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Cicely Tyson
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Cicely Tyson was an American stage, film, and television actor who also worked as a model. Born in Harlem, The Bronx, she began her professional career in 1950. Her notable awards include the Spingarn Medal, the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Kennedy Center Honors. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Tyson was married to Miles Davis and had one child. She resided in Malibu and identified as a vegetarian. Her written works include the memoir *Just As I Am* and *My Mother, My Champion*. She was recognized in the Hollywood Walk of Fame collection and the Peabody Award collection. Tyson died on January 28, 2021.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- My Mother, My Champion
- Just As I Am
- Just As I Am : a Memoir
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · New York City, New York, USA
Cicely Louise Tyson (December 19, 1924 – January 28, 2021) was an American actress. In a career which spanned more than seven decades in film, television and theatre, she became known for her portrayal of strong African-American women. Tyson received various awards including three Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Tony Award, an Honorary Academy Award, and a Peabody Award. Description…
Known for
- How It Feels to Be Free — Self (archival footage)2021
- A Fall from Grace — Alice2020
- Cherish the Day — Miss Luma Lee Langston2020
- The Other Boys of Summer — Narrator2019
- Tamron Hall — Self - Guest2019
- Last Flag Flying — Mrs. Hightower2017
- Steve — Self2017
- Showing Roots — Hattie2016
- Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise — Self2016
- The Trip to Bountiful — Mrs. Watts2014
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 6
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes
· 2015 · cited 12,019x
- Enzymatic Determination of Total Serum Cholesterol
· 1974 · cited 6,213x
- Body-mass index and incidence of cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies
· 2008 · cited 4,333x
- STAMP: statistical analysis of taxonomic and functional profiles
· 2014 · cited 3,802x
- LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
· 2019 · cited 3,504x
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Quotes
- “I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.”
- “My parents began their married life together in a Bronx tenement before later relocating to Manhattan's East Side. The year after they wed, they welcomed my brother, Melrose, a name my father had loved since the day he spotted it on a street sign in the Bronx. Six days before Christmas in 1924, I arrived with my thumb poked in my mouth and nary a strand of hair. A year and a half later, my sister, Emily, came along to complete our family, crossing the "T" on the Tyson five.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louise
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- The Bronx
- Place of death
- New York City
- Spouse
- Miles Davis
- Occupation
- voice actor
- Educated at
- The New School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Baptists
- Notable work
- How to Get Away with Murder
- Hair colour
- black hair
- Image
- Cicely Tyson.jpg
- Height
- 63.5
- Number of children
- 1
- Residence
- Malibu
Show 14 more facts
- date of birth
- 1933-12-19
- Commons category
- Cicely Tyson
- Commons gallery
- Cicely Tyson
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- start of work period
- 1950-00-00
- social media followers
- 58467
- date of death
- 2021-01-28
- lifestyle
- vegetarianism
- name in native language
- Cicely Tyson
- end of work period
- 2021-00-00
- birth name
- Cicely Louise Tyson
- net worth
- 10000000
- relative
- Lenny Kravitz
- place of burial
- Woodlawn Cemetery
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Encyclopedic overview
Cecily Louise "Cicely" Tyson (/ˈsɪsəliː/; December 19, 1924 – January 28, 2021) was an American actress. In a career spanning seven decades, she portrayed complex and strong-willed African American women. She received several awards including three Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award. She was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2018.
Tyson garnered widespread attention and critical acclaim for her performance as a Black mother facing adversity in the dramatic film Sounder (1972), for which she was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She also acted in films such as A Man Called Adam (1966), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), The River Niger (1976), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005), Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), The Help (2011) and Last Flag Flying (2017).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cicely Tyson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.