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.
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msn.comREAD MORE: What will Lawrence Chaney's digital series be about? When is it out?In 2020, Erivo starred as Holly Gibney in The Outsider, a mystery drama based on Stephen King's novel of the same name.
Holly was an eccentric savant investigator who was hired to help with a case that started off with the disappearance of a young boy.
Actress Erivo starred alongside Ozark actor Jason Bateman in the series, who also acted as the director on The Outsider. She's also got plenty of other projects in the pipeline so prepare to see more of Erivo in the future.
Erivo will play the lead in the upcoming sci-fi film Needle in a Timesack which is about a marriage being destroyed by a time-traveller.
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