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 Names Two New Partners
hollywoodreporter.comUTA has promoted agents Chelsea McKinnies and Emerson Davis to become partners at the Hollywood talent agency. A 14-year veteran, Davis is part of UTA’s motion picture literary group after coming up through the mailroom to become an agent in 2010.
His roster for film and TV talent includes Hiro Murai and Terence Nance, authors Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Chabon and producer Stephanie Allain.
McKinnies joined UTA in 2015 after launching her agency career in 2008 on the CAA reception desk in New York and being promoted to agent status in 2012.
McKinnies reps Constance Wu, Tracee Ellis Ross, Amandla Stenberg, Cynthia Erivo and Anna Faris, among others. "Chelsea and Emerson make us better as a whole and will provide leadership and inspiration.
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