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.
Idris Elba’s formidable police inspector Luther finally made his big screen debut earlier this week in The Fallen Sun.Set shortly after the events of 2019’s fifth season, Luther: The Fallen Sun is “an epic continuation of the award-winning television saga reimagined for film.
A gruesome serial killer is terrorising London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary.”Luther: The Fallen Sun sees the return of Dermot Crowley as Martin Schenk and introduces Cynthia Erivo as Odette Rayne.
Andy Serkais plays baddie David Robey.After delivering Luther to Robey’s frozen lair somewhere in Europe, Rayne is instructed to stab him in front of a global audience watching via Robey’s Red Room subscription service.
She cooperates in a bid to save her daughter’s life, who is watching from the next room. When Luther is told to shatter Rayne’s knee with a hammer though, he refuses and scares off a majority of the viewers with the threat they’re currently being tracked by the police.Robey tries to escape and Luther follows, with Rayne and her daughter trapped in a fiery room, fighting for their lives with a hose pipe.
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