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.
Disney+ today (September 8). The live action and CGI retelling of the original Disney movie stars Tom Hanks as woodcarver Gepetto, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as the titular character, Cynthia Erivo as the Blue Fairy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jiminy Cricket, as well as Luke Evans as the evil Coachman.
Pinocchio is the latest Disney classic to be made into a live action movie, following the likes of Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella and The Jungle Book.But while many people know the story of Pinocchio as a puppet who longs to be a 'real boy' and whose nose grows when he lies, there is a hidden grim truth behind the character which will shock lovers of the popular Disney movie.Here is everything you need to know.
While the original Pinocchio first debuted in theatres back in 1940 and won two Academy Awards, the story actually originates from the children's fantasy novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi.
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