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Afro-American Hollywood icon, he never stopped working for six decades. Actress Cicely Tyson passed away on January 28, 2021, at the age of 96, leaving behind a long career in film and television, as Larry Thompson, her representative, has announced. This week her memoirs had just been published. “You made me feel loved, seen and valued in a world where there is still a cloak of invisibility for us dark chocolate girls. You gave me permission to dream,” said Viola Davis, who played her daughter in “How to Defend a Murderer.” “. 

Born in Harlem, New York, on December 19, 1924, Cicely Tyson was the daughter of a carpenter and a homemaker. As a child, a fashion editor for “Ebony” magazine offered her a contract as a model. In 1957 she became an actress, with roles in alternative productions on the off-Broadway circuit.

After several minor film roles, she stands out as Portia, the doctor’s daughter in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , a successful adaptation of the novel by  Carson McCullers .

Cicely Tyson  was an Oscar nominee in 1973 for  Sounder , where she shined as the wife of a wrongfully imprisoned farmer during the Great Depression. She didn’t win, but in 2019 the Academy gave her her honorary for her entire career ensemble. “You have to have faith and trust, believe in what you do. Mom, I know you didn’t want me to dedicate myself to this, but I did it and here is the Oscar. I feel that it is a culmination,” she declared upon receiving it.

Married in 1981 to the well-known jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, the couple divorced in 1988. She lavished herself on the screen until the end of her career, in titles such as  Fried Green Tomatoes ,  The Road to Galveston ,  The Last Survivor ,  Maids and Ladies (The Help) ,  In the mind of the murderer  and  Betrayal . She refused to be in movies that portrayed African-Americans negatively.

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