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.
Tom Hanks transform into Geppetto for his latest role in the live-action Pinocchio film.On Tuesday, May 31, Disney released the official teaser trailer for the film, which is set to release later this year. In the nearly two-minute long clip, the 65-year-old transforms into the famous woodcarver with gray hair, a mustache, and small-framed glasses.
The video sees Geppetto recite his wish upon a star, bringing the optimistic puppet Pinocchio (voiced by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) to life.“Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight,” Geppetto says in the teaser trailer. “I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight.”In addition to Hanks and Ainsworth, the film--which is set for release this September--featured an even more star-studded cast, including Cynthia Erivo, Luke Evans, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Keegan-Michael Key, and Lorraine Bracco.This live-action/computer-generated remake, based on the 1883 Italian children’s book and 1940 Disney animated film, has been in development since 2015, according to IndieWire.
Plus, it’s not the only film about the wooden puppet come to life set for this year. Director Guillermo del Toro is also working on his own take, an animated reboot of the classic, which is set to debut at the end of 2022.10 upcoming biopics we can’t wait to seeElvis Trailer: Watch Austin Butler portray Elvis Presley in new biopic about the king of rock & rollChet Hanks reflects on growing up as Tom Hanks’ son: ‘I didn’t have a strong male role model’Evans, who stars as the villainous Coachman, revealed on the D23 Inside Disney podcast last year that his character “thankfully” looks “nothing like the character from the animation.” “Things are not going to be the same as they were in the animation..
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