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.
Luther film which is coming to Netflix has found two additional cast members in Cynthia Erivo and Andy Serkis.The pair will join Idris Elba, who is reprising his role as the titular detective in the new movie made by Netflix in association with the BBC.Series creator Neil Cross has written the script for the film, while Jamie Payne, who directed the final season, will also be directing the film.
Shooting is set to begin in November.According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will see Luther take on two villains – played by Erivo and Serkis.
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