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.
Everyone will begin returning to the movies just before Thanksgiving on Nov. 22 as Universal’s Wicked and Paramount’s Gladiator II just hit tracking with respective openings of $80M+ and $65M.
Both have potential for upside and we won’t know if we’re within a Barbenheimer vortex until it happens — though that would not be a surprise.
Wicked is very hot with women, and Gladiator II, is best with men, but also older women. At $80M+, that’s easily the best domestic box office opening ever for filmmaker Jon M.
Chu, ahead of G.I. Joe Retaliation ($41M), and yes, the best ever for Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. At $65M+ for Gladiator II, that’s a record opening for Denzel Washington and for director Ridley Scott.
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