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 Winners Cynthia Erivo & Leslie Odom Jr. Both Wear Headpieces to Met Gala 2022
justjared.comCynthia Erivo and Leslie Odom Jr. have arrived at the 2022 Met Gala! The two Tony-winning stars showed off their cool looks while arriving at fashion’s big night on Monday evening (May 2) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
For the event, Cynthia, 35, donned a a white lace and feathered dress paired with a white headdress and gold necklace while Leslie, 40, sported a black tux with a black flower lapel pin and black round hat.
The dress code for the event is “Gilded Glamour” and it’s inspired by the Costume Institute’s exhibition, In America: An Anthology of Fashion.
Guests are asked to “embody the grandeur—and perhaps the dichotomy—of Gilded Age New York,” a period that stretched from 1870 to 1890.
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