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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nypost.comQCode’s Rob Herting and Automatik’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger, with Feste and Jennifer Besser producing through their Quiet Girl Productions.
Feste wrote with Jennifer Besser.The production included QCode sending actors sterilized recording equipment. Scenes were acted out on Zoom with Feste.Screen rights are available on the show.
QCode’s previous podcasts to have been picked up for screen versions include Cynthia Erivo movie “Carrier” at Amblin and Amazon series “The Left Right Game.”The LA-based audio outfit, which has grown to 12 employees, is planning to produce multiple podcasts this year in different genres.
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