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.
On Thursday, Billie Eilish performed with Green Day and her brother Finneas at the FireAid concerts at the Forum and Intuit Dome.
On Sunday, Eilish performed at the 2025 Grammy Awards. Two days later, the two-time Oscar winner made her way to the DGA Theater in West Hollywood where she moderated a Q&A with another music legend and potential Oscar winner, Ariana Grande.
A conversation following a SAG member screening of a movie Eilish has seen three times already, the 10-time Oscar and Best Picture nominated blockbuster, “Wicked.” READ MORE: Cynthia Erivo pushed her body to extremes for ‘Wicked’ After the pair walked arm and arm on stage, to a “This is crazy” from Eilish, she shared, “I remember finding out you got the job through the internet and I was like ‘F**k yeah!
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