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.
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Taylor Swift, Michael Mann’s ‘Heat’, Seth Meyers & Common Headline Tribeca Festival’s Talks And Reunions Lineup
deadline.comTaylor Swift, Common, Seth Meyers and cast and crew including Al Pacino and Robert De Niro reuniting to talk about Michael Mann’s Heat are a few of the headliners confirmed for the Tribeca Festival’s Talks and Reunions lineup.The festival will run from June 8-19 — a later slot than its longtime April-May home and a holdover from last year’s edition, a Covid comeback held largely at outdoor venues.Swift made a splash as a filmmaker in 2021, directing, writing, producing and starring in the short film All Too Well, which went with an expanded new version of the song of the same title from her album Red.
The 2012 album was re-recorded and released last fall.Along with Swift, this year’s Tribeca Talks: Storytellers lineup includes Grammy winner Pharrell Williams; NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers in conversation with Saturday Night Live’s Aidy Bryant; Tony winner Cynthia Erivo; DJ Steve Aoki; comedian Tig Notaro; photographer and artist JR; director and stand-up comedian W Kamau Bell; and television writer-producer Phil Rosenthal in conversation with actor-director Alex Edelman.The section also includes Deadline’s Dade Hayes appearing with Dawn Chmielewski, a Reuters correspondent and his co-author of the new book about the streaming boom, Binge Times.
The pair will be featured in conversation with Evan Shapiro, former head of multiple cable networks and producer known for shows like Portlandia.The Tribeca Talks: Directors Series features Tyler Perry in conversation with CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King, and artist and director Julian Schnabel discussing his 2000 film Before Night Falls.
The series also includes a virtual conversation with director-producer-screenwriter Adam McKay available exclusively through Tribeca at Home.“
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