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.
New 'Wicked' Featurette Shares More Footage, Including Ethan Slater As Boq & Shows Behind-the-Scenes Making of the Sets - Watch Now!
justjared.comA new featurette for the upcoming Wicked movies has just been released and there’s new footage from the films!
Director Jon M Chu opens up in the clip about how they made actual, real life sets for the movie, to be immersed in the land of Oz, as opposed to adding it in as CGI. “We knew that we wanted Wicked to be immersive.
What’s it feel like to be in Oz? To feel it in your fingertips. If you want to be inside that world, you got to build it. You got to build Emerald City.
You got to build Munchkinland,” he says in the video. Keep reading to watch and find out more… In the new featurette, we also hear from leading ladies Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, plus more new footage is shown of them, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Marissa Bode and Ethan Slater.
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