Harriet

Harriet is a 2019 American biographical film about slave-turned-abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Directed by Kasi Lemmons, who wrote the screenplay with Gregory Allen Howard, it stars Cynthia Erivo as Tubman, with Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, and Janelle Monáe in supporting roles.

It is based on the life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery and led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqoEs4cG6Uw

....the leading actress is Cynthia Chinasaokwu Erivo was born to Nigerian parents in Stockwell, South London.

...she attended La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' School....Erivo began a music psychology degree at the University of East London, however a year into her degree, she applied to, and subsequently trained at, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art....