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 opening up about salary, and fighting for fair pay for roles. The 34-year-old Harriet actress spoke out during TheWrap‘s Welcome to Power Women Summit 2021. Click inside to read more… During the discussion, she opened up about her experience with equal pay in the industry. “It’s really bloody hard, that’s my experience,” she expressed. “It’s really bloody hard, it’s always a fight, you spend so much time explaining why you’re worth the money that you’re worth,” she continued. “And it makes it really difficult to step on a set when you think that you had to struggle to get the thing that you deserve.
I don’t know why we’re still in this phase in 2021, it doesn’t make sense,” Cynthia went on to explain. “And I know that I’m
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