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.
Ariana Grande Met Gala: Will 2024 Be Her Return to Fashion's Biggest Night?
glamour.com? We don't know quite yet, but the future is looking…eternally sunny?It's safe to say Grande has had a big 2024, and we aren't even halfway through the year yet.
In March she released her seventh studio album, Eternal Sunshine, her first in nearly four years, which premiered at number one on the And that's not the only project she's been promoting.
In November she will appear as Glinda in the hotly anticipated part one of Wicked, alongside her new boyfriend, Grande, along with Wicked costar Cynthia Erivo, has been hitting all the awards shows lately to promote the film, appearing in perfectly coordinated outfits to represent their characters (Grande in Glinda pink, Ervio in Elphaba green).So it's not too much of a stretch to think the dynamic duo will continue to make appearances at big events like the Met, especially since this year's theme, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” is on brand with the whole fairy-tale thing. (Is Wicked a fairy tale?
For these purposes, it is.)If Grande does attend, it will mark only the second time she's come to the Met. Yes, she's graced us with her presence (and fashion) only That year she wore a Vera Wang dress printed with images from the Sistine Chapel to go with the theme of “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.”So will we be treated to another Ariana Grande Met Gala?
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