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.
A first look at the upcoming Guillermo del Toro adaption of "Pinocchio" is here. On Wednesday, Netflix released the official trailer for the stop-motion animation film scheduled to be released in December.The film will briefly be played in theaters in November before moving over to the streaming service the following month.
Gregory Mann will assume the title role along with Ewan McGregor as Cricket and David Bradley as Geppetto. "Pinocchio" will also star Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton, Finn Wolfhard, Ron Perlman, Tim Blake Nelson, Burn Gorman, Cate Blanchett and John Turturro.
Del Torro co-directs the film with Mark Gustafson. The Academy Award-winning director’s adaptation should not be confused with the live action "Pinocchio" starring Tom Hanks, Robert Downey Jr., Luke Evans and Cynthia Erivo coming in September.
Del Toro’s "Pinocchio" shows a wooden boy growing up in Italy in the 1930s during the rise of fascism, which del Toro describes in a June Vanity Fair story as "an environment in which citizens behave with obedient, almost puppet-like faithfulness." Guillermo del Toro's "Pinocchio" released its first trailer Wednesday. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto) "Many times the fable has seemed, to me, in favor of obedience and domestication of the soul," he added. "Blind obedience is not a virtue.The virtue Pinocchio has is to disobey.
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