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.
Jon Chu Reveals 'Wicked' Will Be Two Movies, Shares Release Dates
etonline.commovie news that’s going to make the world dance in their seats! The director of the film, which stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, revealed that the film will now be broken into two movies, with the first one coming to theaters in December 2024 and the second one in December 2025. “Thank you for all the support these past several months in anticipation of the movie,” he wrote in a note posted on his social media. “We have so many exciting things to share but for now I’m giving you one...or two, rather.” Chu shared that as he and the cast went on to prepare the film, they realized that there was just too much to cut, without taking away from the original beloved story. “Here’s what happened: as we prepared this production over the last year, it became increasingly clear that it would be impossible to wrestle the story of into a single film without doing some real damage to it,” the note continued. “As we tried to cut songs or trim characters, those decisions began to feel like fatal compromises to the source material that has entertained us all for so many years.
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