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 Read Her New Children's Book to Kids at Storytime Event at Tory Burch Store
justjared.comCynthia Erivo is celebrating the release of her first children’s book, “Remember to Dream, Ebere.” The two-time Oscar-nominated actress and singer held a reading and signing of the book at the Tory Burch Mercer Street store on Saturday (October 2) in New York City. Cynthia was joined by designer Tory Burch at the event, where she read the book for a group of young kids.
Here’s a synopsis of the book: “When Ebere’s mother puts her to bed at night, she always says, ‘Remember to dream, Ebere.’ And dream, Ebere does!
Encouraged by her mother to make her dreams as big as possible, Ebere imagines herself as the captain of a rocket ship with the ability to go anywhere in the universe.” FYI: Cynthia is wearing head-to-toe Tory Burch. Click through
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