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.
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade drew its largest audience ever this year, according to NBCUniversal. The 98th annual event amassed 31.3M viewers Thursday across linear and digital platforms, which is up 10% from last year’s 28.5M, the company said.
About 24M tuned in on NBC alone during the live telecast from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET. That makes it the most-watched entertainment show on linear television since the 2020 Academy Awards on ABC.
Though NBCUniversal didn’t give specifics on the digital audience, the company did reveal that streaming hours on Peacock grew by 26% compared to last year’s parade.
In the 18-49 demo, it was the highest-rated telecast since 2021’s New Year’s Rocking Eve on ABC with a 5.4 rating. “The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is an event in which we take enormous pride, and it’s an absolute joy to know that there was a record number of people watching across both NBC and Peacock,” Jen Neal, Executive Vice President, Live Events and Specials, NBCU Entertainment, said in a statement. “The parade is a tradition like no other.
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