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.
Apple’s ‘Roar’ is a feminist black mirror with Nicole Kidman, Issa Rae
nypost.compremiering Friday, April 15) is based on a book of short stories by Cecelia Ahern, and created by Carly Mensch and Liz Flahive’s (“GLOW”).
Each standalone episode features a big name — Nicole Kidman, Issa Rae, Alison Brie, Cynthia Erivo — in various tales that range in genres from magical realism to psychological horror.
The end result is a mixed bag of vignettes that don’t always feel cogent, but are never boring.The first episode, “The Woman Who Disappeared,” stars Rae as a woman who has written a hit memoir that’s become a book club staple.
She’s flown to Hollywood to take meetings about the prospect of adapting it into a movie. As her story unfolds and shows her experience as a black woman in Hollywood talking to a group of white male execs, it takes on a sci-fi bent and becomes increasingly surreal.Episodes are thankfully around 40 minutes or shorter, and tell concise stories without the extra padding that’s all-too-common among streaming shows.
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