Loretta Swit

. Was married to trumpeter Miles Davis (1981-1988). It is said that Jim Henson found in her the inspiration for the Muppet character "Miss Piggy.". Tyson co-founded the Dance Theatre of Harlem. In 1981 Swit played the Cagney role in the movie pilot for the television series Cagney & Lacey. 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". Starting in 1972, she played the character of Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the television series M*A*S*H. In 1974 she won two Emmy Awards for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and became a star.

Loretta Swit (born on November 4, 1937 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA) is an actor. In 1972, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Sounder. In 1967, she appeared in The Comedians, and the following year, had a featured role in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. 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. She was discovered by a photographer for Ebony magazine, and became a popular fashion model.

Her parents came from the island of Nevis, but Cicely was born and raised in Harlem, New York City. Cicely Tyson (born December 19, 1933) is an award-winning African-American actress.