Ava DuVernay taps Cicely Tyson for series regular role on her OWN anthology series 'Cherish The Day'

 Harpo, IncAva DuVernay has tapped a legendary actress for her upcoming anthology series at OWN. On Tuesday, the network announced that Oscar and Emmy-winning actress Cicely Tyson has joined the cast of Cherish The Day as a series regular.  The casting makes Tyson, who’s 94, one of the oldest– if not the oldest — series regular on television. She joins The Mindy Project‘s Xosha [zosha] Roquemore and Underground star Alano Miller in the cast.  The series follows Roquemore as Gently James and Miller as Evan Fisher, a couple who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles over the course of five years and eight episodes. Tyson will play Miss Luma Lee Langston, a legendary star of stage and