Cicely Tyson Roles / Cicely Tyson Dies; Emmy-Winning Actress Was 96 - TV Fanatic / Cicely tyson, the pioneering black actor who received an oscar nomination for her role as a sharecropper's wife in sounder , won a tony award in 2013 at age 88.
Cicely Tyson Roles / Cicely Tyson Dies; Emmy-Winning Actress Was 96 - TV Fanatic / Cicely tyson, the pioneering black actor who received an oscar nomination for her role as a sharecropper's wife in sounder , won a tony award in 2013 at age 88. . Her notable credits included the tv movie the autobiography of miss jane pittman and the. Cicely tyson was born in harlem, new york city, where she was raised by her devoutly religious parents, from the caribbean island of nevis. The roles she played reflected her. After seeing geraldine page's moving performance in the 1985 film, the trip to bountiful, legendary actress cicely tyson told her agent that she would. In cicely tyson's groundbreaking role in the 1974 television movie the autobiography of miss jane pittman—for which she won two emmys (actress of the year and best lead actress in a drama). Challenges make u discover things about yourself that u never really knew. Tyson was born and raised in harlem, the