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.
Cynthia Erivo is one of several celebrities using their platform to speak up amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests.But the Grammy winner recently used her social media to spread some humor with her 80,000 Twitter followers.She got a laugh Thursday out of a TikTok video, which roastedKhloé Kardashian's recent unrecognizable new look, retweeting the video, writing: 'Hilarious.' Good laugh: Cynthia Erivo got a laugh Thursday out of a TikTok video, which roasted Khloé Kardashian's recent unrecognizable new look (pictured in February, 2020)The 33-year-old reposted the viral video by TikTok user Beverly Adaeze, which was captioned: 'When you show your mom the new Khloe Kardashian.'Adaeze impersonated an African mother, looking at four.
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