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Born
January 8, 1987 · Stockwell, London, England, UK

Birth name
Cynthia Onyedinmanasu Chinasaokwu Erivo

QUOTES:

We’re in a dangerous place right now when people who have nothing to do with us are making decisions about our lives and our bodies. We’re watching changes that were made for our freedom getting rolled back.

Sometimes showing your faith brings embarrassment because of where we are in the world now.

I vividly remember my first time on stage. I was five years old and I played a shepherd [in the school Nativity]. They made me sing ‘Silent Night’ solo. I saw my mum smiling, maybe crying, and I remember knowing that people were really happy. That was the first time that I thought, ‘ooh, this might be what I’m supposed to do’.

I grew up in Stockwell, south London. We had a humble upbringing and my mum raised my sister and I on her own.