Cicely Tyson, Acting Legend and Stereotype-Shattering Icon, Dead at 96 Getty Images
The legendary Cicely Tyson has died at 96.
Tyson died Thursday, as reported by The Wrap and confirmed by her longtime manager Larry Thompson in a statement from her family that read, With a heavy heart, the family of Miss Cicely Tyson announces her peaceful transition this afternoon. At this time, please allow the family their privacy.
No cause or other details of her passing were provided.
For decades, Tyson had been an icon in entertainment, having achieved success onstage, on TV, and in the movies, and having embraced her status as a role model for Black women in an industry notoriously unwelcoming to them.