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.
Bradley Cooper, Rita Ora And Others Join Bear Grylls For A New Adventure Into The Wild
etcanada.comBradley Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cynthia Erivo, Russell Brand, Troy Kotsur, Rita Ora, Daveed Diggs, and Tatiana Maslany are several famous people who test their survival abilities in the new season of Nat Geo’s “Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge,” which premieres Friday. READ MORE: Florence Pugh Repels Out Of A Helicopter In Thrilling ‘Running Wild With Bear Grylls’ Clip For 48 hours in a tough setting, Grylls and a famous person are paired in the series.
The guest must perform these tasks by themselves the next day after Grylls teaches them to them on the first day. These skills include fire-making, water-finding, and climbing methods.
In one of the hardest environments in North America, Bradley Cooper jumped into a hovering helicopter, down a 400-foot precipice, and hauled himself over a 100-foot ravine for his most recent part. “I’m really proud of this season.
We’ve had incredible guests who pushed the boundaries in terms of terrain and the challenge,” Grylls told The Associated Press. “When there’s real tough weather with fun people, it’s often really compelling TV.” The finest guests, according to Grylls, are always those who arrive eager to roll with the punches rather than just to look good. “The wild is so unpredictable and stuff is always happening.
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