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 want Cynthia Erivo to replace Shirley Ballas as she 'puts judges to shame'
dailystar.co.ukStrictly Come Dancing fans have urged BBC chiefs to make Cynthia Erivo the new lead of the BBC judging panel.Viewers of the show were left in tears after the new judge began to sign to Rose Ayling-Ellis, 27, after she'd finished dancing the Paso Doble with professional dance partner Giovanni Pernice.Using her hands to communicate, she told Rose: "That was fierce."Twitter blew-up with masses of praise for Cynthia who unlike any of the other panel members had taken the time to learn sign language.One fan wrote: "Cynthia really puts the other judges to shame with how she’s learnt little bits of sign language for Rose.
We’re on week 10 and everyone else has done the bare minimum to communicate with her."Another added: "I also love that for the.
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