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.
Jasmin Rosemberg “The looks I’ve been seeing have been really groundbreaking,” says Terrell Mullin, makeup artist to Cynthia Erivo. “I think people were so bored of being in the house that once they got a chance to actually do someone’s makeup for a carpet, it was like, ‘Let’s go balls to the wall.’ People are really taking chances and pushing the envelope this season when it comes to makeup.”To complement Erivo’s Valentino Globes look, which Mullin describes as “a modern-day Jane Jetson,” he lined her eyes with liquid purple eye shadow.
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