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.
However AJ has appeared not to question decisions to mark her down, even telling Grazia magazine recently: "I have the least experience of everyone."Even Tom [Fletcher, of McFly] has been to stage school."I think what I'm bringing to the table [is] shamelessness!"I'm bringing you shameless energy – that's all I've got to give."Yet maxinecarridice took to Strictly's official Instagram account last night to echo beliefs that judges had unjustly scored AJ down."We missed Motsi tonight," she lamented.In a stern message to her stand-in, she added: "Please stop underscoring this couple Judges."Kellyaj1995 agreed: "Motsi would have given that dance a 10 for sure!!"The debate continues, with more action coming up on the results show, screened this.
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