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.
Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown and Others Sign Open Letter About Racism in Theater Industry
variety.comMackenzie Nichols Staff WriterHundreds of stars have banded together to sign an open letter calling out leaders in the theater industry for neglecting to acknowledge their own white privilege and lift up people of color.Actors, including Sterling K.
Brown, Viola Davis, Katori Hall, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lynn Nottage, Leslie Odom Jr., Sandra Oh, Jeremy Pope, Billy Porter, Issa Rae, Cynthia Erivo, Uzo Aduba, Andre Holland and Danielle Brooks, have signed the letter — titled “We See You, White American Theater” — as “The Ground We Stand On,” a reference to August Wilson’s play based on her 1996 book “The Ground on Which I Stand.” The book serves as a literary call to African Americans to challenge racist establishment by taking back their.
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