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Actress Cicely Tyson, star of Sounder, The Help, dies aged 96 – ABC News
The Oscar-nominated, two-time Emmy Award winner who also nabbed a Tony Award aged 88, was introduced to a new generation of moviegoers through 2011 hit The Help….
Cicely Tyson, the pioneering black actress who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in Sounder and won a Tony Award at age 88 in 2013, has died aged 96.
Key points:
- Cicely Tyson’s memoir, Just As I Am, was only published earlier this week
- Born in the Caribbean, the star started out as a model before beginning her screen career in the early 1970s
- Over the course of her career, she was nominated for an Academy Award, nabbed a Tony and two Emmys
Tyson’s death was announced…
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