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, 29, showed her naturally flawless complexion in a video on Instagram before morphing into a made-up version. The Rain On Me vocalist published the snaps while promoting her R.E.M Beauty line.
On Instagram, Ariana was enjoying a coffee as she filmed a short video of herself with her clean face, smiling into the camera as she held her large mug.READ MORE: Ariana Grande 'always brings her own toilet seat on tour', says Roman KempShe was wearing a strapless black lace dress with her clear complexion on show for all her 324 million Instagram followers to see, with the Grammy Award-winning artist also donning a love heart necklace in the photo she called "before".The "after" photo saw Ariana sat in a car with a full face of make-up, but not too heavy, with her hair tied up in an elegant bun as she wore a strappy black top.
She also had matching earrings to her cute necklace.Ariana launched the cosmetics line, which is described as vegan-based, in November last year.
Fans flocked to the comment section to compliment how good she looked. One fan commented: "OMG I love seeing you without any make-up on."Another wrote: "You look so gorgeous in the before picture."A third penned: "Beautiful as always." The Grammy winner is preparing to play Glinda in a film adaptation of the musical Wicked, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz which focuses on the friendship between Elphaba and Glinda, before they were known as the Wicked Witch of the West and the Good Witch.Cynthia Erivo, the Tony Award-winning English actress, is set to star as Elphaba.The Tony award-winning musical is expected to be told in two parts.
Read more on dailystar.co.uk