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.
Cynthia Erivo Criticizes ‘Wicked’ Poster Being Fan Edited to Hide Her Face, Calls Out ‘Is Your P—- Green?’ Memes: ‘Offensive’ and ‘It Degrades Me’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Cynthia Erivo is speaking out against “Wicked” fans who used photoshop to edit one of the recent posters for the upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway musical.
Warner Bros. released a “Wicked” film poster this month that evoked the original Broadway poster, with Ariana Grande’s Glinda whispering into the ear of Erivo’s Elphaba.
Only the film poster had a few tweaks, mainly lifting Elphaba’s hat so you could see Erivo’s eyes. “Wicked” fans loyal to the Broadway musical flooded social media after the poster dropped to issue photoshopped corrections, with Elphaba’s hat being lowered and her lips getting a bold red lipstick in order for the film one-sheet to exactly match the Broadway one.
Erivo found such alterations hurtful. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen equal to that awful AI of us fighting, equal to people posing the the question ‘is your p—- green?” Erivo wrote on her Instagram story while sharing one of the photoshopped “Wicked” posters with her face covered. “None of this is funny.
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