{"id":165659,"date":"2021-01-29T05:07:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T02:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/remembering-the-great-cicely-tyson-1924-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-01-29T05:07:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T02:07:21","slug":"remembering-the-great-cicely-tyson-1924-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/remembering-the-great-cicely-tyson-1924-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"#Remembering the Great Cicely Tyson (1924-2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Remembering the Great Cicely Tyson (1924-2021)<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n She was Kunta Kinte\u2019s mother. She brought Coretta Scott King and Harriet Tubman to vivid life in projects for TV. And for many, she will always be Miss Jane Pittman, the indomitable former slave who lives to 110, and in an indelible act of civil-rights defiance in the 1960s, takes a sip from a \u201cWhites Only\u201d drinking fountain.<\/p>\n

Cicely Tyson<\/a>, who died Thursday at a regal 96, brought dignity to any role she played, including an outrageous melodrama like How to Get Away with Murder<\/em><\/a> as the mother of a contemporary great, Viola Davis, earning five Emmy nominations to go with the two she received for 1974\u2019s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman<\/em>. (She also won a supporting actress Emmy for another historically driven TV project, 1994\u2019s The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Through her distinguished career, which includes an Oscar nomination for playing a sharecropper\u2019s resilient wife in 1972\u2019s Sounder<\/em>, Tyson famously refused to play roles that she considered demeaning or stereotypical, including prostitutes, addicts or maids \u2014 though she later app<\/a>eared in the hit film The Help <\/em>with Davis, which subverted many of those maid clich\u00e9s. She broke ground on TV as the first Black actress to star in a TV drama when she appeared on the gritty CBS drama East Side\/West Side<\/em> (1963-64) as the secretary of a social<\/a> worker played by George C. Scott.<\/p>\n

Always active and working well past the age many would have retired, Tyson won a 2013 Tony Award in The Trip<\/a> to Bountiful<\/em>, reprising the role of Carrie Watts in a film for Lifetime. She received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2015, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and in 2018 was the first Black actress to receive an honorary Academy Award.<\/p>\n

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Her many TV credits include the original Roots<\/a>, <\/em>the miniseries<\/a> King<\/em> and portrayed a renowned real-life educator in The Marva Collins Story<\/em>, all adding Emmy nominations to her resum\u00e9. She starred as a civil-rights activist and lawyer in NBC\u2019s Sweet Justice<\/em> (1994-95), getting yet another of her 15 Emmy nominations, and more recently appeared in Netflix\u2019s House of Cards <\/em><\/a>and OWN\u2019s Cherish the Day<\/em> in 2020.<\/p>\n

Just this month, her memoir Just As I Am<\/em> was published and, in a candid New York Times interview to promote the book, she declared, \u201cI\u2019m not scared of death. I don\u2019t know what it is. How could I be afraid of something I don\u2019t know anything about? \u2026 I\u2019m not in a hurry to go either! I take it a day at a time \u2026 and I\u2019m grateful for every day that God gives me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her advice for the younger generation: \u201cIt\u2019s simple. I try always to be true to myself. I learned from my mom: \u2018Don\u2019t lie ever, no matter how bad it is. Don\u2019t lie to me ever, OK? You will be happier that you told the truth.\u2019 That has stayed with me, and it will stay with me for as long as I\u2019m lucky enough to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cicely Tyson\u2019s truth shone through in everything she did. A bountiful trip it was, and we\u2019re lucky to have been along for the ride.<\/p>\n

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