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.
on Wednesday, previewing a land of magical toys and animals headed by Tom Hanks and Cynthia Erivo. Hanks fully transforms for his role as Geppetto, the wood keeper who crafts the puppet and treats him as his own son after Erivo's blue fairy brings him to life.
In the trailer, the fairy's magical shimmer floats across the wooden toy’s rigid body before he begins to move and speak. When Geppetto realizes what’s happened, he drops a cat he’s holding and falls backward in astonishment.
Fans also get a peek at Jiminy Cricket, voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who acts as Pinocchio’s guide and conscience. Together, the two characters embark on an adventure in a marionette show that is dubbed “the eighth wonder of the world” at the beginning of the trailer. “Why on earth would you want to be real when you can be famous?” asks Honest John, played by Keegan-Michael Key, followed by Geppetto’s voice telling the protagonist, “you will always be my real boy.” Disney+ first released a look at Hanks as the puppeteer in March.
In the original picture, Geppetto crouches down and gazes at the puppet who sits on a shelf. The 66-year-old actor sports curly gray tresses and an equally gray mustache.
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