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.
Dove Cameron Confirms She Auditioned for ‘Wicked’ Movie: ‘One of the Longer Processes I’ve Been a Part Of’
thewrap.comultimately went to Ariana Grande. “I definitely went out for it,” Cameron revealed to TheWrap, speaking on the press line at a “Schmigadoon!” Season 2 FYC event in North Hollywood. “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 in the mix with eventual stars Grande and Cynthia Erivo comes after a long-lasting, feverish push online from fans to get Cameron to star as one of her dream roles, Glinda.“I don’t think everyone wants me to be Glinda but, I mean, it’s like the role of a lifetime,” Cameron told ET back in 2019, responding to initial casting rumors that the role was hers. “I’ve been dreaming of it since I was, like, 7.
I mean, I should be so lucky to be considered.”(Fittingly, Cameron also noted Thursday night that her “Schmigadoon!” co-star and Broadway’s original Glinda, Kristen Chenoweth, is a hero of hers: “I just idolized her from such a young age,” she told the audience at the TV Academy Saban Media Center.)Earlier with TheWrap, the actress was quick to note that the “Wicked” movie’s eventual star, Grande, is “a living icon” and that she can’t wait to see what she does with the opportunity.
The two lifelong performers have known each other for years, coming up as child actors, with Cameron most notably starring on the Disney Channel’s “Liv and Maddie” and Grande on Nickelodeon’s “Victorious.”“I’m so excited for Ariana.
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