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’ Fans Sign Viral Petition Begging for James Corden Not to Be Cast in Film Adaptation
thewrap.comflooded with joyous reactions to the announcement that Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo will star in the film adaptation of the musical “Wicked.”But fans were equally quick to express who they did not want to see anywhere near the Emerald City — “Late Late Show” host and perennial movie musical trouper James Corden.A Change.org petition created the following day titled “Keep James Corden out of Wicked the movie” has gathered 36,000 signatures and counting.The demands of the petition, written by Mikel Miller and addressed to Universal Pictures is clear: “James Corden in no way shape or form should be in or near the production of Wicked the movie.
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