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 playing the «wicked» witch Elphaba and Ariana Grande as the «good» witch Glinda (formerly Galinda). is the story of how a green-skinned woman framed by the becomes the Wicked Witch of the West.
The two lead roles were first played by Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth on Broadway.«I wasn't OK when I found out either.
I was not OK,» Erivo told ET's Nischelle Turner at the 2022 SAG Awards of being cast in the iconic role. Though the cast has not started rehearsing just yet, Erivo, 35, and Grande, 28, have already been in communication, working on the bond between their characters. «I can tell you that Ariana is wonderful.
The two of us are really starting to find our feet and find our relationship and really enjoy one another's time and space and conversations,» Erivo said of the pop diva. «She's the sweetest person.»Noting that the movie will start rehearsals this summer, Erivo, who is one Oscar away from an EGOT, said that she and Grande are «definitely excited to sing together.» «We go into rehearsals in July, and then it's off to the races.
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