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.
Tony Awards parties.Eyes red, heels broken, sequins… everywhere. Gripes about Uber surge charges. A Tony in one hand, a McDonalds bag in the other.After last year’s pandemic-hobbled celebrations — held in the fall, 2021 Best Play winner “The Inheritance” had a last-second fete at Hurley’s Saloon and Josh Groban and Aaron Tveit ate Trader Joe’s mini hotdogs in William Ivey Long’s studio — big bustling bashes were back in full force.Champagne was being poured all over town — toasting victories and drowning sorrows.
Best Play victor “The Lehman Trilogy” took over upstairs at the Bowery Hotel and Best Musical “A Strange Loop” was at the sexy Edition on 47th Street.
The night’s big loser “The Music Man,” starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, was on the new roof venue of the old Edison, a block away.I stopped by a few soirees (just who everyone wants at their feel-good party — a critic!) to watch Broadway let loose.
Midnight: Tony parties can go south fast if the show doesn’t win. In 2017 at the Redeye Grill shindig for “Come From Away,” which lost to “Dear Evan Hansen,” I learned just how sad Canadians can get.
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