Cicely Tyson

Was married to trumpeter Miles Davis (1981-1988). She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1750 Vine Street. Tyson co-founded the Dance Theatre of Harlem. By 1959, she had won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Diary of Anne Frank. 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". Her first movie was What a Woman! in 1943. In 1974 she won two Emmy Awards for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and became a star. Kennedy.

In 1972, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Sounder. Kennedy, Sr., father of President John F. In 1967, she appeared in The Comedians, and the following year, had a featured role in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. She is said to have had an affair with Joseph P. 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. Louis, Illinois, she is known to today's audiences as a large figure of comedians' scathing humor, but when she began her career, she was known as a voluptuous beauty. She was discovered by a photographer for Ebony magazine, and became a popular fashion model. Born Shirley Schrift in East St.

Her parents came from the island of Nevis, but Cicely was born and raised in Harlem, New York City. Shelley Winters (born August 18, 1920) is an American actress. Cicely Tyson (born December 19, 1933) is an award-winning African-American actress. 1952 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - A Place in the Sun. 1960 - Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role - The Diary of Anne Frank. 1966 - Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role - A Patch of Blue.

1973 - Nominated Best Actress in a Supporting Role - The Poseidon Adventure.