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.
Book To Movie Adaptations Coming Out This Year
deadline.comWith It Ends With Us set to shake up the box office this weekend thanks to Colleen Hoover’s hive of fans as well as followers of Blake Lively or Justin Baldoni, the power of a book to big screen adaptation will surely be on display.
Several other well known books have transformed for the big screen this year, including comics like The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, childhood stories like Harold and the Purple Crayon and more.
Read on for a list of this year’s book to movie adaptations: It Ends With Us – Aug 9 – Theaters Starring Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Brandon Sklenar and more, It Ends With Us is a feature film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel. Tales of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Aug 9 – Paramount+ The latest animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turltes film stars Michah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr.
and Ayo Edebiri. It is based on the comics by Jason Aaron, Ronda Pattison and Joëlle Jones. The Crow – Aug 23 – Theaters Bill Skarsgård, FKA Twigs and Danny Huston will star in The Crow based on James O’Barr’s novel. Uglies – Sept.
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