Furthermore, in 2017, Cynthia Erivo and the rest of The Color Purple cast, along with The Today Show, won the Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program category for their performance on the NBC program.
The performance was widely celebrated, resulting in Erivo winning a Tony Award for Best Actress In A Musical in 2016.
For many folks, Cynthia Erivo is best known for her powerhouse performance as Celie Harris in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s musical production of The Color Purple, which went to Broadway in 2015.
Additionally, Erivo, Danielle Brooks, and Jennifer Hudson won a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album.