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Cicely Tyson

Cicely L. Tyson is an American actress and former fashion model whose acting career has spanned more than six decades. She is best known for playing strong African-American women on screen and stage. Tyson is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards, four Black Reel Awards, one Screen Actor Guild Award, and one Tony Award.

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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT · S10, E17

Hell

A young girl, Miriam Burdett (guest star Julyza Commodore), is found in an alley, with her throat cut and evidence of repeated rape and physical abuse. When asked to write who attacked her, because of her inability to speak, she draws a picture of the Devil. When Detective Munch (Richard Belzer) investigates, he finds several reports of a local priest, Father Theo Burdett (guest star Robert Wisdom), who neighbors claim is a devil worshipper. Also starring: Richard Belzer (Detective John Munch), Dann Florek (Captain Donald Cragen), Ice-T (Detective Odafin Tutuola), Michaela McManus (A.D.A Kim Greylek), Stephanie March (ADA Alexandra Cabot), Tamara Tunie (Dr. Melinda Warner), and B.D. Wong (Dr. George Huang).
MADAM SECRETARY · S6, E10

Leaving the Station

President Elizabeth McCord kicks off a new landmark political initiative with help from members of the World Cup Champion U.S. Women's Soccer team, while Flo Avery (Cicely Tyson), who was born the day women were granted the right to vote, looks on. Opposing the initiative is Senator Amy Ross (Tyne Daley) from Ohio. Also, the McCords overcome last-minute obstacles to pull off a spectacular family celebration with a reunion of familiar faces, that includes a performance by Peter Frampton.
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE · S4, E24

Death Squad

Jim Phelps leads the IMF to aid one of its own members when Barney is arrested and marked for execution by a sadistic police chief (guest star Pernell Roberts).
TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL · S6, E21

Living The Rest Of My Life

Seventy-year-old Abigail Peabody-Jackson (Tyson) is living her golden years in the house of her immature son and his wife, spending most of her days watching television and taking care of the family. When the angels introduce her to the fun loving residents of a wonderful retirement community, Abigail is pleasantly surprised and decides that it's time to cut the cord and start taking care of herself. However, when she approaches her son about the idea and asks that he return her private checkbook that he has been holding for her, he is suspiciously reluctant to let his mother go to the retirement community. Now it's up to Abigail to confront her worst fears about her only child and see that her glory days have only just begun.
I SPY · S1, E1

So Long, Patrick Henry

An expatriate American (Ivan Dixon) living in Africa must regain his citizenship before enemy agents kill him.