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 celebrates “middle-aged, imperfect’ ‘Mare Of Easttown’ character at Emmys 2021
nme.comMare Of Easttown during her Emmys 2021 acceptance speech.Earlier tonight (September 19), the actor won the award for Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for the role of Mare in the HBO show.As she walked onto the podium to collect the trophy, she said, “Mum, mum, they’re standing up – oh my god, thank you so much!” in reference to the standing ovation she was given.Winslet went on to praise her fellow nominees, who included I May Destroy You’s Michaela Coel, Genius: Aretha’s Cynthia Erivo, WandaVision’s Elizabeth Olsen and The Queen’s Gambit’s Anya Taylor-Joy. “I just want to acknowledge my fellow nominees,” she said. “In this decade that has to be about women having each other’s backs.
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