Cicely Tyson
Actor, Theater Actor
1933 –
Who is Cicely Tyson?
Cicely L. Tyson is an American actress. Tyson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the Golden Globe Award for her performance as Rebecca Morgan in Sounder. For this role she also won the NSFC Best Actress and NBR Best Actress Awards. She starred in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, for which she won two Emmy Awards and was nominated for a BAFTA Award.
Throughout her career she has been nominated for nine Primetime Emmy Awards, winning three. In 2011 she appeared in the feature film version of The Help, for which she received awards for her ensemble work as Constantine from the BFCA and SAG Awards and she has an additional three SAG Award nominations. She starred on Broadway in The Trip to Bountiful as Carrie Watts, for which she won the Tony Award, Outer Critics Award, and Drama Desk Award for Best Actress in a Play. She previously received a Drama Desk Award in 1962 for her Off-Broadway performance in Moon on a Rainbow Shawl.
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- Born
- Dec 19, 1933
Harlem - Also known as
- Cicley Tysson
- Cicely L. Tyson
- Parents
- Spouses
- Miles Davis
(1981/11/26 - 1988)
- Miles Davis
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- New York City
- Atlanta
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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