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Trailblazing actress Cicely Tyson is dead at 96
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msn.comdied Thursday. She was 96. Tyson got her first major break at age 48, when she landed the role of a sharecropper's wife in Sounder, earning her critical acclaim and an Oscar nomination.
She won two Emmys, including best lead actress in a drama, for her starring performance in the hit 1974 CBS TV movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and she won a third Emmy in 1994 for her supporting role in the CBS TV movie Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.
She also earned Emmy nominations for playing the mother of LeVar Burton's Kunta Kinte in the famed 1977 TV miniseries Roots, Loretta Scott King in King, and other roles.
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