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.
Deadline Launches Its Contenders Television: The Nominees Streaming Site
deadline.comDeadline has launched the streaming site for its Contenders Television: The Nominees, out annual award-season event that this past weekend shined a light on panel presentations from 34 Emmy-nominated series featuring 117 cast and creatives from 16 broadcast and cable networks and streamers.The Saturday and Sunday virtual panels included in-depth conversation with the likes of Pose‘s Billy Porter and Mj Rodriguez, Mare of Easttown‘s Kate Winslet, Secrets of the Whales‘ James Cameron, A West Wing Reunion‘s Aaron Sorkin, Thomas Schlamme and Bradley Whitford, Christmas on the Square‘s Dolly Parton and Debbie Allen, Genius: Aretha‘s Cynthia Erivo, In Treatment‘s Uzo Aduba, Hacks‘ Jean Smart, Hamilton‘s Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry,
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