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.
‘Genius: Aretha’: Nat Geo Series To Resume Production
deadline.comNellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: National Geographic’s Genius: Aretha is set to resume filming Oct.
1 in Atlanta. The cast, led by star Cynthia Erivo, have already arrived in Georgia as the crew is wrapping up pre-production.Genius: Aretha, about the legendary singer Aretha Franklin, had filmed 5 1/2 episodes of its eight-episode order when production shut down mid-March amid the escalating coronavirus outbreak.
Two weeks later, Nat Geo delayed the premiere of the limited series, originally slated for May 25, for “later this year.”A new launch date has not been locked in yet.
According to sources, Thanksgiving has been considered though a debut at the start of 2021 appears more realistic at the moment.
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