What actress starred in Poor Pretty Eddie, and as Kizzy Reynolds "Roots"?
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Poor Pretty Eddie Poor Pretty Eddie is a 1975 American film starring Leslie Uggams, Shelley Winters and Michael Christian. Made on a relatively small budget, it is known for having an atypical narrative and directorial style, which combines elements of horror, exploitation film making, Southern gothic, and pornographic film. It has subsequently become popular in cult and B movie circles.
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Leslie Uggams Leslie Marian Uggams (born May 25, 1943) is an American actress and singer. Beginning her career as a child in the early 1950s, Uggams is recognized for portraying Kizzy Reynolds in the television miniseries "Roots" (1977), earning Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for her performance. She had earlier been highly acclaimed for the Broadway musical "Hallelujah, Baby!", winning a Theatre World Award in 1967 and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1968. Later in her career, Uggams received renewed notice with appearances alongside Ryan Reynolds in "Deadpool" (2016) and in a recurring role on "Empire".
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Peri Gilpin Peri Gilpin (born Peri Kay Oldham; May 27, 1961) is an American actress. Best known for portraying Roz Doyle in the U.S. television series "Frasier", Gilpin is also known for portraying Kim Keeler in the ABC Family television drama "Make It or Break It".
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Joyce Bulifant Joyce Collins Bulifant (born December 16, 1937) is an American television actress, notable for her sunny "little girl"-like Southern lilt of a voice. She was a frequent panelist on the television game shows "Chain Reaction", "Match Game", and "Password Plus".
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Nellie Bellflower Nellie Bellflower (born May 1, 1946 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American actress and voice artist who provided the voice of Princess Ariel in the Ruby-Spears animated television series "Thundarr the Barbarian". She has also been in "The Last Unicorn" (voice), Rankin/Bass "The Return of the King", "Americathon", the miniseries "East of Eden", and guest roles on various TV shows such as "Barnaby Jones", "Barney Miller", "Starsky and Hutch", and "Happy Days" as Fonzie's ex-fiancée Maureen Johnson, a.k.a. "The Lone Stripper", in the Season 2 episode of the series titled "Fonzie's Getting Married" (episode #13). Nellie has been involved in movie production with three projects: "The Girl in Melanie Klein" (2008), "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" (2008) and "Finding Neverland" (2004), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award as Producer for Best Picture. She is married to Michael Mislove.
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Eddie Fisher (singer) Edwin John "Eddie" Fisher (August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010) was an American singer and actor. He was the most successful pop singles artist during the first half of the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show. Fisher divorced his first wife, actress Debbie Reynolds, to marry Reynolds' best friend, actress Elizabeth Taylor, after Taylor's husband, film producer Mike Todd, was killed in a plane crash. The scandalous affair was widely reported, bringing unfavorable publicity to Fisher. He later married Connie Stevens. Fisher fathered Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher with Reynolds, and Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher with Stevens.
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Bess Armstrong Elizabeth Key "Bess" Armstrong (born December 11, 1953) is an American film, stage and television actress. She is best known for her roles in films "The Four Seasons" (1981), "High Road to China" (1983), "Jaws 3-D" (1983), and "Nothing in Common" (1986). Armstrong also starred in the critically acclaimed ABC drama series "My So-Called Life" and had lead roles in a number of made-for-television films.
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Rebecca Ryan Rebecca Ryan (born 27 April 1991) is an English actress. She attended St Monica's High School in Manchester. Ryan is best known for playing the role of Debbie Gallagher in the Channel 4 comedy drama series "Shameless" from 2004 to 2009 and as Vicki MacDonald in the BBC school-based drama series, "Waterloo Road" from 2009 to 2011. She has appeared in the UK tour of "Beryl", written by her former "Shameless" co-star, Maxine Peake, who played Veronica Ball.
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Helen Fraser (actress) Helen Fraser (born Helen Margaret Stronach; born 15 June 1942 in Oldham, Lancashire) is an English actress, who has appeared in many television series since the early 1960s. For international audiences, she may be best known for her roles in "Billy Liar" (1963) and "Repulsion" (1965). She is also well known for portraying the role of miserable warder Sylvia Hollamby in the prison drama series "Bad Girls". She appeared in the series from the very first episode in 1999 to the very last in 2006.
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Jackie Burns Jackie Burns is an American actress working in musical theater.
