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.
Tom Fletcher is EIGHTH star eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing
msn.comTom Fletcher has become the eighth celebrity eliminated from this year's Strictly Come Dancing. The McFly singer, 36, and his dance partner Amy Dowden, 31, failed to survive the dance-off after they landed in the bottom two with Rhys Stephenson and Nancy Xu.
Both couples performed their routines again with Rhys and Nancy dancing the Jive to Footloose from Footloose and Tom and Amy performing their Couples Choice to On My Own from Les Misérables in a bid to impress the judges.
Delivering their verdicts, guest judge Cynthia Erivo chose to save Rhys and Nancy, saying: 'This was really tough, I think both couples did such a beautiful job, but there was just an edge in this couple's dance.
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