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.
We have our first professional photos of the leads of the Wicked movie, including Ariana Grande as Glinda, Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard (all courtesy of Vanity Fair!) The cast and director, Jon M.
Chu, also sat down for a brief interview. We learned some fun tidbits about the movie, including that Cynthia and Ariana sing the famed musical’s songs live in the film! Keep reading to find out more… Jon shared, “These are live vocals.
When we were shooting it, those girls were like, ‘F-ck the pre-records. We’re going live.’” He recalls asking, “There’s going to be a lot of wind in your air pipes.
Is that okay?” They both responded yes! About their auditions, Ariana said she had been wanting the role for years.
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