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.
Porter, The Dropout star reflected on some of the uncomfortable situations she experienced early on in her career.“Being 19, walking around without my underwear on — like, are you kidding me?” she said. “How did I let that happen?
Oh, I know why: I was 19, and I didn’t want to upset anybody, and I wanted to keep my job. That’s why.”Earlier this year, Seyfried admitted to being “grossed out” by male fans who would frequently approach her and mention a scene from Mean Girls, in which her character Karen Smith said she could predict the weather by holding her breasts.“I always felt really grossed out by that,” she told Marie Claire. “I was like 18 years old.
It was just gross.”The actress also shared her thoughts on finding stardom at such a young age, saying: “I think being really famous [young] must really fucking suck.
It must make you feel completely unsafe in the world.“I see these younger actors who think they have to have security,” she added. “They think they have to have an assistant.
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