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 Part 1’ Release Date Moved Up a Month to Thanksgiving 2024
thewrap.comwriting: “We are deep into production on WICKED and everyday we get more and more excited to share with u the mischief we’ve been up to.
So…We’ve decided to get it to you all a little earlier than planned. OUR NEW RELEASE Date is NOV 27th 2024! A little Thanksgiving treat!”The “Crazy Rich Asians” and “In the Heights” director is working from a screenplay adapted by the musical’s book writer Winnie Holzman and lyricist-composer Stephen Schwartz, based on the novel by Gregory Maguire.
The cast includes Ariana Grande as Glinda, Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero, and Jeff Goldblum as The Wizard.Marc Platt and David Stone are producing, with Senior Executive Vice President of Production Erik Baiers and VP of Production Development Lexi Barta overseeing the project on behalf of Universal.Chu joined the production back in February 2021, after the project had been trying to get off the ground for about a decade.
Grande and Erivo were cast in November of that year. Shooting was delayed from March to June 2022, when the production relocated from Atlanta to the U.K.“Wicked Part 2” will premiere in 2025, specific date to be announced at a later time..
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