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 Truth Comes Out In Trailer For Apple TV+ Thriller ‘Now And Then’
etcanada.comDeadly secrets come to light in the trailer for “Now and Then”, released by Apple TV+ on Tuesday. READ MORE: Korean Immigrant Saga Comes To Life In First Trailer For Apple TV+ Series ‘Pachinko’ Shot in English and Spanish, the bilingual series follows a group of college friends whose lives are changed forever when a night of partying results in one of them dying.
Twenty years later, they are reunited by the threat of their deadly secret being revealed. The all-star cast includes Academy Award nominees Marina de Tavira and Rosie Perez, Ariel Award winner José María Yazpik, multi-Goya Award winner Maribel Verdú, Manolo Cardona, Goya Award winner Soledad Villamil, Emmy Award winner Željko Ivanek, Jorge López, Alicia Jaziz, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Alicia Sanz, Jack Duarte and Miranda de la Serna. READ MORE: First Look At Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo & More In Apple TV+ Dark Comedy Anthology Series ‘Roar’ The series is created by Ramón Campos and Gema R.
Neira, with Campos also serving as showrunner and the two co-writing. The eight-episode series will release the first three episodes on May 20, with a new episode releasing every Friday.
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