{"id":9591,"date":"2021-11-10T23:48:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T22:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/?p=9591"},"modified":"2021-11-10T23:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T22:48:29","slug":"cynthia-erivo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/cynthia-erivo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p>Cynthia Erivo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cynthia-erivo-4-1170x694.jpg\" alt=\"Cynthia Erivo\" class=\"wp-image-9593\" width=\"1066\" height=\"631\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cynthia-erivo-4-1170x694.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/refinedng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cynthia-erivo-4-768x456.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1066px) 100vw, 1066px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Cynthia Erivo is a well-known stage actor, performing in <em>The Colour Purple and Sister Act.<\/em> She has appeared in films including <em>Bad Times <\/em>at the El Royale, and <em>Widows<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Cynthia began acting in a 2011 stage production of\u00a0<em>The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.<\/em> She got her break for starring in the\u00a0Broadway\u00a0revival of\u00a0<em>The Color Purple<\/em>\u00a0from 2015 to 2017, for which she won the 2016\u00a0Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical\u00a0and the\u00a0Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">The actress ventured into films in 2018, playing roles in the heist film\u00a0<em>Widows<\/em>\u00a0and the thriller\u00a0<em>Bad Times<\/em> at the El Royale. Following her portrayal of American abolitionist\u00a0Harriet Tubman\u00a0in the biopic\u00a0<em>Harriet<\/em> (2019), Cynthia received a nomination for the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Actress. She also wrote and performed the song \u201cStand Up\u201d on its soundtrack, for which she got a nomination in the\u00a0Best Original Song\u00a0category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/download-95-840x694.jpg\" alt=\"Cynthia Erivo\" class=\"wp-image-9592\" width=\"1009\" height=\"833\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">On television, Cynthia had her first role in the British series\u00a0<em>Chewing Gum\u00a0<\/em>(2015). In 2020, she went on to star as investigator\u00a0Holly Gibney\u00a0in the\u00a0HBO\u00a0miniseries \u2013\u00a0<em>The Outsider<\/em>, a television adaptation of\u00a0Stephen King\u2019s novel\u00a0of the same name. That same year, she launched a production company named Edith\u2019s Daughter as well as signed a deal with media company\u00a0MRC\u00a0to develop television projects through the production company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/dr-anino-emuwa\/\">Dr Anino Emuwa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Cynthia also appeared in the science fiction film\u00a0<em>Chaos Walking<\/em>, based on\u00a0Patrick Ness\u2019 novel\u00a0<em>The Knife of Never Letting Go<\/em><em>, <\/em>which was released on 5 March 2021. The actress is not stopping yet. She received a nomination for the\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited\/Anthology Series\/ Movie,\u00a0for her portrayal of American singer\u00a0Aretha Franklin\u00a0in\u00a0National Geographic\u2019s anthology series\u00a0Genius: Aretha\u00a0(2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">In her music career, Cynthia has released two songs titled \u201cThe Good\u201d and \u201cGlowing Up\u201d to promote her debut studio album,\u00a0Ch. 1 Vs. 1, which was released in September 2021. In the same month of its release, she joined the jury of the\u00a078th Venice International Film Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Cynthia Erivo has more to share about her acting and music career on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiaerivo.net\">www.cynthiaerivo.net<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia Erivo Cynthia Erivo is a well-known stage actor, performing in The Colour Purple&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[278,295,2427],"class_list":["post-9591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-refinedng","tag-wcw","tag-cynthia-erivo-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9594,"href":"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions\/9594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refinedng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}