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.
Strictly Come Dancing star Craig Revel Horwood, 57, has backed former dancer Anton Du Beke, 55, to carry on scoring when the BBC returns to TV later this year.
He said: "I am so pleased he is a judge now finally. "There are only so many years you can be on the front row with the dancing...I was pleased they got him off the dance floor and put him where he belongs.
So bravo, Anton! "I hope he comes back next year, I am sure he will." This may come as unwelcome news to Bruno Tonioli, 66, who has been unable to participate on Strictly due to the pandemic.
Previously, Bruno would fly between the UK and the US, where he is also a judge on Dancing with the Stars. (Strictly's former head judge Len Goodman is still a judge on the American show).Strictly stalwarts Bruno, Anton and Craig have all been on the hit BBC show since it began almost two decades ago, in 2004.
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