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Multiple-award-winning actress Cynthia Erivo has entered Golden Globes race with two nominations, one for her starring performance as famous abolitionist and American hero Harriet Tubman in the Focus Features biopic, Harriet, as well as for the film’s original song Stand Up which co-wrote with Joshuah Brian Campbell.…

The determined struggles of true-life heroes, whose tales look to resonate loudly this awards season, were at the heart of Focus Features' Contenders NY presentation Saturday at the DGA Theater in New York City. For Harriet writer/director Kasi Lemmons (who helmed both Eve's Bayou and Talk To Me) the task was to offer…

Cynthia Erivo is transformed into the late, great Queen of Soul in a first-look photo from Genius: Aretha, the upcoming biographical series from National Geographic and Fox 21 Television Studios. See the photo below. Erivo, a Tony Award winner for Broadway’s 2015 The Color Purple and the star of this year’s Harriet…

"I had known about her since I was little," Harriet star Cynthia Erivo said of the iconic Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman. "I felt like she was a superhero to me and I wanted to make sure the world saw her as a human being and a woman," added the British-born Tony and Grammy winner. In our discussion about…

There is absolutely no denying Harriet Tubman’s significance in American history: a famous conductor of the Underground Railroad who freed many enslaved people, a Union Army spy and an activist for women’s suffrage. But the story of the much-lauded perennial figure of the Civil Rights movement never had been…

Some crazy stories come out of Hollywood, but this one is truly unbelievable. According to Harriet screenwriter and producer, Gregory Allen Howard, Julia Roberts was suggested by a studio executive to play abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The Oscar-winning actress, who is white, looks nothing like Tubman, who was black…

Cynthia Erivo stopped in to The Late Show on Thursday to do a preview of her role as Aretha in Genius: Aretha by belting out the classic, I Never Loved A Man. The actor and Broadway star, who plays the title role in Harriet, the biopic about the life of Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman, could become the…

Courtney B. Vance, an Emmy winner for his performance as Johnnie Cochran in FX's The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, is set to star opposite Cynthia Erivo in Genius: Aretha, the next installment of Nat Geo's popular anthology series, from Imagine Television and Fox 21 TV Studios. Billed as the…

Harsh reality takes center stage in Focus Features' Harriet, the harrowing story of abolitionist Harriet Tubman (Cynthia Erivo), and Dark Waters, the tale of attorney Rob Bilott (portrayed by producer and star Mark Ruffalo) ,the Cincinnati lawyer who took on DuPont, which was dumping toxic materials into the water in…

Harriet Tubman, the much admired African American abolitionist, Civil War spy, philanthropist and just about everything else she could pack into 91 years, died in 1913 just as the movie industry was in its infancy. Now more than a century later this true hero is finally, finally, getting her own motion picture. Even Ha…

Cynthia Erivo is just one Oscar away from adding her name to the exclusive club of EGOT winners — meaning Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony. You might recall she won the Tony for her stirring portrayal of Celie in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple, a show she first played in London. The Emmy came for a TV performance…

Setting out to score Harriet, composer Terence Blanchard was inspired and driven forward by the iconic subject of Kasi Lemmons' drama—Harriet Tubman, the slave-turned-abolitionist who repeatedly risked her life to save hundreds of other men, women and children from the horrors of an inhuman institution. Marking…