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.
Billie Eilish is a Grammy award winner again! The 18-year-old songstress and her brother, Finneas O’Connell, picked up the award for Best Song Written for Visual Media for her song “No Time to Die”.
The track will be featured on the delayed, and still upcoming James Bond movie, No Time to Die. Billie and Finneas were nominated in the category with Taylor Swift for Cats’ “Beautiful Ghosts”, Cynthia Erivo for “Stand Up” from Harriet, Brandi Carlisle for “Carried Me With You” from Onward, and “Into the Unknown” from Frozen 2. Billie is also nominated for a few other awards at the ceremony tonight.
Her track, “everything i wanted” is up for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Pop Solo Performance. Last year, Billie swept the Big
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