Everything about Cicely Tyson totally explained
Cicely Tyson (born
December 19 1933) is an
American Emmy Award-winning and
Academy Award-nominated actress. A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for appearances in the film
Sounder and the television specials
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and
Roots.
Biography
Tyson's parents, Theodosia and William Tyson, came from the island of
Nevis of
Saint Kitts and Nevis in the
West Indies, but she was born and raised in
Harlem,
New York City.
Tyson was discovered by a photographer for
Ebony magazine, and became a popular fashion model. Her first film was an uncredited role in
Carib Gold in 1957, but she went on to do television - the celebrated series
East Side/West Side and the long-running soap opera
The Guiding Light.
In 1961, Tyson appeared in the original cast of French playwright
Jean Genet's
The Blacks, the longest running Off-Broadway non-musical of the decade, running for 1,408 performances. The original cast also featured
James Earl Jones,
Roscoe Lee Browne,
Louis Gossett, Jr.,
Godfrey Cambridge,
Maya Angelou and
Charles Gordone.
Tyson starred opposite
Sammy Davis Jr. in the film,
A Man Called Adam (1966), and also starred in the film version of
Graham Greene's
The Comedians (1967), and had a featured role in
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968).
In 1972, she was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the critically acclaimed
Sounder. In 1974 she won two
Emmy Awards for
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Other acclaimed television roles included
Roots,
King, in which she portrayed
Coretta Scott King,
The Marva Collins Story,
When No One Would Listen and
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All for which she received her third Emmy award.
In 2005, Tyson co-starred in the movies
Because of Winn-Dixie and
Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Also the same year she was honored by
Oprah Winfrey at her
Legends Ball.
She married famous
jazz trumpeter
Miles Davis on
26 November 1981 -- the ceremony was conducted by Atlanta mayor
Andrew Young at the home of actor
Bill Cosby. Tyson and Davis divorced in 1988.
The Cicely Tyson school of Performing and Fine Arts, a magnet school in
East Orange, New Jersey was renamed in her honor.
Filmography
Film
Television
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