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.
Awkwafina, Zendaya, Cynthia Erivo And More Stars Invited to Join the Academy
etcanada.comThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is embracing and championing diversity in a bigger way than ever before. The organization sent out a slew of invitations to potential voting members, including Zendaya, Awkwafina, Cynthia Erivo, Constance Wu, and John David Washington, to name a few.
More then 800 invitations were sent Tuesday, with 36% of the invites going to people of color and 45% being sent to women. Additionally, 49% of invitees are based outside of the United States, in a total of 68 different countries. “Atlanta”‘s Zazie Beetz, Oscar-nominated “Roma” star Yalitza Aparicio, “Knives Out” actress Ana de Armas and “Russian Doll” star Natasha Lyonne are among those who were asked to join as voting members, along with Bobby
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