Award-winning actress Cicely Tyson, 96, known for her many roles over the years, has died. She is perhaps best known for her Emmy-winning performance in the TV movie, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, where she went from a young woman to an extremely old one, only slightly older than she was when the time she passed.
Tyson also had an extensive stage career, winning a Tony along the way.
Her death was announced by her manager.
Two days ago, she had released a memoir.
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Tyson was born December 19, 1924, in New York to William and Theodosia Tyson. Early on, she gravitated toward performing, playing piano and reciting in her family's church when she was a child. She later attended New York University.
Tyson said she was "the bane of her mother's existence" because she couldn't keep still when she was little.
"I was always going, I was always trying to find things, learn things, make things," she told Harvey. "So I drove her crazy."
As an adult, Tyson began her entertainment career as a model when she was discovered by a fashion editor at Ebony magazine in the 1950s. She had substantial theater parts in the early part of the decade and was on television regularly in guest-starring roles by the mid-1960s.
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