The Corn Is Green
(Photo by The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)
UNITED STATES – JULY 01: Cicely Tyson and the cast of The Corn is Green (Photo by The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)
UNITED STATES – JULY 01: Cicely Tyson and cast of The Corn is Green (Photo by The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)
UNITED STATES – JULY 01: Cicely Tyson (Photo by The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)
UNITED STATES – JULY 01: Cicely Tyson (Photo by The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)
The Gin Game
LEGENDARY, POWERFUL, AND UNDENIABLY UNFORGETTABLE.
Two-time Tony Award® winner James Earl Jones squares off with three-time Emmy® and Tony Award® winner Cicely Tyson in The Gin Game. This fall marks their first Broadway rematch in nearly 50 years, as D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning stunner returns to the John Golden Theatre, the same place where it first astounded audiences in 1977 by raising an ordinary pastime between acquaintances to explosive and shockingly real stakes.
James Earl Jones and Ms. Tyson in the Broadway revival of “The Gin Game.” Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
JOAN MARCUS (Photos)
NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 14: James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson during the Broadway Opening Night performance Curtain Call for ‘The Gin Game‘ at the John Golden Theatre on October 14, 2015, in New York City. (Photo by Walter McBride/WireImage)
NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 14: James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, and director Leonard Foglia during the Broadway Opening Night performance Curtain Call for ‘The Gin Game‘ at the John Golden Theatre on October 14, 2015, in New York City. (Photo by Walter McBride/WireImage)
The Trip to Bountiful (2014) {FILM}
Director: Michael Wilson
Writers: Horton Foote (based on his play), Horton Foote (teleplay)
Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams, Blair Underwood, Keke Palmer
Tyson was nominated for two Emmys for her role in the 2014 adaptation of “The Trip to Bountiful.” Credit…Bob Mahoney/Lifetime
“What made her great is her tenacity, her persistence, her drive, her love of life. She lived life, she lived life out loud, [and] she did it boldly.” That is how Blair Underwood remembers the late Cicely Tyson.
ET’s Kevin Frazier chatted with the 2020 Tony nominee about working with the icon, who died on Thursday at the age of 96, and the lesson he learned from her.
“Her whole sense of life was about taking a bite out of it, making a statement, being bold and being unapologetic,” Underwood, 56, continued. “And that’s one of the things I learned from her.”
“My biggest lesson from her was, love life, take care of yourself,” he added. “She was a vegan since the 1960s, around the time she was married to Miles Davis, and she said, ‘Just be careful what you put inside your body. You’ll last longer.’ So I learned a lot from her about the craft, the art of acting, the work, but also how to live life, how to walk through life.” – Blair Underwood
BOSTON, MA – NOVEMBER 21: (L-R) Vanessa Williams, Cicely Tyson, and Blair Underwood take a bow at the opening night performance of “The Trip to Bountiful” as part of the ArtsEmerson The World on Stage series at the Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College on November 21, 2014, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images)
BOSTON, MA – NOVEMBER 21: (L-R) Vanessa Williams, Cicely Tyson, and Blair Underwood are joined by the cast to take a bow at the opening night performance of “The Trip to Bountiful” as part of the ArtsEmerson The World on Stage series at the Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College on November 21, 2014, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images)
How To Get Away With Murder
We are privileged to have had the legendary Miss Cicely Tyson lend her talent and grace to How to Get Away with Murder. She brought her whole heart to her role as Ophelia Harkness, just as she did to everyone she met in life. Her HTGAWM family will miss her terribly and cherish every day we were in the presence of such a legend.
HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER – “Mama’s Here Now” – Annalise is wracked with guilt and turns to an unlikely source for help. Meanwhile, Bonnie must step up and represent a new client accused of rape, on “How to Get Away with Murder,” THURSDAY FEBRUARY 19 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the Walt Disney Television via Getty Images Television Network. (Photo by Mitchell Haaseth/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images via Getty Images)
Annalise (Viola Davis) has a heart-to-heart with her mother (Cicely Tyson).
HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER – “Anna Mae” – Walt Disney Television via Getty Images Television Network. (Photo by Nicole Wilder/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images)
CICELY TYSON
HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER – “Anna Mae” – (Photo by Nicole Wilder/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images)
CICELY TYSON
“You were everything to me! You made me feel loved and seen and valued in a world where there is still a cloak of invisibility for us dark chocolate girls. You gave me permission to dream,” – Viola Davis
The Help
In Behind the Lens, Cicely Tyson said of this film:
“I don’t think there are any small roles. And I’ll tell you something when I did ‘The Help,’ it was two seconds long. When I read a script, and I say this all the time, either my skin tingles or my stomach churns. When my stomach churns, I know it is something I cannot touch. I can’t do it. When I get so excited, my skin [tingles], I can’t wait, I can’t wait, I can’t wait! Okay?
So when I got the role of Constantine in ‘The Help,’ my agent was somewhat upset because he wanted me to do one of the other leading roles. I said, ‘No no no no no! There’s something very special in this woman and the relationship.’ See, that’s what I got. And when I get that, I know I can try to give it to you, and you will feel the same way that I do. And so I did it and went on about my business. And then all of a sudden I get these calls. ‘My God! That role!’”
Cicely Tyson and Lila Rogers – The Help.
Emma Stone
