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.
Wicked, two diametrically opposite young women form a deep friendship that isn’t tarnished by their love for the same man. Perhaps and Ariana Grande are developing a similar situation.
The reality star and the singer both dated comedian Pete Davidson (, in fact, was engaged to him) and were recently spotted looking totally chill with one another when Kardashian hosted a screening of at her cavernous home.It probably helps that , but still, always interesting to encounter an ex’s ex, right?
The movie musical, which comes out in a month, stars Grande and Cynthia Erivo, and Erivo was also at the screening. The various and sundry KarJenners in attendance posted about the event on their Instagram Stories, showing off the pink and green balloons and cocktails, as well as Wicked-themed toys and dolls.It was a “pajama party,” and everyone there wore pink or green loungewear by Kim’s brand Skims, which some believe was the reason for the screening (to promote the collab), but it’s unclear if or when these Wicked-y Skims will be available to the public.Anyway, people are kinda mad.
A questions why, of all the celebrities out there, the Kardashians were chosen to host this event, Skims aside. Yes, they’re a matriarch-led clan with a wide reach, but given the show’s message of tolerance and looking beyond appearances, they could have invited…others?
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