Cicely Tyson, groundbreaking award-winning actress, dead at 96

Cicely Tyson, groundbreaking award-winning actress, dead at 96

Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper?s wife in ?Sounder,? a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers? hearts in ?The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,? died Thursday at age 96.

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