Cicely L. Tyson was born on 19th December 1924, in Harlem, New York City USA, to parents who had migrated from Nevis in the West Indies. Cicely has starred on the stage, the big screen and on TV since debuting in the early ’50s. She has been the contender for 12 Emmy awards in her career, out of which she has won two. Overall, Cicely has appeared in more than 30 films, and over 60 TV productions – her name is known and very much respected in Hollywood..
So just how rich is Cicely L. Tyson? Sources estimate that Cicely’s net worth is over $10 million, accumulated during a career spanning well over 60 years in the entertainment industry.
Cicely L. Tyson Net Worth $10 Million
In her early life, Cicely was brought up in Harlem in a middle-class family. She was discovered by Ebony magazine in the late ’40s, and featured as a model for a number of years which was a solid base to her net worth, until beginning her acting career in 1951 in the “Frontiers of Faith” NBC TV series. Her first movie appearance was in “Carib Gold” in 1956, but she continued to star mostly in TV productions, in fact in at least one every year until the early 2000s. Some of her more notable roles were in “The Naked City” and “East Side/West Side” in 1963-64, “I-Spy”(1965-66), “The FBI”(1968-69), and “Gunsmoke”, “Mission: Impossible” and “The Cosby Show” during the early ’70s. All these appearance kept her net worth ticking over very nicely.
Meantime, in 1972 she had been nominated for an Oscar, Best Actress for her role in the film “Sounder”, and actually won three other awards for the role, including from the National Society of Film Critics. Other significant film roles over the years have included in “Concorde…Airport 79”(1979), “Hoodlum”(1997), “Diary of a Mad Black Woman”(2005 – nominations for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role), and “The Help”(2011 – numerous nominations for Best Ensemble Performance). All these performances significantly raised her net worth.
In 1974, Cicelty was nominated for and won an Emmy Award for Actress of the Year for her title role in the TV production “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman”, as well as being nominated for a BAFTA. She continued to appear in TV productions, and some of the more memorable were in the outstanding series “Roots”(1977), “King”(as Coretta King – 1978), “Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story”(1986 – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress), “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All”(1994 – Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporter Actress), “Mama Flora’s Family”(1998 – NAACP Award for Outstanding Actress), and “The Trip to Bountiful”(2014 – NAACP Award for Outstanding Actress). One can well imagine how her net worth steadily appreciated with these consistent appearances.
Further recognitions of Cicely L. Tyson’s efforts have been the awarding of an honorary degree from the all-male Morehouse College in 2009, and a Doctorate in Humane Letter from the University of Columbia.in 2014
In her personal life, Cicely Tyson married trumpeter Miles Davis in 1981, but they divorced in 1988, and she has never remarried.
