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 lit up the stage at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night (July 30) for her debut show at the famed L.A.
venue! The Emmy-winning, Grammy-winning, and Tony-winning entertainer paid tribute to her favorite female artists during her show with the L.A.
Philharmonic. The orchestra kicked off the show with the overture from the musical Funny Girl and Cynthia segued into “Don’t Rain on My Parade” for her first song of the night.
Throughout the evening, she performed the music of such greats as Aretha Franklin, Annie Lennox, Mary J.
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