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.
Evening Standard recently to promote his new series Fellow Travelers. During the interview, he opened up in a way he doesn’t often do, even going so far as to confirm that he is not single.According to the article, when it comes to interviewing Bailey, “His relationship status is off-limits.” While he might not have shared as many details as some would have liked about his mystery person, he did tell the paper that there is “a lovely man” in his life.
And that’s where the description stopped.Bailey added that his relationship is “not secret, but it’s private.” He then talked about how “having a private life is, for me, completely critical.”Why is it so important to him?
He explained that he didn’t “know if I would be able to be as confident to speak out on other things if I felt that my whole life was up for grabs.”The two lead actors from Fellow Travelers — Bailey and Matt Bomer — have been doing press to promote the new TV show.
The pair were recently featured in GQ Hype, where Bomer revealed that when he was younger and living in New York City, trying to make it as an actor, he shared a one-bedroom apartment with fellow hottie Lee Pace.Fellow Travelers features Bailey and Bomer as secret lovers working in politics in the 1950s.
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