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.
Jussie Smollett returns to Instagram with quarantine joke amid coronavirus pandemic as he awaits trial
metro.co.ukTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Jussie Smollett has returned to Instagram with a quarantine joke amid the coronavirus pandemic, as he awaits trial for allegedly staging an attack against himself.
The Empire star, who faced controversy last year, had not posted to social media since June 2019. However, he’s since returned, sharing a video of himself singing Stevie Wonder’s A Place in the Sun, captioning it with: ‘Quarantine day 421…Hope y’all are staying safe.
Spread love and kindness… not Rona.’ His remark references the exact amount of days since he told the police about the alleged attack.
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