Cicely Tyson Actress Who Showed the Power of Women Dies at 96
She won an Academy Award nomination for “The Sounder,” which won an Academy Award from the audience for “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” and won a Tony Award for The Trip to Bountiful
Tyson made her film debut with a small role in “Twelve Angry Men” in 1957 and her official debut in Sidney Poitier in 1959 “Odds Against Tomorrow,” followed by “The Comedians,” “The Last Angry Man” and “A Man.
Cicely Tyson Actress Who Showed the Power of Women Dies at 96
” Called Adam and the heart is a lonely hunter. She refused to participate in the blaxploitation films that became popular in the late 1960s,
and waited until 1972 to return to the screen in the drama “Sounder,” which garnered several Oscar nominations including one for Tyson as Best Actress.
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Tyson accomplished a long-coveted goal in 2013 when she starred as the grieving Lady Carrie Watts in the revival of Horton Foote’s film The Trip to Bountiful, and won Tony’s Best Actress in the process. She then received two Emmy nominations – for Lifetime Casting and Executive Implementation Year After.
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Cicely Tyson Actress Who Showed the Power of Women Dies at 96
Tyson received her Best Actress Oscar for playing slave Rebecca Morgan in the drama Martin Rhett Probe (1972). She lost to Cabaret’s Lisa Minnelli but eventually landed a long-awaited statuette at the Governors Awards.
