Actress
19 December 1924 to 28 January 2021
An American actress best known for her role in Sounder (1972), Tyson starred opposite Paul Winfield as the wife of a man sentenced to hard labour for a minor theft in 1930s Louisiana. She notably starred in Roots (1977) and Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), and received a BAFTA nomination for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974).
Read Cicely Tyson's Guardian obituary
