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’ Becomes The Highest Grossing Movie Based On A Broadway Musical At Domestic Box Office
deadline.comDuring the course of a record Thanksgiving weekend, Universal’s Wicked: Part One has become the highest grossing movie ever at the domestic box office based on a Broadway musical.
Through yesterday, the Jon M. Chu directed, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande starring feature counts $214.3M in the midst of its second weekend, defeating the lifetime gross of Paramount’s 1978 classic, Grease.
By Sunday, Wicked is expected to reach just under $263M. Worldwide with $358M and counting by Sunday, Wicked will stand as the fourth highest grossing movie based on a Broadway musical after Mamma Mia! ($611.2M), Les Miserables ($442.7M) and Grease ($396.2M).
Wicked was always perceived to be chiefly domestic-driven at the B.O.With a running time of 2 hours and 40 minutes to Moana 2‘s 100 minutes, some box office sources believed that Wicked would hit a buzzsaw in the Dwayne Johnson-Auli’i Cravalho sequel, but the two heavy female demo movies (70%-plus) co-existed wonderfully.
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