Cynthia Onyedinmanasu Chinasaokwu Erivo (born 8 January 1987) is an English actress, singer, and songwriter.
She is known for her performance as Celie in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple, for which she won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program, the latter two she shared with the rest of the cast.
Erivo ventured into films in 2018, with roles in the heist film Widows and the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale. In 2019, she portrayed abolitionist Harriet Tubman in the biopic Harriet, for which she earned nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo Talk Power of Friendship In New 'Wicked' Teaser - Watch Now!
justjared.comA brand new featurette and poster for the upcoming Wicked movie just dropped! On the poster, stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo can be seen holding hands and looking at each other, with Oz and Shiz University in the background.
In the new video teaser, the pair, along with director Jon M Chu and co-star Jonathan Bailey, talk about the characters bond and the power of friendship, while also showing a bit more footage from the highly-anticipated movie musical. Keep reading to find out more… “Wicked to me, at its very core, is about friendship,” Jon says. “And it starts with a really fun look at how these two young women were so different from each other, are forced to be roommates and don’t get along at all.” “These two very different women just fall completely in love with each other,” Ariana adds. “And that is mirrored experience of what happened with Cynthia and I.” Cynthia continues, “We just sort of… I got chills.
We both just like found each other, I guess… We just got each other immediately.” Check out the full poster in the gallery and watch the friendship featurette right here!
Wicked (part one) is set to hit theaters on November 22nd. If you missed it, a new teaser centered on Jonathan Bailey’s Fiyero was recently released.
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