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.
Ariana Grande Performed On The Met Gala Stage Looking Like A Sleeping Beauty Woodland Fairy! WATCH!
perezhilton.comAriana Grande looked gorgeous on the Met Gala red carpet… and became a literal fairy later in the evening!
After the carpet coverage concluded on Monday, all the stunning celebs gathered at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art were graced with a BEAUTIFUL performance by the Moonlight singer.
A sleeping Ariana was carried on stage by an entourage of backup dancers before she began singing Once Upon a Dream from the 1959 Disney princess movie Sleeping Beauty.
See (below): Ugh! The drama! The woodland stage design! So good! And so on theme for the Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion exhibit! Related: Lana Del Rey Brought The Whole Enchanted Garden To The 2024 Met! Speaking of fashion, for the performance, Ari gave us her second look of the night in a twinkling, sheer, green and purple Margiela ensemble over a snatching corset.
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