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.
Hollywood Bowl Announces Summer Season With Christina Aguilera, H.E.R., Cynthia Erivo, ‘Black Panther’ and More
variety.comChris Willman Music WriterAfter taking 2020 off due to the pandemic, followed by no small amount of suspense about what would be possible for 2021, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association has announced a summer schedule for the Hollywood Bowl that represents a robust if slightly scaled-down near-return to normal.More than 50 performances have been scheduled for a season that will get underway just a little later than usual, on July 3, and run through Sept.
28.The LA Phil tells Variety that current COVID protocols call for shows to be sold at two-thirds of capacity for the initial concerts in July, with the possibility of selling more if conditions and county color codes change.
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