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.
Idina Menzel, Billy Porter & More Stars Raise $2M-Plus With Virtual 'Saturday Night Seder': Watch It Now
billboard.comIdina Menzel, Billy Porter, Ben Platt, Cynthia Erivo and more came together over the weekend for "Saturday Night Seder," a virtual, star-studded Passover seder.
About 50 celebrities participated in traditional storytelling, comedic skits and musical performances recalling maggid, the story of the Jews' exodus from Egypt.
Hosted by Jason Alexander, "Saturday Night Seder" included Erivo and Shoshana Bean's rousing duet of "When You Believe" from Prince of Egypt accompanied by Stephen Schwartz; Porter and Henry Winkler's singing/storytelling mashup of "Go Down Moses"; a musical recitation of the Four Questions by Nick Kroll, Finn Wolfhard, Menzel and The Ma Nishtanah Ensemble; and a hopeful "Next Year" ensemble led by Shaina Taub and featuring
Read more on billboard.com