Cicely Tyson, ‘Sounder’ and ‘Miss Jane Pittman’ star, dead at 96
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nypost.comaccording to The Associated Press.This week her latest book, “Just As I Am: A Memoir,” was published. It includes a forward by actress Viola Davis, who wrote of her Tyson’s memorable work, “Every one of these characters has left me with an emotional, spiritual, and psychological inheritance I will forever carry with me.”On Twitter Jan.
23, Tyson thanked fellow actress Lupita Nyong’o for sharing kind words about her. “Without the gains of women like her, women like me would have much greater pains to bear in the arts,” Nyong’o wrote in December.Born in the Big Apple in December 1924, Tyson was discovered by a photographer for Ebony magazine and landed her first role on NBC’s “Frontiers of Faith” in 1951.It was Tyson’s own faith that would.
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