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 SLAMS ‘Offensive’ Edit Of Wicked Poster, But Fans Say She’s ‘Overreacting’ For THIS Reason!
perezhilton.comCynthia Erivo does NOT like your fan edits! Or wait… She does? Maybe?! It’s clearly a fine line for her! In preparation for the release of Wicked next month, Universal Pictures just dropped a poster of Cynthia’s character Elphaba and Ariana Grande’s character Glinda.
See it (below): It CLEARLY draws inspiration from the poster for the original Broadway musical, but just has a few minor differences… See the OG (below): But while the differences may have been subtle, they’re apparently very important to Cynthia! Related: Sydney Sweeney Fans Abandon Reason After Seeing Her Unrecognizable Look For New Movie! A photo has been circulating around the web of a fan’s redesign of the movie poster to make it look more like the Broadway poster.
You can see (below): And while it may have been done in the spirit of good ol’ fun and love for the Broadway production, Cynthia is FUMING over it!
On Wednesday, she took to Instagram with a SCATHING message about how the redesign is the “wildest” and “most offensive” thing.
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