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.
Disney reveals release date, drops trailer for live-action ‘Pinocchio’
nypost.comdropped the first trailer for the musical starring Tom Hanks, 65, as Geppetto and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 41, as Jiminy Cricket during “Good Morning America” on Tuesday.The first look teases, but does not show, the doll.“Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight,” Geppetto (Hanks) says in the teaser trailer. “I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight.”Robert Zemeckis’ “Pinocchio” also stars Cynthia Erivo as the Blue Fairy, Keegan-Michael Key as “Honest” John, Lorraine Bracco as new character Sofia the Seagull, Luke Evans as the Coachman and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as the voice of Pinocchio.
Evans, 43, told the “D23 Inside Disney” podcast last year that his character is nothing like the animated film.“Things are not going to be the same as they were in the animation.
The storyline is very, very similar, but there were some characters that [Zemeckis] was able to dramatically enhance, and the Coachman is one of those,” he said.The release of “Pinocchio” is timed to premiere on Disney+ Day, a celebration of the streaming service, which leads into D23 Expo: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, set for Sept.
8-10, which will feature “special experiences for fans and subscribers,” according to Variety.Disney is expected to announce more Disney+ Day premieres “in the coming months,” according to Variety.The original animated version of “Pinocchio” is currently streaming on the platform..
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