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 opens up about being activist for the Black Lives Matter movement and using her Instagram to “spark joy,” while providing comfort with her music.
The Oscar-nominated actress, 33, is InStyle magazine‘s October cover star and shares all about celebrating her Blackness, her activism and harnessing her singing superpower.
RELATED: Cynthia Erivo Performs Exquisite ‘Summertime’ In Virtual Festival Performance “I was 5-years-old the first time I sang, and I noticed right away that it made people happy,” she says of her love of singing. “You might not have the words for whatever you’re feeling, but I might have the song for it.
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