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.
Netflix Sets Cynthia Erivo To Star In Sci-Fi Film ‘Blink Speed’; Erivo & ‘The Trial Of The Chicago 7’s Matt Jackson Producing
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) is to star in and produce sci-fi feature Blink Speed for Netflix.The Trial Of The Chicago 7 and Molly’s Game producer Matt Jackson will also produce.Erivo will play a young woman who is plagued by a rare and mysterious savant ability after a near death experience.
Her new skill may also be the key to unlocking the truth behind her fractured memory and past.The movie is based on Eric Brown’s short story, which the streamer picked up in a competitive situation.
Brown (Queen Bitch And The High Horse) is scripting the screen adaptation.Grammy, Tony, and Emmy winner Erivo is producing with Salome Williams under Erivo’s Edith’s Daughter banner.
Jackson is producing for Jackson Pictures with Joanne Lee aboard as exec producer for the same company.Erivo will next be seen in Disney’s Pinocchio with Tom Hanks and is currently in production on Luther with Idris Elba for Netflix.
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