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.
‘American Fiction’ Filmmaker Cord Jefferson Teases New Erotic Thriller Movie – DGA Awards
deadline.com“I want to do an erotic thriller and I’m also working on a neo-western that is also is like a noir,” beamed American Fiction filmmaker Cord Jefferson about his potential sophomore directorials.
The director spilled the beans on his next project to Deadline while walking the DGA Awards red carpet. Jefferson is up tonight for first-time feature filmmaker.
Following the world premiere of his Amazon MGM satirical African American comedy at TIFF, Jefferson was further launched out of a canon after the movie grabbed the Grolsch People’s Choice Award at the Great White North film fest; an Oscar bellwether.
Jefferson is twice nominated at this year’s Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Motion Picture of the Year. Further teasing his next genre directorials, Jefferson said, “Both of them have similar themes to what’s in American Fiction through a much, much different lens.”In regards to who he’d like to cast, Jefferson muses, “I know he’s retired right now, but I love Gene Hackman, and I really love Corey Hawkins, Bryan Tyree Henry, Cynthia Erivo; the list goes on and on.
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