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.
Aretha Franklin, Billie Eilish & More Women Who Hold Awards Show Records
billboard.comIn honor of Women's History Month, which runs through the end of March, let's look at records that women have set at awards shows.
These aren't simply instances of the first woman to do this or that; these are cases where a woman holds a record that isn't gender-specific.In some cases, women are absolutely crushing it in a particular category.
In the history of the Academy Awards, just three people have been nominated for Oscars for acting and songwriting in the same year.
All three are women: Mary J. Blige, Lady Gaga and Cynthia Erivo.Billie Eilish set a record earlier in January as the youngest person ever to win the Grammy for album of the year.
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