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.
Liza Koshy takes brutal fall on Oscars 2024 red carpet: I pulled a J. Law!
nypost.comOscars. The charismatic 27-year-old media personality and former YouTuber graced the 96th Academy Awards red carpet on Sunday in a red off-the-shoulder Marchesa gown and massive platform heels — the latter causing her to fall to the ground in front of photographers. “That’s alright,” the “Players” actress said from the ground as an assistant rushed to help her up. “It was a manhole,” she joked. “You saw that?
Oh my god.”Later down the carpet, Koshy asked red carpet correspondent Amelia Dimoldenberg if she witnessed her “eat it.” “I’m joining a legendary group of women like J.
Law who fell on the carpet,” Koshy quipped, referring to Jennifer Lawrence tripping on the 2014 Oscars red carpet. Koshy continued, “I made a whole moment of it.
I said, ‘Wait a minute. I’m not nominated. I’m not presenting. I gotta fall,'” adding that the carpet smelled like Dimoldenberg’s feet.The tumble quickly made its rounds on X (formerly Twitter), where fans praised her for handling “it with grace.” “I hope she’s okay!
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