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Post by spiderwort on Dec 22, 2018 0:45:39 GMT
This post has been revised and updated.
Cicely Tyson was born on December 18, 1924 in Harlem, New York City.
In 1957, she began acting in off-Broadway productions. She had small roles in feature films before she was cast as Portia in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968). Four years later, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her wonderful performance in Sounder (1972).
Two years later she portrayed a 110-year-old former slave in the television film, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), for which she earned two Emmy Awards.
She received a total of 12 Emmy nominations, including one for the miniseries Roots (1977) -
- and won another Emmy for The Oldest Living Graduate Tells All (1994).
She has continued to work in television and films for decades, and is still going strong today. Her other film credits include Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
and The Help (2011)
She has also continued to work on Broadway and in 2013, at the age of 89, starred in A Trip to Bountiful with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Vanessa Williams.
She's a titan, a brilliant actress, and a woman who has dedicated herself to doing good in the world.
Happy Birthday, Cicely Tyson. Your enduring talent is an inspiration.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 22, 2018 1:19:16 GMT
I love Cicely Tyson. She's so great. Thanks for the celebration, spiderwort. 
You mentioned a story by Carson McCullers and I know you like literature. Do you read any McCullers? I think I read just about all her books when I was younger, and short stories, bits and pieces. I became quite obsessed for a time. She was a fascinating person to me. I could happily read them all again.
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Post by spiderwort on Dec 22, 2018 2:34:24 GMT
I love Cicely Tyson. She's so great. Thanks for the celebration, spiderwort. You're welcome, petrolino. She deserves it. And no, as odd as it seems, I've never read Carson McCullers - always meant to, just never got around it. I have read the play adaptation of her novel, "The Member of the Wedding," but I've never read any of her written words. I've often been told that she's really wonderful. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to it. But as the saying goes, too many books, so little time. And never in my life was that more true.  |
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Post by petrolino on Dec 22, 2018 2:41:46 GMT
I love Cicely Tyson. She's so great. Thanks for the celebration, spiderwort. You're welcome, petrolino. She deserves it. And no, as odd as it seems, I've never read Carson McCullers - always meant to, just never got around it. I have read the play adaptation of her novel, "The Member of the Wedding," but I've never read any of her written words. I've often been told that she's really wonderful. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to it. But as the saying goes, too many books, so little time. And never in my life was that more true.
I take your position. Cicely Tyson has been awarded near every honour America can bestow and deservedly so.
I needed to check Carson McCullers out for a number of reasons, though chiefly her prose. My 2 all-time favourite songwriters (band is Throwing Muses) are 2 half-sisters from Atlanta, Georgia (Kristin Hersh) & Newport, Rhode Island (Tanya Donelly). Carson McCullers was from Columbus, Georgia.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 22, 2018 5:13:47 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Dec 22, 2018 14:50:32 GMT
Happy Birthday indeed!!   Odds Against Tomorrow 1959  With a famous trumpeteer |
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Post by spiderwort on Dec 18, 2019 17:40:27 GMT
Happy 95th Birthday to the amazing Cicely Tyson, still working hard today. Thanks for the wonderful memories, Ms. Tyson.
Here, in her multi-Emmy nominated role in How to Get Away with Murder, which she will continue into next year and perhaps longer.
What a titan!
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Post by Archelaus on Dec 18, 2019 18:31:23 GMT
Happy birthday to a screen and television legend.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 18, 2019 19:06:57 GMT
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