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.
SAG Awards: Henry Golding, Cynthia Erivo, Sterling K. Brown and More Kick Off "I Am an Actor" Segment
hollywoodreporter.comAs is tradition, the 27th annual SAG Awards began on Sunday night with a number of actors introducing themselves and their professions, along with their favorite titles that got them through the past year.
Helen Mirren, Sterling K. Brown, Dan Levy, Henry Golding, Riz Ahmed, Cynthia Erivo and Mindy Kaling were among the actors, many of whom shared their favorite television shows: The Great, The Queen's Gambit, The Flight Attendant. "I think I have watched everything that was available to me," said Levy, of his television habits."We pretty much rammed our way through The Mandalorian," said Golding. "I love white people behaving badly," added Brown, speaking of Succession.
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