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 to Play Blue Fairy in Robert Zemeckis’ ‘Pinocchio’ (Exclusive)
thewrap.comdebut on Disney+. Andrew Miano and Weitz are producing through their company Depth of Field along with Zemeckis’s Imagemovers.
Tom Hanks is playing Geppetto, while Luke Evans is playing The Coachman.Also Read: 'Pinocchio,' 'Peter Pan & Wendy' to Skip Theaters for Disney+Cynthia Erivo most recently starred in “Widows” and “Harriet,” and will next be seen in “Chaos Walking” alongside Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley.
On the TV side, she most recently starred in “The Outsider” for HBO.She will next star in the TV series “Genius,” in which she stars as Aretha Franklin.
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