Cicely Tyson, nine-time Broadway veteran, a Tony winner at age 88 for The Trip to Bountiful, was best known as “an actress whose electrifying portrayals of resilient Black women…brought some of the first ennobling portrayals of African Americans to a vast television audience,” from “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” to portrayals of Coretta Scott King and Harriet Tubman
She just published a memoir: Just as I Am: A Memoir
Cicely Tyson, 96, is a nine-time veteran of Broadway, most recently in The Trip to Bountiful in 2013 and The Gin Game in 2016
Cicely Tyson, 96, nine-time Broadway veteran, a Tony winner at age 88 for The Trip to Bountiful, was best known as “an actress whose electrifying portrayals of resilient Black women…brought some of the first ennobling portrayals of African Americans to a vast television audience,” from “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” to portrayals of Coretta Scott King and Harriet Tubman
Louis Gossett as Willie Nurse and Cicely Tyson as Myrna Jessup in Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights 1968
The Gin Game, 2015
The Trip to Bountiful, 2013
Cicely Tyson and Condola Rashad
Lead actress Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful
