Cicely Tyson

Highest Rated:
100% The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
Lowest Rated:
12% Alex Cross (2012)
Birthday:
Dec 19, 1933
Birthplace:
New York, New York, USA
Bio:
One of America's most respected dramatic actresses, Cicely Tyson has worked steadily as a television, film, and stage actress since making her stage debut in a Harlem YMCA production of Dark of the Moon in the 1950s. The daughter of Caribbean immigrants, Tyson was raised in Harlem. After working as…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 12% - 100%
Number of Movies: 55
Box Office Since 2001: $422.7M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 23% The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
  • Mama Kay
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2012 12% Alex Cross
  • Nana Mama
$25.9M
2011 76% The Help
  • Lila Rogers
$169.7M
2010 26% Why Did I Get Married Too
  • Ola
$48.5M
2009 King
  • Actor
$0.2M
2009 Relative Stranger
  • Actor
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2008 Marva Collins Story
  • Actor
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2007 Rwanda Rising
  • Actor
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2007 63% Reign Over Me
  • Actor
$19.7M
2006 26% Madea's Family Reunion
  • Myrtle
$63.2M
2006 Fat Rose and Squeaky
  • Actor
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2006 48% Idlewild
  • Mother Hopkins
$12.5M
2005 15% Diary of a Mad Black Woman
  • Myrtle
$50.4M
2005 53% Because of Winn-Dixie
  • Gloria Dump
$32.6M
2003 Neighbors
  • Actor
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2002 The Rosa Parks Story
  • Leona McCauley
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2001 Jewel
  • Cathedral
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1999 A Lesson Before Dying
  • Tante Lou
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1998 Mama Flora's Family
  • Flora
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1998 Always Outnumbered
  • Luvia
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1997 Riot In The Streets
  • Maggie
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1997 45% Hoodlum
  • (Queen) Stephanie St. Clair
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1997 Ms. Scrooge
  • Actor
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1997 Blessed Assurance (The Price of Heaven)
  • Actor
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1996 The Road To Galveston
  • Actor
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1995 50% The Grass Harp
  • Actor
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1995 33% Jefferson in Paris
  • Actor
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1995 Blessed Assurance
  • Vesta
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1994 Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
  • Castalia
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1994 Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells
  • Actor
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1992 Duplicates
  • Dr. Randolph
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1991 83% Fried Green Tomatoes
  • Sipsey
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1990 Heat Wave
  • Ruthana Richardson
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1990 Kid Who Loved Christmas
  • Actor
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1989 The Women of Brewster Place
  • Mrs. Browne
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1986 Acceptable Risks
  • Janet Framm
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1986 Samaritan - The Mitch Snyder Story
  • Muriel
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1981 Bustin' Loose
  • Director
  • Vivian Perry
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1981 The Marva Collins Story
  • Marva Collins
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1979 20% The Concorde... Airport '79
  • Elaine
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1978 King
  • Actor
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1978 A Woman Called Moses
  • Actor
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1977 A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
  • Sweets
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1977 Wilma
  • Actor
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1976 The River Niger
  • Mattie Williams
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1976 Just An Old Sweet Song
  • Priscilla Simmons
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1976 The Blue Bird
  • Cat
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1974 Free to Be...You and Me
  • Actor
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1974 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
  • Jane Pittman
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1972 88% Sounder
  • Rebecca Morgan
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1968 100% The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  • Portia
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1967 27% The Comedians
  • Marie Therese
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1966 A Man Called Adam
  • Claudia Ferguson
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1959 The Last Angry Man
  • Girl Left on Porch
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1959 Odds Against Tomorrow
  • Fra
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Quotes from Cicely Tyson's Characters

    1. Sipsey: It's all right, honey. Let her go. Let her go. You know, Miss Ruth was a lady. And a lady always knows when to leave.
    From Fried Green Tomatoes. Submitted by Olivia B (20 months ago)
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