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 Says Paparazzi Used Hang-Gliders to Fly Over the ‘Wicked’ Set and Take Videos: ‘I Couldn’t Believe My Eyes’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Paparazzi apparently took things to the next level in order to leak photos and videos from the set of Universal’s upcoming “Wicked” musical adaptation.
Cast members Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey recently spoke together on behalf of VMan magazine and expressed shock over the hang-gliding paparazzi that flew over the “Wicked” set one day. “I think we were very spoiled to have done this with [director Jon M.
Chu],” Grande said about the experience of filming the two-part musical. “It felt like a teeny, little secret student thing — its intimacy.
It felt so small and private until all of a sudden, we were outside, and the Daily Mail was hang gliding over our set — oh, he should play the pterodactyl in your film [‘Jurassic Park’].” Bailey, who is headlining the next “Jurassic World” movie opposite Scarlett Johansson, said the hang gliding paparazzi was “a man on a massive kite, floating around with his legs hanging down…With a GoPro.
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