Tony and Emmy award winning actor Cicely Tyson dead at 96

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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 in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, died Thursday at age 96.



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