Cicely Tyson

Was married to trumpeter Miles Davis (1981-1988). She has been married to actors Timothy Hutton and Arliss Howard. Tyson co-founded the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Other films include Made in Heaven, Everybody Wins, The Sheltering Sky, Leap of Faith, Black Widow, Wilder Napalm and A Dangerous Woman. Other acclaimed television roles included Roots, King, in which she played Coretta Scott King, The Marva Collins Story, When No One Would Listen and Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (for which she won another Emmy). She is going to be in the movie "Because of Winn-Dixie". She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Terms of Endearment in 1984 and Best Actress for Shadowlands in 1993. In 1974 she won two Emmy Awards for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and became a star. In 1982 she starred opposite Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 1972, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Sounder. She got her first starring role in Urban Cowboy in 1980, opposite John Travolta. In 1967, she appeared in The Comedians, and the following year, had a featured role in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Her first acting role was as Princess Diana's younger sister Drusilla (Wonder Girl) in the Wonder Woman television series. Her first film was an uncredited role in Carib Gold in 1957, but she went on to do television - the celebrated series East Side/West Side and the soap opera Guiding Light. With time on her hands to think about her life, she decided that, if she recovered, she would move to California and become an actress. She was discovered by a photographer for Ebony magazine, and became a popular fashion model. After returning to the United States, she was involved in an automobile accident which left her temporarily paralyzed and blind in one eye.

Her parents came from the island of Nevis, but Cicely was born and raised in Harlem, New York City. Born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, she spent several years in Israel, and served in the Israeli Armed Forces. Cicely Tyson (born December 19, 1933) is an award-winning African-American actress. Debra Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an American actress.