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.
There have been a lot of movies over the years hinging on time travel, but upcoming film “Needle in a Timestack” puts a new spin on the genre.
In a new trailer, protagonist Nick (Leslie Odom Jr.) is happily wed to wife Janine (Cynthia Erivo) when her ex-husband, played by Orlando Bloom, bends the fabric of time in order to crater their marriage. “If love is in the form of a circle, what lines would you cross to be with your soulmate?” is the question posed in the synopsis.
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