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 ‘Roar’
etcanada.comNicole Kidman stars as “The Woman Who Ate Photographs” in AppleTV+’s intriguing new series, “Roar”. The show features eight separate feminist fables which offer “an insightful, poignant, and sometimes hilarious portrait of what it means to be a woman today.” READ MORE: Nicole Kidman Missed The 2022 Oscar Nominees Luncheon Due To Torn Hamstring Issa Rae, Cynthia Erivo, Betty Gilpin and Alison Brie are among the other actresses who take starring roles in the anthology series, with Gilpin portraying a woman whose husband puts her on a literal pedestal.
The official synopsis explains, “These eight stories mirror the dilemmas of ordinary women in accessible yet surprising ways.” READ MORE: Naomi Watts Insists She And Close Friend Nicole Kidman Want To Do Another Movie Together: ‘We’ve Got To Make It Happen’ The show is based on a book of short stories by Irish novelist Cecelia Ahern.
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