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  Lois Smith made history on Sunday night by becoming the oldest performer to win a Tony Award for acting. The 90-year-old took home the prize for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Matthew López’s The Inheritance. “I love the processes of the live theatre,” Smith began her acceptance speech. “I first worked on The Inheritance in a workshop where Matthew López was finishing a play about the AIDS plague, and it was partly based on E.M. Forster’s book Howards End, which had been

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  A Man Called Adam review – Sammy Davis Jr swings in earnest race-issue drama

  A Man Called Adam review – Sammy Davis Jr swings in earnest race-issue drama. Histrionic 1966 picture about a struggling musician has worthy ambitions but is deeply unhip

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  Cicely Tyson obituary

  Cicely Tyson obituary. Pioneering actor who received an Oscar nomination for her performance in the 1972 film Sounder

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  Cicely Tyson’s Roots co-star LeVar Burton pays vibrant tribute to ‘regal’ actor

  ‘She possessed a nobility of character and carriage that could, in equal turns, enchant and intimidate’

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  'Incredible and inspirational': Cicely Tyson remembered by Vanessa Williams

  'Incredible and inspirational': Cicely Tyson remembered by Vanessa Williams. Tyson, who has died aged 96, was the talk of Broadway in 2013 when she was in The Trip to Bountiful. Her co-star pays tribute to a calming mentor with an uproarious sense of humour

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  Viola Davis pays tribute to How To Get Away with Murder co-star Cicely Tyson

  "You were everything to me!"

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  Cicely Tyson, award-winning American actress noted for playing strong characters – obituary

  Cicely Tyson, who has died aged 96, was an American actress who received an Oscar nomination for her role as the family matriarch Rebecca in the 1972 Depression-era film Sounder; she was also nominated for a Bafta and won two Emmys for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), a TV film in which she played a woman born into slavery, but who a century later becomes part of the civil rights movement. At a time when black actresses were often cast in what Cicely Tyson called “a powerless suppo

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  Cicely Tyson: Viola Davis and Barack Obama lead tributes to Emmy-winning actor

  Award-winning actor has died aged 96

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  Cicely Tyson, trailblazing screen icon, has died at 96

  Her manager confirmed the sad news

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  Barack Obama leads tributes to Hollywood pioneer Cicely Tyson

  Barack Obama has lead the tributes to Hollywood trailblazer Cicely Tyson saying she “left a mark on the world that few will ever match”. Tyson died peacefully on Thursday, Larry Thompson, her manager of over 40 years, said in a statement. Mr Obama honoured civil rights activist Tyson with the highest civilian honour in the US, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 2016, and praised her on and off-screen legacy.

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