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Harriet MacGibbon Harriet MacGibbon (October 5, 1905 – February 8, 1987) was an American stage, film, and television actress best known for her role as the insufferably snobbish, "blue-blooded Bostonian" Mrs. Margaret Drysdale in the long-running CBS sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies".
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The Debbie Reynolds Show The Debbie Reynolds Show is an American situation comedy which aired on the NBC television network during the 1969–70 television season. The series was produced by Filmways.
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Kacey Ainsworth Kacey Ainsworth (born 19 October 1968) is an English actress, best known for playing the long-suffering Little Mo in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders" (2000–2006), for which she won the 2002 National Television Award for Most Popular Actress, and twice won the British Soap Award for Best Actress (2002–03).
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Amy Farrington Amy Farrington (born September 20, 1966) is an American actress and model that is best known for her role as Stacey Devers on "The Michael Richards Show". She was born in Boston, Massachusetts but raised in Garland, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. After attending a musical theatre conservatory program, she worked in local and regional theatres before moving to Chicago. In Chicago, she performed at several theaters including The Bailwick Repertory, The Court Theatre and the Steppenwolf Theatre. Twenty plays later, she moved to Los Angeles. Her first job was as a series regular in a pilot for NBC, followed by the series, "The Michael Richards Show" (2000), for the same network. She then went on to star in pilots for several networks and guest-starred and recurred on numerous sitcoms including "Will & Grace" (1998), "Just Shoot Me!" (1997), "Malcolm in the Middle" (2000), "Two and a Half Men" (2003), "The King of Queens" (1998) and "The New Adventures of Old Christine" (2006).
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Rebecca Root Rebecca Root (born 10 May 1969) is a British actress and stand-up comedian. She was rated 18th in "The Independent on Sunday"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Rainbow List 2014, which named her as one of the very few openly trans actresses in mainstream television, alongside Laverne Cox and Adèle Anderson. She plays the leading role in the 2015–2016 BBC2 sitcom "Boy Meets Girl".
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Melanie Lynskey Melanie Jayne Lynskey (born 16 May 1977) is a New Zealand actress. She received critical acclaim for her screen acting debut as Pauline Parker in "Heavenly Creatures" (1994), which was followed by supporting roles in "Ever After" (1998), "Coyote Ugly" (2000), "Sweet Home Alabama" (2002), and "Shattered Glass" (2003).
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Kirsten Wyatt Kirsten Wyatt (born 1975) is an American stage actress. She portrayed Frenchy in the 2007 Broadway revival of "Grease".
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Julia Blake Julia Blake (born 13 May 1937) is an English-born Australian actress of theatre, television and film. She is known for her role as Nancy McCormack on the Australian drama series "Prisoner" ("Prisoner: Cell Block H"), for which she appeared during the final season in 1986. She appeared in two earlier roles in "Prisoner", as Evelyn Randall (1981) and Alice Dodds (1983). She won the 1989 AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries for "Eden's Lost", and the 1990 AFI {AACTA) Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role opposite Max von Sydow in the film "Father". She also received AFI nominations for "Travelling North" (1987), "Innocence" (2000) and "The Boys are Back" (2009).
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Kelly Curtis Kelly Lee Curtis (born June 17, 1956) is an American actress. She is best known for her film roles in "Trading Places" (1983), "Magic Sticks" (1987), and "The Devil's Daughter" (1991).
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Gillian Lewis Gillian Lewis was an English character actress who, after a varied stage career in the 1950s and early '60s, appeared in a number of television drama series until the late 1970s. Her best known roles were probably as the runaway heiress Geraldine Melford in the original London production of Slade and Reynolds' musical "Free as Air" and, on television, as Drusilla Lamb, secretary to Mr. Rose in the detective series of that name.
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Tracy Pollan Tracy Jo Pollan (born June 22, 1960) is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Ellen Reed on the sitcom "Family Ties" from 1985 to 1987 and for her theater roles.
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Lizabeth Scott Lizabeth Virginia Scott (born Emma Matzo; September 29, 1922 – January 31, 2015) was an American actress, known for her "smoky voice" and being "the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s". After understudying the role of Sabina in the original Broadway and Boston stage productions of "The Skin of Our Teeth", she emerged in such films as "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (1946), "Dead Reckoning" (1947), "Desert Fury" (1947), and "Too Late for Tears" (1949). Of her 21 films, she was the leading lady in all but one. In addition to stage and radio, she appeared on television from the late 1940s to early 1970s.