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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….

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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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