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.
Kristin Chenoweth is sharing the advice she gave Ariana Grande ahead of her role in Wicked!
During an interview with ET at the 2022 Critics’ Choice Awards, the actress discussed the upcoming move version of the musical and showed her support for the “positions” singer. Click inside to read more… “I have known Grande since she was 10, so Ariana, I am very very proud of you.
She knows,” Kristin said. “We talk every day and it’s an honor and a pleasure to pass the wand and the crown to you.” “I am a mentor,” she added. “I am also a mentee because I am learning from her as well.” As for the advice she gave Ariana, Kristin said she encouraged the star to find her own interpretation of the character. “I told her not to think about me.
To find her own Glinda,” she shared. “We talk about it, and we talk about life a lot.” She also addressed whether or not she’d have a cameo in the film. “You never know,” she told reporters. “I think I would be great on Yellow Brick Road somewhere.
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