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.
Cynthia Erivo & Joseph Gordon-Levitt Join Disney's 'Pinocchio' as Blue Fairy & Jiminy Cricket!
justjared.comThe cast of Disney’s live-action Pinocchio is coming together! A few stars joined the cast today including Cynthia Erivo as the Blue Fairy and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jiminy Cricket!
Also announced today, according to THR, are Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as the voice of Pinocchio, and Keegan-Michael Key as the voice of Honest John, and Lorraine Bracco as the voice of Sofia the Seagull, a new character. Tom Hanks will be portraying the role of Geppetto.
The movie is set to begin production this month and will debut at a later date on Disney+. This Pinocchio project is not to be confused with a completely separate Pinocchio project in the works that has a totally different (yet still star-studded) cast!
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