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.
Cynthia Erivo recording album during lockdown
peoplemagazine.co.zaSinger/actress Cynthia Erivo has used her time in lockdown to record the album she was hoping to make last year (19).The British star had a very busy 2019, promoting and earning multiple nominations for her film Harriet, in which she played former slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman, and filming HBO series The Outsider, and she couldn’t find the time to lay down tracks.
So when the coronavirus pandemic began, her record company bosses were quick to call. “When this first happened (COVID-19), I started recording,” she tells Deadline’s New Hollywood podcast. “My (record) label was like, ‘You’re at home, you’re not going anywhere which is great because you’re always going somewhere.
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