Find a Grave Cicely Tyson (1924-2021)
Find a Grave Cicely Tyson (1924-2021)
Cicely Tyson
BIrth 19 Dec 1924
Harlem, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA
Death 28 Jan 2021 (aged 96)
New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA
Burial
Woodlawn Cemetery
Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA
Actress
Award winning actress known for her portrayal of strong African American women, her career spanned six decades in the theater and on film.
The daughter of immigrants from the West Indies, she began her career as a model for “Ebony,” “Jet,” “Harper Bazaar,” and “Vogue” magazines. Along with Maya Angelou, James Earl Jones, and Louis Gossett, Jr., she was part of the original cast of the play “The Blacks: A Clown Shoe.” It was the longest running off-Broadway non-musical production of the 1960s. She appeared in the Broadway productions of “Tiger Tiger Burning Bright” (1962), “A Hand is on the Gate” (1966), “Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights” (1968), and “The Corn is Green” (1983). She returned to the stage in 2013 as Carrie Watts in “The Trip to Bountiful,” a role that garnered her a Tony Award. She also starred in the 2014 television movie of the same name.
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Her breakthrough role was in the movie “Sounder” (1972) as Rebecca, a sharecropper’s wife, and she was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 1974 she played the title role in the television movie “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” the story of a black woman born as a slave in the 1850s.
Her story is told through an interview with a journalist during the Civil Rights movement when Jane is 110 years old. The film received nine Emmy Awards, with Tyson receiving the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama and the Emmy for Actress of the Year – Special. She appeared in the television mini-series “Roots” (1977), and “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All” (1994) for which she won a third Emmy.
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Cicely Tyson received an Emmy nomination for portraying Coretta Scott King in the 1978 television mini-series “King,” and two NAACP Image awards for the films “The Marva Collins Story” (1981) and “Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story” (1986). She became the first African American to star in a television drama as Jane Foster in “Eastside/Westside” (1963 – 1964) and played a civil rights activist in the series “Sweet Justice” (1994 – 1995). She was cast in the television drama “How to Get Away with Murder” (2014 – 2020) as Ophelia Harkness, the mother of Viola Davis’ character, a role which earned her five Emmy nominations.
Cicely Tyson received a Screen Actors Guild Award for “The Help” (2012) and an honorary Oscar award (2019), becoming the first African American woman to receive the honor. She was the Kennedy Center Honoree in 2015; and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame (2018) and the Television Hall of Fame (2020). In 2016 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.
Find a Grave Cicely Tyson (1924-2021)
In her autobiography “Just as I Am” that was released shortly before her death, she reveals she initially hung up on the aide calling to notify her of the honor because she thought it was a prank. She had a tumultuous relationship with jazz musician Miles Davis in the 1960s and she is featured on the cover of his 1967 album “Sorcerer.” After his marriage and subsequent divorce, they were married at the home of actor Bill Cosby in 1981. They remained married until she filed for divorce two years before his death in 1991.
Woodlawn Cemetery
Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA
