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.
Patton Oswalt is remembering his late wife Michelle McNamara on the anniversary of her death. The comedian, 52, and McNamara, a true-crime author, were married until her sudden death in 2016.
She passed away in her sleep when she was 46. In his emotional post on social media to mark the fifth anniversary, Oswalt shared a series of photos of McNamara, writing, “Of course I thought of her today.” He also mentioned their daughter, Alice, 12, and his wife Meredith Salenger in his tribute.
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