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.
Stanley ‘Wicked’ cups nearly led to ‘brawl’ between Target customers: ‘People went crazy’
nypost.comcommotion at Target.A new, limited-edition collection in collaboration with the upcoming movie “Wicked” hit the big-box store’s shelves on Oct.
13, and they immediately defied gravity, flying off the shelves and creating pandemonium.One video said that “people went crazy” and claimed there was “nearly a brawl” as customers rushed to get their hands on the beloved cups, which come in 40-ounce and 20-ounce sizes in either Glinda pink or Elphaba green, colors named after characters in the film played by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, respectively.People went crazy over the Wicked Stanleys#maurmi #funnygranny #wickedstanley #target #wicked @maurmi10 @S A V A G E G R A N T A group of people can be seen running through a Target in St.
Louis, Missouri, as they searched for the highly anticipated display — and the person speaking in the video claimed that someone actually tried to yank a cup away from her child.“Did somebody grab something out of your hand?
Because they tried to grab something out of my child’s hand,” the user said.One young man on camera said he was running when someone tried to take a cup out of his hand, and another woman held up her hand to reveal that she snatched up three Glinda pink cups and one Elphaba green one.As customers grabbed their cups, the nearly empty shelves were seen with no more green one and just one more batch of the pink variety.Commenters were appalled by the “insane” scene. “It’s … a cup,” one person said.“I get so embarrassed now with my 1 Stanley, I don’t want ppl to think I’m one of the crazy ones,” another wrote.“Having so many in your cart is insane.
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