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.
Rosie O'Donnell Raises $500,000 in Star-Studded Fundraiser for Coronavirus Relief
eonline.comIt's been about 18 years since The Rosie O'Donnell Show ended. On Sunday, Rosie O'Donnell brought back the classic talk show for one night only to help raise money for The Actor's Fund amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
The 58-year-old host certainly had a star-studded guest list, too. Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Kristin Chenoweth, Darren Criss, Gloria Estefan, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cynthia Erivo, Patti LuPone, Ben Platt, Katharine McPhee, David Foster, Neil Patrick Harris, Barry Manilow, Erich Bergen, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tituss Burgess, Billy Porter, Jordin Sparks and Miranda Sings were just a few of the big names to make virtual cameos on the YouTube program.
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