2021, the actor and his mother were spotted at Gershwin Theatre.
On March 7, 2018, Leslie shared a loving picture of her family. She captioned the post, “My wonderful family!” The legendary actress was accompanied by her love Grahame, kids Danielle and Justice, son-in-law Keith, and darling granddaughter, Kassidy.
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