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.
Glamour U.K. Women of the Year Awards 2022: Nicola Coughlan, Cynthia Erivo and More on the Red Carpet
usmagazine.comGirls night out! Glamour U.K. celebrated its annual Women of the Year Awards with a stylish soiree on Tuesday, November 8.Cynthia Erivo, Kim Cattrall and Bridgerton‘s Nicola Coughlan and Charithra Chandran and more stars gathered together to honor activists and trailblazers.It was a big night for Erivo, 35, as the Harriet star took home the Game-Changing Performer Award.
For the special evening, the London native looked fierce in a leather halter dress. The flirty frock featured baby pink accents and was finished with a pleated construction.
Erivo completed the look with knee-high boots and dangling earrings. Of her accomplishments, the actress told Glamour in an interview published ahead of the awards: “It took me some time to really hone in on who I am, what I have to offer the universe and to feel confident in that.”She added: “Once I found it, I felt fiercely protective of it because there’s only one me, just like there’s only one anyone else.
I get this sort of weird feeling if I’m not being honest or truthful about who I am. I’ve learned not to be anything but me.”Cattrall, 66, was also an honoree.
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