- Geboren am
- Verstorben28. Januar 2021 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA (nicht bekannt gegeben)
- GeburtsnameCecily Louise Tyson
- Größe1,61 m
- Cicely Tyson wurde am 19 Dezember 1924 in Harlem, New York City, New York, USA geboren. Sie war Schauspielerin und Produzentin, bekannt für The Help (2011), Das verrückte Tagebuch (2005) und Grüne Tomaten (1991). Sie war mit Miles Davis und Kenneth Franklin verheiratet. Sie starb am 28 Januar 2021 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- EhepartnerMiles Davis(26. November 1981 - 29. April 1988) (geschieden)Kenneth Franklin(27. Dezember 1942 - 17. Oktober 1956) (geschieden, 1 Kind)
- KinderJoan
- ElternWilliam TysonTheodosiaTheodosia Tyson
- VerwandteCathy Tyson(Niece or Nephew)Louis Farrakhan(Cousin)Emily Tyson(Sibling)Melrose Tyson(Sibling)Vince Wilburn Jr.(Niece or Nephew)
- Frequently played strong willed women.
- Often played characters way younger than her actual age
- West Indian lilt
- She was married to Miles Davis by Andrew Young in the home of Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby was the best man, and gave away the bride.
- Was the first-African American actress to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Television Movie for her performance in Die Geschichte der Jane Pittman (1974).
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on August 21, 1997.
- When Ms. Tyson won a Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for "The Trip to Bountiful" in 2013, she became the oldest person ever to win an acting Tony.
- Was one of 11 African-American actresses to be nominated for the Best Actress Oscar. The others in chronological order are: Dorothy Dandridge, Diana Ross, Diahann Carroll, Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Gabourey Sidibe, Viola Davis, Quvenzhané Wallis and Cynthia Erivo.
- [on her commitment to choose only positive images] Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -- what make you go beyond the norm. The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result, I found myself working only every two or three years.
- One lady told me that before she saw Das Jahr ohne Vater (1972), she didn't believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people.
- [of 'trances' she seems to occupy to prepare for roles] I'm looking inside myself. Inside of me is where this character is coming from, and I was feeling a sense of who this woman can be... I am the character [on set] until I go home.
- How do you project a character if you don't have a sense of where she is from? I've always just gotten on a plane to go to the area to get a sense of what it is like, to smell it, feel the earth, hear people talk, go to the marketplaces. Being there [in Texas] I understood very clearly why my character [Carrie Watts in "The Trip to Bountiful"] longed to return because I was myself mesmerized by the beauty of the place and the tender enfolding of the gulf wind.
- Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have.
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