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 fans brand BBC show a 'fix' as Dan Walker gets 9 for 'wooden' dance
dailystar.co.ukStrictly Come Dancing fans have branded the BBC show a "fix" after Dan Walker received a score of 31, including a nine from guest judge Cynthia Erivo.
The BBC Breakfast star danced a Rumba with his pro partner Nadiya Bychkova to Eagles song Desperado but failed to impress viewers.He scored a six from Craig Revel Horwood, two eights from Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke and a nine from Cynthia.Fans rushed to Twitter to call out the scoring, with many disagreeing about whether he deserved the generous numbers."This has to be a fix.
A 9! A 9! Mad," one disgruntled viewer wrote.Another said: "6, it didn't even f***ing deserve that... a 9, WTF is she on, and 2 8s, f*** right off."A third wrote: "Is Dan Walker the biggest ever fix on Strictly?
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