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.
Queen Latifah, Billy Crystal, Dionne Warwick Honored at Kennedy Center Honors 2023
justjared.comPresident Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden are honoring this year’s Kennedy Center Honors recipients! Queen Latifah, Billy Crystal, Dionne Warwick, opera singer Renée Fleming, and the Bee Gees‘ Barry Gibb were recognized for their achievements in the performing arts during the 2023 Kennedy Center Honors event on Sunday (December 3) in Washington, DC. Keep reading to find out more… “As simple as it is profound, performing arts are more than just sound and scene — they reflect who we are as Americans and as human beings,” President Biden said at the reception. “That’s especially true for more than 200 Kennedy Center honorees over the past 46 years, who have helped shape how we see ourselves, how we see each other and how we see our world.” Past recipients in attendance included Lin-Manuel Miranda, Debbie Allen, Robert De Niro, and Rita Moreno.
Other guests in attendance included Ariana DeBose, Christine Baranski, Kerry Washington and husband Nnamdi Asomugha, Michael Buble, Cynthia Erivo, Dove Cameron, Tituss Burgess, Ben Platt and fiance Noah Galvin, Mickey Guyton, Nancy Pelosi, Jay Leno, Rob Reiner, SNL‘s Ego Nwodim, and Little Big Town.
The 2023 Kennedy Center Honors was filmed for CBS and Paramount+ and will air at a later date. Click through the gallery for 45+ pictures of the stars at the event…
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