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.
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
‘The Buccaneers’ Director Susanna White Talks ‘Bridgerton’ Comparisons & Taylor Swift, Reveals Feature Developed For BFI About Her Teen Years
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Veteran British director Susanna White has revealed she’s working on debut feature film based on her teenage life in the fashion world as she gears up for today’s launch of Apple TV+ period drama The Buccaneers.
White is developing an untitled script for the BFI, with the plot following her personal coming of age story set against the backdrop of the fashion industry. “It’s the story of me at 13, set in the world of fashion in 1970s,” she told Deadline in an interview. “It’s very fun, sexy and hopefully moving.” “My dream is to get the film made,” added the British producer-director, who is currently searching for financing for the project.
White is also currently developing the film version of Jodie Comer theater production Prima Facie, with Cynthia Erivo attached, and and executive-produced and directed the first two episodes of her latest project, The Buccaneers, the Apple series that launches globally today.
She is known for directing the A24 feature Woman Walks Ahead starring Jessica Chastain and Sam Rockwell, Working Title’s Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang.
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