Though she lived nearly 100 years, Tyson hid her real age for decades. Cicely Tyson photographed in 1976 in New York City | Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Cicely Tyson did not get her first big break ...

Tyson was born on Dec. 19 1924 in East Harlem. She was the youngest of three children and her parents were immigrants from the Caribbean Island of Nevis. After graduating high school, Tyson became ...

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Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts ...

Cicely logged 96 years, but her half-life will visit new centuries, I’m sure. In “Sounder” Cicely plays Rebecca, the mom on a farm in the South with her husband Nathan, and her three kids.

Tyson’s parents moved from the island of Nevis in the Caribbean to New York, where Cicely (her name was spelled early on as Cecily and Sicely) was born in 1924, the youngest of three children.