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In addition to her acclaimed work in film and TV projects like
Sounder and
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Tyson has long been hailed as a groundbreaking performer who broke barriers and opened doors for Black actors and actresses. She scored the first-ever recurring role for a Black woman in a drama series on
East Side/West Side in 1963, and she became the first Black woman to receive an honorary Oscar in 2018.
Tyson s former costars, including Viola Davis and LeVar Burton, were some of the first to share their tributes to the actress. Cicely Tyson tributes Credit: Ali Goldstein/Getty Images; Levar Burton/twitter