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.
Marissa Bode Teases Nessarose’s Expanded Arc in ‘Wicked’ Films: ‘She’s Not Just the Bratty Little Spoiled Sister’
variety.comKatcy Stephan Marissa Bode thought she lost out on her dream role of Nessarose in “Wicked.” After a self tape and a series of callbacks, she stopped hearing back from casting. “I was like, ‘It’s dunzo for me.’ I was sad, so I made a little short film to distract myself,” Bode tells Variety.
Because it was prime spooky season in October, Bode centered the film around witches and magic. “It’s all about turning your bad luck into good luck.
I create a little spell that good news will soon come knocking,” she recalls. “At the end of the video, you hear a knock at the door.
I really do think I accidentally may have created a spell, because two days later, I heard back from casting.” During her next Zoom call with director Jon M.
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