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 fans all have the same complaint as BBC host Dan Walker survives another week
thesun.co.ukBBC bosses faced fresh fix allegations after its Breakfast host Dan Walker survived another week on flagship show Strictly. Dan, the bookies’ favourite for the chop, swerved the dance-off despite criticism from judge Craig Revel Horwood.
Instead, Tilly Ramsay, 20, and Rhys Stephenson, 28, went head to head — with Tilly bowing out. Craig told Dan, 44, on Saturday evening his rumba was “jolty”.
He added: “Yeah, you wiggled your hips but anyone can do that. “You were marching it and stomping on every two and stopping still rather than doing the dance.” But Dan and partner Nadiya Bychkova got enough marks from Anton Du Beke, Shirley Ballas and Cynthia Erivo and viewers’ votes to be safe.
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