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 sat in a star-studded section at the Paris Olympics on Sunday (July 28) and cameras caught a view of her iPhone lock screen.
While Ariana was sitting alongside Wicked co-star Cynthia Erivo, Cynthia‘s partner Lena Waithe, her brother Frankie Grande, and Wicked director Jon M.
Chu, a Vogue rep took a quick video! Ariana and Cynthia posed for the moment, and Ariana‘s lock screen briefly appeared on camera.
Fans believe her lock screen shows a photo of her and her boyfriend, fellow Wicked star Ethan Slater. Head inside to see the photo in question… We’ve embedded the photo below, and the video of the moment as well.
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