Cynthia Erivo

Cynthia Erivo is an acclaimed, multi-award-winning stage and screen actress, singer, and producer, whose high-profile credits include starring as Elphaba in the Wicked movies, and in The Color Purple.

Cynthia will star in Kip Williams acclaimed production of Dracula at the Noel Coward Theatre in London, playing all 23 roles, in this electrifying new adaptation that blends theatre, cinema, video and live performance.

Cynthia trained at RADA in London, and is a Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winner, as well as a three-time Oscar nominee, and a Golden Globe and SAG nominee.

Cynthia Erivo theatre credits

Cynthia’s upcoming stage roles include playing Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar at The Hollywood Bowl.

Her recent and past stage roles include The Color Purple (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre New York) – Tony Award winner; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Everyman); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Royal Festival Hall London); Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse); Dessa Rose (Trafalgar Studios London); I Can’t Sing! The X Factor Musical (London Palladium); The Color Purple (Menier Chocolate Factory London); LIFT (Soho Theatre London); Sister Act (UK Tour); The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Gielgud Theatre London); I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (Theatre Royal, Stratford East London); and Marine Parade (Brighton Festival).

Cynthia Erivo screen credits

The first Wicked movie, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, opened in November 2024 and has become a global phenomenon. Part 2, Wicked: For Good , opens in November 2025.

Cynthia is set to star in a film adaptation of Prima Facie, the West End and Broadway sensation, which she is also executive producing.

Erivo’s other recent screen credits include Drift, which she produced with her company Edith’s Daughter.

For her critically acclaimed portrayal of Aretha Franklin in National Geographic’s Emmy-winning global anthology series Genius: Aretha, Erivo was nominated for an Emmy. It was the first-ever, definitive, and only authorized scripted limited series on the life of the universally acclaimed Queen of Soul.

Erivo starred opposite Idris Elba in the Netflix feature film installment of Luther: The Fallen Sun, continuing the story of the acclaimed crime series. Erivo plays a detective who is also Luther’s nemesis while Andy Serkis is the story’s criminal villain. Luther: The Fallen Sun premiered on Netflix in March 2023.

In 2022, Erivo took on the iconic role of the Blue Fairy in Disney’s live-action retelling of Pinocchio, directed by Robert Zemeckis. She also starred in Apple’s Roar, an anthology series of darkly comic feminist fables. It was also announced that Erivo would produce and star in a biopic about Sarah Forbes Bonnetta, a 19th-century Nigerian princess who was “gifted” to Queen Victoria after being liberated from slavery.

Erivo starred in the HBO series The Outsider, which premiered in 2020. The series is based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. It follows an unorthodox investigator and a seasoned cop investigating the gruesome murder of a local boy.

In 2019, Erivo starred in Kasi Lemmons’ Harriet, bringing the legacy of Harriet Tubman to the big screen. In addition, Erivo lent her voice to the movie’s title song, “Stand Up,” which she co-wrote. “Stand Up” won Best Original Song at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Both Erivo and “Stand Up” were nominated for Academy Awards as well as Golden Globe Awards in the categories of Best Actress in a Motion Picture―Drama and Best Original Song. “Stand Up” also received a Grammy nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media. The film also garnered 10 NAACP Image Award nominations as well as African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) and Society of Composers & Lyricists Award wins.

Music credits

In addition to her illustrious acting career, Erivo is a Grammy-nominated songwriter and performer, headlining numerous sold-out shows, symphonies, and music spaces including the Kennedy Center Honors, the 2020 Academy Awards, the 2017 post-Oscars Governors Ball, and the 2017 Grammy Awards. Erivo released her debut album, Ch. 1 Vs. 1, with Verve/Universal Music Group in September 2021.

Author

Her first children’s book, titled Remember to Dream, Ebere, follows a young girl named Ebere whose mother encourages her to dream as big as possible. Erivo wrote the book as an ode to a child’s imagination, a parent’s love, and the big dreams shared by both.

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