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.
Luther feature length film The Fallen Sun hits cinemas today (February 24).Originally airing on the BBC back in 2010, Idris Elba has starred as police detective John Luther across five seasons.
The Fallen Sun continues his storySet shortly after the events of 2019’s fifth season, Luther: The Fallen Sun is “an epic continuation of the award-winning television saga reimagined for film.
A gruesome serial killer is terrorising London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary.”Luther: The Fallen Sun sees the return of Dermot Crowley as Martin Schenk and introduces Cynthia Erivo as Odette Rayne.
Andy Serkais plays baddie David Robey.Luther: The Fallen Sun is released in cinemas today (February 24) but it will be available to stream via Netflix from March 10.Speaking about his ambitions for The Fallen Sun, Elba said: “It’s not a competition, but I reference Bond as a template for the type of film we’re going for.”“John is a leading character in a film that he’s the hero of.
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