Cynthia Onyedinmanasu Chinasaokwu Erivo (born 8 January 1987) is an English actress, singer, and songwriter.
She is known for her performance as Celie in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple, for which she won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program, the latter two she shared with the rest of the cast.
Erivo ventured into films in 2018, with roles in the heist film Widows and the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale. In 2019, she portrayed abolitionist Harriet Tubman in the biopic Harriet, for which she earned nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
A win for Chadwick Boseman would be a triumph at the Oscars for Black artists
msn.comInsecure’s Issa Rae to quip, after announcing the all-male list of nominees, “Congratulations to those men’’. But in 2021, two women are in the category.
And in the acting categories, half of the nominees are people of colour – a striking turnaround from 2020’s awards, which saw only one nomination for an actor of colour, Cynthia Erivo.
There are some particularly exciting nominations in this year’s shortlist, leading many black critics to breathe a sigh of satisfaction and declare an exasperated “Finally!” at the news.
Chadwick Boseman, whose death from cancer in 2020 came as a shock to fans, joined the likes of Heath Ledger and James Dean in the rare category of people posthumously nominated for one of their final roles.
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