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 reveals what it's like to play Aretha Franklin in the new season of Genius
dailymail.co.ukFans of Aretha Franklin will have not one but two biopic projects to check out this year, starring Cynthia Erivo and Jennifer Hudson.Erivo, 34, plays the Queen of Soul in the new season of National Geographic's critically-acclaimed series Genius, which debuts March 21, while Hudson, 39, plays the iconic singer in the new film Respect, in theaters August 13.While promoting her new show Genius in an interview with E!'s Daily Pop, when she was asked what it felt like to play the same legend at the same time as Hudson.
Two projects:Fans of Aretha Franklin will have not one but two biopic projects to check out this year, starring Cynthia Erivo and Jennifer Hudson Biopic:Erivo, 34, plays the Queen of Soul in the new season of National.
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