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.
EXCLUSIVE: Cynthia Erivo and Renée Zellweger have teamed up for a thriller series that is in the works at Apple TV+.
Raising Wild will star Erivo with Zellweger exec producing the series, which is produced by MGM and comes from Damian Kindler and Amber Alexander.
The project is at early script stage, we understand, and is being showrun by Damian Kindler (American Gods) and created by up-and-coming scribe Amber Alexander, both of whom are exec producing.
MGM is the studio behind Raising Wild and is producing with Identity Media. Erivo is understood to be leading as a neuropsychologist wanted for fraud kidnapping and murder.
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