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Cynthia Erivo

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.

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Cynthia Erivo On Becoming The Queen Of Soul For ‘Genius: Aretha’

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Cynthia Erivo will soon be seen playing the legendary Queen of Soul in “Genius: Aretha”, the third edition of National Geographic‘s “Genius” series.

While the first season focused on Albert Einstein (played by Geoffrey Rush) and the second on Pablo Picasso (Antonio Banderas), the latest is a five-episode limited series about the life and particular musical genius of Aretha Franklin, portrayed by Cynthia Erivo.

Erivo, a two-time Oscar nominee and winner of a 2016 Tony for her role in “The Color Purple” on Broadway, revealed that she had been put forward for the role before she even knew the project existed.

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