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.
Wicked has been a much-talked-about topic in Hollywood for many years now, and after all that time, filming is finally underway.Just recently, in fact, the first images of stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were released, exciting millions of fans of the show.While Grande and Erivo are already in the process of bringing the Broadway favorite to the big screen, they weren’t the only ones who wanted those roles, which are among the most highly-coveted in Hollywood in recent memory.In an interview with TheWrap, Dove Cameron revealed that she was also in the mix for the role of Glinda, though, of course, she didn’t end up snagging the part.“I definitely went out for it,” the actress confirmed at an event to promote the second season of the AppleTV+ show Schmigadoon. “I know that for everybody who did go out for it, it was a very long process.
It was one of the longer processes I’ve been a part of.”The confirmation that Cameron was even considered for the role doesn’t come as a major shock to some who paid close attention to the Wicked movies, as her name had been mentioned in some conversations around casting.Despite not getting the role, Cameron was gracious and expressed her immense excitement for Grande and the rest of the cast.“I’m so excited for Ariana,” she said. “She’s a genuinely dear friend of mine.
We met when we were super young. I think she’s gonna kill it. I think the whole cast is phenomenal head to toe. I’m really, really excited to see it.”While she didn’t get the part, Cameron’s auditioning for one of the two main jobs made sense.She had experience as an actress and a musician, and she’s found true success with both.
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