Cicely Tyson

People traveled across the country and stood in a block-long line to pay respects to Cicely Tyson at a public viewing Monday.

People have traveled across the country and stood in a block-long line to pay respects to Cicely Tyson at a public viewing

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The actor who broke barriers as a Black performer was known for films like “Sounder” and her Tony-winning performance in the musical “The Trip to Bountiful.”

Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who earned an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” won a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” has died

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Cicely Tyson received her first and only Oscar nomination in 1972. It was for best actress for her work in “Sounder,” which she thinks of as her first major role. She wasn’t called to the stage that year — Liza Minnelli was for “Cabaret” — but now 45 years later, Tyson is finally getting her Oscar.

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