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 is set to be the Glinda to Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba in Wicked film
dailymail.co.ukAriana Grande has been cast in Universal's forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Broadway's Wicked.The 28-year-old singer will portray the giddy and glamorous Glinda the Good Witch, while actressCynthia Erivo will tackle the role of the misunderstood Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba.'Thank goodness,' captioned Grande, who made the big reveal on Instagram with screengrabs of a Zoom call featuring her co-lead Erivo and the film's director Jon M.
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