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.
Sarah Paulson, Cynthia Erivo and New York Attorney General Letitia James Headline WrapWomen’s Power Women Summit and Changemakers Evening, Live
thewrap.comPower Women Summit, WrapWomen will host an evening celebrating the largest gathering of the most influential women in entertainment, media and technology, and honoring the women on this year’s Changemakers list, all of whom made an extraordinary impact in the entertainment community this year.
The event will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 1 at The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills.The evening will feature a slate of programming aimed to inspire and empower women in their professional careers and personal lives, including: “WrapWomen is honored to foster a community of women who can come together and lift one another up at a time when this is critically needed,” said Sharon Waxman, Founder and Editor in Chief of TheWrap. “To be able to.
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