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 radiates star power as Aretha Franklin in NEW STILL from Genius
dailymail.co.ukCynthia Erivo radiated star power as Aretha Franklin in a brand new still for the upcoming season of Genius.The image, an onstage shot of Cynthia in character as Aretha, was released Wednesday on what would have been the late singer's 78th birthday.National Geographic's Genius is an anthology series in which each season relates the life story of a different historic figure.
Aglow:Cynthia Erivo radiated star power as Aretha Franklin in a brand new still for the upcoming season of GeniusThe first two seasons focused on Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, and the third season premiering May 25 will be about Aretha.Aretha started off as a gospel singer at her minister father's church and became a star in the 1960s and embarked on a legendary.
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