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.
‘Wicked 2’ Moves Up 2025 Release Date, Will No Longer Open Against ‘Zootopia 2’
variety.comEthan Shanfeld “Wicked 2″ has changed its release date, bumping up five days to open Nov. 21, 2025. The sequel was previously slated for Nov.
26, 2025, which would have put it up against Disney’s “Zootopia 2.” In July, the first “Wicked” underwent a very similar schedule change, moving from Nov.
27 to Nov. 22 (after an initially planned Christmas opening). That shift put the movie musical ahead of Disney’s “Moana 2,” but “Wicked” now shares a release date with “Gladiator II.” Universal’s two-part film adaptation of the Broadway musical stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande star in the film as Elphaba (aka the Wicked Witch of the West) and Glinda (the Good), who form an unlikely friendship that is torn apart by external forces.
The cast also includes Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero, Michelle Yeoh as Shiz University headmaster Madame Morrible, Ethan Slater as Boq and Bowen Yang as Pfannee.
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