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Cynthia Erivo

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.

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Sarah Paulson, Cynthia Erivo on the Pressure Women Face to Play ‘Good and Safe’ Roles (Video)

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The two stars discussed the double standard at TheWrap’s 2021 Power Women’s Summit as part of a spotlight conversation moderated by TheWrap’s founder and editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman.

Erivo said that over the course of her career, she’s found Black women are quietly expected to play people in film and TV that are “good and safe,” as opposed to the antiheroes that challenge the audience’s sympathy like Tony Soprano or Troy Maxson in “Fences.”“It can be daunting to take that step and allow yourself to step into those roles,” Erivo said via video conference from London.

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