Bella Hadid on Thursday joined thousands and thousands of individuals to pay tribute to Cicely Tyson who died on Thursday at age 96.
Tyson specialised in portraying sturdy Black ladies caught up in life’s struggles throughout a 60-year profession that earned her three Emmys and a Tony Award.
Taking to her Instagram tales, Bella shared journalist and writer Elaine Welteroth’s touching tribute with a damaged coronary heart emoji. Tyson had lately accomplished a memoir, “Simply As I Am,” which was launched simply this week.
Tyson’s most-lauded performances got here in historic works such because the 1972 film “Sounder” through which she performed a Louisiana sharecropper’s spouse. That movie earned Tyson her solely Academy Award nomination, however she obtained an honorary Oscar in November 2018.