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.
Kate Winslet added a second Emmy to her trophy shelf with tonight’s Limited Series Best Actress win for HBO’s Mare of Easttown.
The Oscar winner, by all arguable accounts, disappeared into the role of the wise, patient, vaping, local Delco County small town Detective Mare Sheehan, funky accent and all — a woman who was connected all too well, family wise et al, to the murder suspects in her town.
The slow burn drama series mushroomed in its weekly viewership on HBO and HBO Max; the series finale notching a linear and digital record with 4M viewers over Memorial Day weekend.Winslet won in a fierce battle in the Best Actress Miniseries Anthology category against Cynthia Erivo who played Aretha Franklin in NatGeo’s Genius: Aretha, Michaela
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