She Participated In Many Movies With Different Roles
Next one in the list of facts about Maya Angelou is that she took part in lots of films in different roles. It's still deliciously surprising to learn that Angelou was also a filmmaker, even if towards the end of her career there were very few art genres she hadn't engaged in (which is how she ended up with both a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize nomination and three Grammy victories). She debuted in 1957's "Calypso Heat Wave" as Can actress and singer before switching to screenwriting for the romantic drama Georgia, Georgia which is about an African American singer who falls in love while on tour in Stockholm, and finally to directing with 1998's Down in the Delta, starring Alfre Woodard and Wesley Snipes.
Although Angelou wrote several autobiographies, her first, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," published in 1969, is still perhaps the one that is most well-known. A number of friends, notably novelist James Baldwin, pushed Angelou to write a work of narrative literature, and the result is a great masterpiece. The story of trauma, rebirth, and progress was turned into a made-for-television movie by Angelou and was helmed by Fielder Cook; it debuted on CBS in 1979. With the 1982 television film "Sister, Sister," Angelou continued to write stories about powerful women. Three sisters who attempt to put aside their differences in order to move their family ahead after their father's passing are the subject of the film written by Angelou. For "Outstanding Television Move, Mini-Series, or Dramatic Special," the movie received an NAACP Image Award.
