The actress, who was born in 1924 in New York, was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in the drama Sounder and was the first African-American to receive an Emmy Award for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, an almost unknown television film from the 1970s.
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Originally a model, she appeared in smaller theaters during the 1950s and had nameless roles in films. The first of the better known films was Tomorrow Has No Chance or Heart is a Lone Hunter.
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Later it was Unleashed Hell, Fried Green Tomatoes, and Nobody Wanted to Listen.
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The drama Black and White World is very well known about the young journalist Skeeter, who meets the black maid Aibileen in the 1950s and starts her big literary project. However, he has to keep it a secret from the rich white company, which despises black employees and also has reservations about the white Skeeter, which does not behave normally, thus violating the middle-class ideal of the suburbs.
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Cicely Tyson received a Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.
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TV series played an important role in her career. She started in the classic slavery series Roots, then appeared in the series Murderous Rights or House of Cards, a political thriller starring Kevin Spacey.
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Her latest series was Cherish the Day, and from last year’s Destruction Mrs. Grace, a thriller about an innocent black woman accused of murder.
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