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.
Ethan Shanfeld Music’s biggest night drew 15.4 million viewers on CBS Sunday night, as the Grammys raised nearly $9 million to aid wildfire relief efforts in California.
Last year’s Grammys brought in an average 16.9 million viewers, which marked a 34% increase from the year before. That figure included Nielsen’s measurement of linear views on CBS and Paramount Global’s own data regarding streams on Paramount+, CBS.com and the CBS app.
This year’s number, courtesy of Nielsen live + same day ratings, only accounts for linear viewership on CBS. Paramount Global signed a multi-year deal with Nielsen on Monday that includes measurement for all Paramount platforms.
For the past few months, Paramount had been using data from VideoAmp after its contract with Nielsen expired in September. Sunday’s ceremony was the best Grammys in years, declared Variety‘s Chris Willman in his review of the telecast.
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