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.
The American Film Institute (AFI) has released its list of the movies and TV shows of the year. Each year, the AFI recognizes 10 movies and 10 series that it deems “culturally and artistically representative of this year’s most significant achievements” in the arts, as decided by a designated jury.
This year’s jury includes Cynthia Erivo, director Rian Johnson, Debbie Allen, Marlee Matlin, director Lulu Wang, Wes Studi, “The Marvelous Mrs.
Maisel” creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, and “Veep” writer David Mandel, along with film and TV critics and historians, including Leonard Maltin.
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