Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson (born December 19, 1933) is an award-winning African-American actress, who tried to shave 9 years off her age, claiming 1942 as her year of birth in the pre-Internet age. Her devoutly Christian parents came from the island of Nevis in the West Indies, but Cicely was born and raised in Harlem, New York. She was discovered by a photographer for Ebony magazine, and became a popular fashion model. 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 long-running soap opera The Guiding Light.

Filmography

• Carib Gold (1957)
• Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
• The Last Angry Man (1959)
• A Man Called Adam (1966)
• The Comedians (1967)
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
• Sounder (1972)
• The River Niger (1976)
• The Blue Bird (1976)
• A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1978)
• ' (1979)
• Bustin' Loose (1981)
• Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
• Flight to Freedom (1995) (documentary)
• Hoodlum (1997)
• The Double Dutch Divas! (2001) (short subject)
• Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
• Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)