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.
She turned 34 years old this Friday.And Cynthia Erivo celebrated on Instagram by sharing a breathtaking poster of herself as Aretha Franklin on the upcoming season of Genius.TheNational Geographic show is an anthology series in which each season relates the life story of a different historic figure.
Happy birthday:Cynthia Erivo celebrated on Instagram by sharing a breathtaking poster of herself as Aretha Franklin on the upcoming season of GeniusSeasons one and two focused on Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso respectively, and the third season premiering this March will be about Aretha.In the new poster Cynthia is dressed up as the young Aretha, folding her arms determinedly alongside the slogan: 'ALL HAIL THE QUEEN.' The multimedia post.
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