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Cicely Tyson: Biography

Cicely Tyson
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  • Birth Place: New York, NY
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 12/19/1933, Sagittarius
  • Profession: Actor; model
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Cicely Tyson: TV Guide News

  • SVU Exclusive: Oscar Nominee Cicely Tyson Will Guest | Today's News: Our Take | 2/20/2009

    Cicely Tyson will guest-star on an upcoming episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

    Tyson will play Ondine, a preacher's wife who works with her husband to relocate former child soldiers from Africa to the U.S. to help them escape their violent lives. Benson and Stabler meet Ondine when one of the children is brutally attacked. Ondine's husband has yet to be cast.

    Tyson is a two-time Emmy winner and earned an Oscar nomination for playing a sharecropper's wife in Sounder (1972). She'll next be seen in the Hallmark Channel movie Relative Stranger, which airs March 14.

    Watch full episodes of Law & Order: SVU in our Online Video Guide

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  • ERiq La Salle Returns to TV a Stranger | Today's News: Our Take | 5/22/2008
    Eriq La Salle will play a Relative Stranger in a Hallmark Channel original move slated for a Yuletide bow. The ER alum stars as a man who abandons his wife, kids and extended family, then returns years later when his father dies. He reunites with his estranged brood in the process. Cicely Tyson has been cast as La Salle's mom, while Michael Beach (Third Watch) plays his brother. — MWM read more
  • Catching Up with the Roots Cast | Today's News: Our Take | 9/17/2007
    Leslie Uggams is working on a Lena Horne project that's en route to Broadway.Louis Gossett Jr. is heading back to Broadway with a remake of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, also starring Phylicia Rashad and directed by Debbie Allen.John Amos, of course, is currently on Men in Trees: "Maybe next year the entire cast of that show will be here."Ben Vereen just finished an episode of Grey's Anatomy and wants to go back to Broadway with a gospel-themed project.LeVar Burton is on Day 10 of the shoot for Tempting Hyenas, a feature he's directing. The cast includes himself, Alfre Woodard, Lacey Chabert and Adrienne Barbeau.Cicely Tyson jokes, "I'm looking for a job," saying she may have to pull a Bette Davis and put an ad in the newspapers. "But I, for most of my career, have been unemployed," she says, before noting, "I actually have a number of things in the works."There's awkwardness as Cicely and LeVar get into some sort of debate about the state of today's long-form television and Roots' legacy. read more

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Cicely Tyson: Photos

Cicely Tyson, LeVar Burton, Olivia Cole, Todd Bridges, Leslie Uggams courtesy Maury Phillips/WireImage.com
Cicely Tyson, Kimberly Elise courtesy John Shearer/WireImage.com
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Cicely Tyson: TV Listings

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Cicely Tyson: Credits

Title Year Type
NAACP Image Awards (Appearing) 2009 TV Show Series
Relative Stranger (Actor - Pearl) 2009 TV Show Series
TV Land Awards: A Celebration of Classic TV (Appearing) 2007 TV Show Series
AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers (Appearing) 2006 TV Show Series
Idlewild (Actor - Mother Hopkins) 2006 Movie

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