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.
UTA Elevates Emerson Davis, Chelsea McKinnies to Partners
thewrap.comAlso Read: United Talent Agency Promotes 8 Coordinators to AgentMcKinnies is an agent in UTA’s talent department and started at the agency in 2015.
She started her agency career in 2008 at the CAA reception desk in New York and was promoted to agent there in 2012. She represents artists such as Constance Wu, Tracee Ellis Ross, Amandla Stenberg, Cynthia Erivo, Anna Faris, Aidy Bryant, Martin Lawrence, Kiersey Clemons and Jodie Turner-Smith.Kevin Durant and Dwyane Wade are the two most high-profile signings thus far of the 2016 free agency summer.
Durant was a great value for Golden State, while Wade will sell a ton of tickets and jerseys in his hometown of Chicago -- neither of them quality for our list of "the worst."Click on through to.
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