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' Set Photos Show Cynthia Erivo & Her Stunt Double Flying as Elphaba!
justjared.comWe have more Wicked set photos, and our first showing Cynthia Erivo all green-ifyed to portray Elphaba!
The photos, taken on Sunday (April 30) at Hankley Common (a nature preserve in England), show Cynthia, her stunt double, and other crew members filming a flying scene on the Yellow Brick Road.
Fans of the Wicked musical might notice a few key features of these pictures. If you’ve seen Wicked on Broadway or in regional productions around the world, you’ll know that Elphaba is first introduced to her classic “Wicked Witch” hat by Glinda (played by Ariana Grande in the film) during the song “Dancing Through Life” in Act 1.
Elphaba doesn’t fly until her show-stopping number, “Defying Gravity,” which comes at the end of Act 1 in the musical. So it would appear, since Elphaba is flying and wearing her signature hat, that they’re filming a scene well into the second act of the musical!
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