Cicely Tyson HP gallery
A look at Cicely Tyson through the years
Cicely Tyson earned a Tony award in 2013 for work in “The Trip to Bountiful.” (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
American Masters: How It Feels to Be Free -- PBS TV Series, Portrait of Academy Award winning American actress Cicely Tyson smiling and raising her arms in the air during a visit to London, February 19th 1973. (Photo by Dennis Oulds/Central Press/Getty Images) Cicely Tyson in “American Masters: How It Feels to Be Free” on PBS. (Dennis Oulds/PBS)
Actress Cicely Tyson, left, presents the Eleanor Roosevelt Woman of Courage Award to Rosa Parks on Nov. 14, 1984. (Suzanne Vlamis / Associated Press)
FILE - Cicely Tyson poses with her award for best actress in a play for “The Trip to Bountiful,” in the press room at the 67th Annual Tony Awards on June 9, 2013, in New York. Tyson, the pioneering Black actress who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” has died. She was 96. Tyson’s death was announced by her family, via her manager Larry Thompson, who did not immediately provide additional details. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File) (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
FILE - Cicely Tyson poses with her Emmy statuettes at the annual Emmy Awards presentation in Los Angeles, Ca., May 28, 1974. Tyson won for her role in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” for actress of the year, special, and best lead actress in a television drama for a special program. Tyson, the pioneering Black actress who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” has died. She was 96. Tyson’s death was announced by her family, via her manager Larry Thompson, who did not immediately provide additional details. (AP Photo, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
FILE - Cicely Tyson speaks during the funeral service for Aretha Franklin at Greater Grace Temple, Aug. 31, 2018, in Detroit. Tyson, the pioneering Black actress who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” has died. She was 96. Tyson’s death was announced by her family, via her manager Larry Thompson, who did not immediately provide additional details. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)