Award-winning Actress Cicely Tyson has died. Actress Cicely Tyson, who specialised in portraying strong Black women caught up in life’s struggles during a 60-year career that earned her three Emmys and a Tony Award, died on Thursday at age 96, her manager said in a statement.

No cause of death was given. Tyson had recently completed a memoir, “Just As I Am,” which was released just this week.

Tyson’s most-lauded performances came in historical works such as the 1972 movie “Sounder” in which she played a Louisiana sharecropper’s wife. That film earned Tyson her only Academy Award nomination, but she received an honorary Oscar in November 2018.

She also won two Emmys for the same TV movie, “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” – one for best actress in a miniseries or movie and one for an actress of the year. The 1974 movie covered a woman’s life from slavery to the 1960s.

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Tyson picked up another Emmy 20 years later for “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.” Her nine other Emmy nominations included playing Binta, the mother of the slave Kunta Kinte in the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries “Roots,” the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s wife, Coretta, in “King,” and the inspirational educator in “The Marva Collins Story.

Her manager, Larry Thompson, said in a statement that Tyson “thought of her new memoir as a Christmas tree decorated with all the ornaments of her personal and professional life.”

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