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.
Sophie Cookson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cynthia Erivo, Hugh Grant, and Nick and Priyanka Jonas.Over the course of the evening, 17 trophies will be handed including the public-voted EE Rising Star Award, which was awarded to Bukky Bakray.Taking to Twitter, one viewer said: "Edith Bowman looks like she’s got out of the bath and put a towel round her #BAFTAs."While another added: "Edith seems like a lovely person and an excellent presenter, but this blue dress is so poorly fit as to be impossible to focus on anything she’s saying. #BAFTAs."(sic)"Do you not think that Edith Bowman’s dress is horrendous?" asked a third.However, Edith was also flooded with compliments, with one BAFTA viewer saying: "Edith Bowman is SERVING this evening she looks fire.
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