Roots or aging over 90 years for her double Emmy Award-winning turn in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Cicely Tyson did more than simply play a character.
She became the women she portrayed. That was her plan. “[When preparing for a role], it’s like meeting a person for the first time and wanting to know who they are,” she once said. “You want to know them as deeply as you can.
You dig in order to get the substance. When I go on a set, I have the character in the palm of my hand.”By Hollywood standards, Tyson got a late start.
In reality, she was in her 20s when she embarked on her creative path and as she would prove, the timing was just right. The daughter of Caribbean immigrants, she grew up in Harlem and began her career as.
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