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.
Gallery: Red carpet chaos! These stars all had scarcely believable dress dilemmas! (BANG Showbiz)She continued: “I don't [look] the same way every single day.
I am too greedy for that. I want to be everything, and I want to look like everything, and I want to change my personality every single day. ” The ‘Little Women’ star believes that people feel “safe” in J.
Crew. She said: “Every single person I spoke to has had J. Crew items in their wardrobe for the last 10 years, five years, whatever.
They dress their children [in it]. It's a brand that people feel safe with because it understands their shape and their mood and who they are today. ” Florence also praised fellow actresses Cynthia Erivo, 35, and Tessa Thompson, 38, for being "daring" with their ensembles.
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