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.
Ben Platt & Noah Galvin Are Married! Couple's Star-Studded Wedding Guest List Revealed
justjared.comBen Platt and Noah Galvin have tied the knot! The Broadway actors first started dating in January 2020 and they got engaged in November 2022.
The couple got married during Labor Day Weekend in New York City. The wedding weekend began with a Friday night Shabbat welcome dinner and a game night on Saturday, followed by the wedding ceremony on Sunday. “Since some of Ben’s family are observant Jews, we couldn’t get married until Sunday when Shabbat was over, so to keep the party going we had a bar hang with some games and Lombardi’s pizza on Saturday night at Cellar Dog in the West Village,” Noah told Vogue. Ben added, “Finally, on Sunday, we had the wedding proper at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Noah was sad that nobody used the IKEA ferry to get there…” An after party was held at Sunny’s Bar, where guests snacked on Shake Shack and sang along to showtunes.
So many celeb guests were in attendance! Keep reading to find out more… Among the guests were Beanie Feldstein, Kaitlyn Dever, Zoey Deutch and boyfriend Jimmy Tatro, partners Cynthia Erivo and Lena Waithe, Kathryn Gallagher, Younger stars Molly Bernard and Tessa Albertson, Broadway star Micaela Diamond, Owen Thiele, and Eve Lindley.
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