Cicely Tyson is the winner of this year’s Peabody Awards Career Achievement honour. The 95-year-old has been working in the entertainment industry for 70 years and has been nominated for numerous Emmys, winning two for 1974’s “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” and one in 1994 for “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All”.
She was also nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role in 1972’s “Sounder” and was handed an honorary Oscar in November 2018, among many other accolades.
Oprah Winfrey and Regina King were among those paying tribute to Tyson in the announcement video, with Winfrey saying: “Your integrity is impeccable, so I thank you for not just paving the way for me and every other Black woman who dared to have a career in
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