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.
The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled a host of industry heavy-hitters for its 2021 pandemic-era jury members. Daughters of the Dust director Julie Dash, Harriet star Cynthia Eviro and novelist Hanya Yanagihara will judge the U.S.
dramatic competition, as they figure among 22 jurors selected to award prizes from six competitions on Feb. 2. Criterion Collection curator Ashley Clark, The Act of Killing director Joshua Oppenheimer and Lana Wilson, the Emmy-winning director of Miss Americana for Netflix, will sit on the U.S.
documentary jury. And the World Cinema dramatic jury will be filled by Turkish producer Zeynep Atakan, Young Soul Rebels director Isaac Julien and Chilean actress Daniela Vega, star of A Fantastic Woman.
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