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.
‘Wicked’ fans petition to keep James Corden out of film adaptation
nme.comJames Corden in the upcoming film adaptation of Wicked.The big screen version of the long-running stage musical confirmed its major castings last week, with Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo set to play its leads.However, Corden’s prevalence for appearing in movie musicals in recent years, including Cinderella, The Prom and Cats, has drawn the ire of many fans.In a new Change.org page created in the wake of the Wicked news, creator Mikel Miller declared: “James Corden in no way shape or form should be in or near the production of Wicked the movie.
That’s pretty much it.”The petition has, at the time of writing, received over 31,000 signatures, a short way off its 35,000 target.Corden drew a particular backlash recently after he was filmed.
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