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.
How Tina Fey, Amy Poehler will host Golden Globes 2021 from opposite coasts
nypost.comfor the first time, from both coasts.Beyond that lies the great unknown. Sunday’s show — co-hosted, respectively, by Tina Fey at the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center and Amy Poehler at the Beverly Hilton in LA — airs at 8 p.m.
on NBC. Producers have been busy working behind the scenes to adapt the pandemic-era broadcast to its virtual realities, which involves much more than just the lack of a live celebrity audience at either venue. “You can expect a star-studded night,” Barry Adelman, one of the show’s executive producers, told The Post. “With all the nominees who are participating, plus the presenters who are coming to both venues, we will have a star presenting every single award — live.”Awkwafina, Cynthia Erivo, Joaquin Phoenix,.
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