For her titular role in
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Tyson won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress, an Emmy Award for Actress of the Year, and she was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. 04
Among the many awards the miniseries
Roots received, Tyson was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Series. This same year, she was also inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. 05
In the 1978 miniseries
King, Tyson portrayed Coretta Scott King and was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series.
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As fortune would have it, Cicely did end up becoming a wildly successful star who undoubtedly made her mother proud.
Interestingly, despite making a career in showbiz, Cicely was a very shy child who sucked her thumb for 12 years. She has a sixth sense : Cicely was promoting her newly released memoir, Just As I Am, when she discussed the unusual prediction a woman made about her life when she was just a baby
Prediction fulfilled: As fortune would have it, Cicely did end up becoming a wildly successful star who undoubtedly made her mother proud As a child, I was very shy. I stuck this thumb for twelve years. I was an observer. I would sit at the table and observe everything that was said and or done, and so I listened and I learned why people said and did the things that they did, she said.
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