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.
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She got her big break when she starred in The Color Purple as Celie in 2016. The actress won her first big award by taking home the Tony for Best Actress in a musical.
She then went on to make her film debut in Bad Times at the El Royale in 2018. Her talents certainly didn’t go unnoticed as she was nominated twice for an Oscar in 2020.
She received her first nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her performance as Harriet Tubman and her second for Best Original Song for “Stand Up,” which she wrote for the musical.
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