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.
Jussie Smollett Returns to Social Media After Nine Months With Stevie Wonder Cover: 'Quarantine Day 421'
billboard.comJussie Smollett emerged from a social media blackout on Wednesday (March 25) to share a song amidst the global coronavirus pandemic."Quarantine day 421...Hope y’all are staying safe.
Spread love and kindness... not Rona," the embattled star wrote alongside a clip of himself singing a cover of Stevie Wonder's 1966 single "A Place in the Sun."The rare post elicited a wave of responses from fellow celebs, with the likes of Cynthia Erivo, Lena Waithe, Blair Underwood and Laverne Cox leaving messages of support and heart emojis in the comments.On Feb.
24, Smollett pleaded not guilty to a new wave of charges stemming from a reported Jan. 2019 hate crime that police allege the star faked for sympathy.
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