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 late composer Stephen Sondheim was honored with an incredible tribute at the 2022 Grammy Awards.
Some of Broadway’s best stars and a hot rising star performed a medley of Sondheim songs during the In Memoriam segment on Sunday (April 3) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Tony Award winners Cynthia Erivo, Ben Platt, and Leslie Odom Jr. were joined by West Side Story actress Rachel Zegler to sing “Not a Day Goes By” from Merrily We Roll Along, “Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music, and “Somewhere” from WSS.
The four entertainers performed while the In Memoriam roll played behind them, ending with the image of Sondheim. FYI: Rachel is wearing a Zuhair Murad dress. Leslie is wearing Michael Kors Collection. Cynthia is wearing Louis Vuitton. Click through the gallery for 30+ photos from the Sondheim tribute…
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