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.
Watch ‘Friends’ be reimagined with all-Black cast for new charity table read
nme.comFriends has been reimagined with an all-Black cast for a new table read – see footage below.The event, held on Zoom last night (September 22), was the second in a new table read series called Zoom Where It Happens.The table read featured an all-star cast, including This Is Us‘ Sterling K Brown, who played Ross, First Wives Club star Ryan Michelle Bathe as Rachel and Orange Is The New Black‘s Uzo Aduba taking on the role of Phoebe.The event was set up to support Michelle Obama’s non-profit organisation When We All Vote, and a statement says that the event “aims to catalyze voters and amplify the fight for voting rights and electoral justice, through culture and entertainment”.It also saw British singer and actress Cynthia Erivo singing the.
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