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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Three things to watch 'The Kardashians'You can still keep up with the Kardashians, just now on Hulu.The family has brought the next stage of their lives to the streaming service with a new docuseries.New show, same old ability to bring us drama from Hollywood's most famous reality TV family — it's sure to speak to diehard fans.The first episode is streaming now.'Roar'Nicole Kidman has made transitioning from success on the big screen to the small screen look easy.This time, she's part of an all-star cast that includes Alison Brie, Issa Rae, Cynthia Erivo and Hugh Dancy in an anthology of "genre-bending stories told through eight women's eyes."Intrigued?
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