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.
Dee Cannon, Longtime British Acting Teacher, Dies at 58
hollywoodreporter.comDee Cannon, the British acting teacher who schooled the likes of Cynthia Erivo, Ben Whishaw, Colin Firth, Tom Hiddleston and Andrea Riseborough, died Sept.
28 of myeloma, her rep announced. She was 58. A onetime student of Uta Hagen who spent 17 years as a senior acting teacher at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Cannon also worked with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Simon Callow, James McArdle and Jason Momoa, among many others.
She recently supported directors as an on-set coach on the Netflix projects Jingle Jangle and The English Game and on the Hulu reboot of Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Cannon held masterclasses in London, Los Angeles, New York, Stockholm, Berlin, Beijing and elsewhere around the world during her career and published three.
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