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 To Star In ‘Wicked’ Opposite Ariana Grande
essence.comCynthia Erivo is starring in the upcoming film adaption of the smash Broadway musical Wicked as Elphaba. Ariana Grande is playing opposite the British star as Galinda.
Erivo shared the news to her Instagram followers by reposting a story from the project’s director John Chu capturing the exact moment that he informed her she had gotten the part.
She also reposted stories where friends and colleagues were extending their well wishes. The story of Wicked is a prequel to The Wizard of Oz and follows the lives of the witches who lived in the mythical realm prior to the arrival of Dorthy and her magic slippers.
The show is a blockbuster and tickets to it are highly coveted. The adaptation is being produced by Universal. According to The.
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