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.
Nicole Kidman Eats Photographs In First Trailer For Apple TV+ Anthology Series 'Roar' - Watch!
justjared.comNicole Kidman has a slightly unusual obsession in Apple TV+ anthology series, Roar – she eats pictures!
The 54-year-old actress and executive producer is seen alongside Betty Gilpin, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, Alison Brie, Issa Rae and many more in the series, which will debut on April 15.
Here’s a summary: Based on the book by best-selling author Cecelia Ahern, Roar explores female experiences that many women have but rarely talk about.
Through these 8 stories, each episode uses magical realism and delivers an insightful, poignant, and sometimes hilarious portrait of what it means to be a woman today. Meera Syal, Fivel Stewart, Kara Hayward, Daniel Dae Kim, Jake Johnson, Jillian Bell, Nick Kroll, Hugh Dancy, Alfred Molina, and Peter Facinelli also star in the show.
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