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.
Live-action Pinocchio movie casts Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Cynthia Erivo
msn.comThe Wrap reports, with Gordon-Levitt voicing Jiminy Cricket and Erivo playing the Blue Fairy. The movie will be a hybrid of live-action and visual effects in the vein of the 2017 re-imagining of Beauty and the Beast, with Tom Hanks playing Geppetto and Luke Evans as the Coachman.
Benjamin Evan Ainsworth will voice Pinocchio, while Keegan-Michael Key will provide the voice for Honest John and Lorraine Bracco will voice a new character, Sofia the Seagull.
Gordon-Levitt recently starred in Aaron Sorkin's legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, and his other acting credits include Batman flick The Dark Knight Rises and sci-fi thriller Looper.
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