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.
Tilly Ramsay and Nikita Kuzmin topped the Strictly Come Dancing Musical Week leaderboard with a perfect score of 40 points. The pair danced their couple’s choice to Revolting Children from Matilda on Saturday.
The TV presenter, 20, and her professional partner, 23, were met with a standing ovation following their energetic routine. Last week the pair faced elimination but were saved unanimously by the judges over Dragons’ Den businesswoman Sara Davies and her partner Aljaz Skorjanec.
Guest judge Cynthia Erivo - who stepped in to guest judge - said their dance was “awesome”. Motsi Mabuse said the duo were a “force to be reckoned with.
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