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 movie starring Ariana Grande as Glinda The Good Witch will now be split into TWO films
dailymail.co.ukWicked will be split into two films, released one year apart, according to director Jon M. Chu.The news was revealed on Tuesday morning via the director's social media, later reposted by the Ariana Grande, who is set to star as Glinda in the movies.The films, which will be adapted from the Broadway musical, will be released on December 25, 2024 and December 25, 2025.
The latest:Wicked will be split into two films, released one year apart, according to director Jon M. ChuAriana's casting as Glinda the Good Witch was revealed in November, with co-star Cynthia Erivo tapped to play Elphaba.Wicked the movie is based on the hit Broadway play, which was based on the 1995 book Wicked: Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.
Jon revealed Tuesday the reasoning for splitting the project into two films in a lengthy Instagram post.He said trying to fit it in one film met cutting songs or characters, which led him and his team to realize it needed to be in two films.
Upcoming:The news was revealed on Tuesday morning via the director's social media, later reposted by the Ariana Grande, who is set to star as Glinda in the movies; pictured Dec 2018 News:The films, which will be adapted from the Broadway musical, will be released on December 25, 2024 and December 25, 2025 News:Jon revealed Tuesday the reasoning for splitting the project into two films in a lengthy Instagram post; pictured November 4, 2018'As we prepared this production over the last year, it became increasingly clear that it would be impossible to wrestle the story of WICKED into a single film without doing some real damage to it.'Adding: 'As we tried to cut songs or trim characters, those decisions began to feel like fatal compromises to the.
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