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.
Nicole Kidman joins stellar cast of Cecelia Ahern’s new series
evoke.ieCecelia Ahern has much to celebrate this month as news has just emerged of a new show she has created being picked up by Apple TV+.
As if that wasn’t big enough a scoop already, there’s some pretty famous faces signed up to star in it too. The series, called Roar, is based on the author’s book of the same title, which a collection of short stories examining what it means to be a woman.
According to reports, Nicole Kidman is just one of the famous faces signed up to appear in the eight-part series; other names on board include Alison Brie, Merritt Wever, and Cynthia Erivo.
The Hollywood Reporter details that each of the 30-minute episodes in the anthology series will be told from a unique female point of view and will examine a number of
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