Cicely Tyson, groundbreaking award-winning actor, dead at 96
Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” died Thursday at age 96. The post Cicely Tyson, groundbreaking award-winning actor, dead at 96 appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.

Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” died Thursday at age 96.
The post Cicely Tyson, groundbreaking award-winning actor, dead at 96 appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.