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.
Grammy-winning actress and singer Cynthia Erivo will be replacing judge Craig Revel Horwood on Strictly this weekend, after he tested positive for Covid.
Erivo will be joining fellow judges Anton Du Beke, Shirley Ballas and Motsi Mabuse for the show's Musical Week special. And it's safe to say Erivo knows a thing or two about musicals; she's starred in theatre productions across the globe, including Broadway's revival of The Colour Purple, the Sister Act UK Tour and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
Erivo had her first TV role in the British series Chewing Gum and went on to star in the crime drama miniseries The Outsider. Read more:Couple get married via Zoom despite never meeting in real life She received a Primetime Emmy Award for her
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