It's been almost a year since Cynthia Erivo first stepped into Harriet Tubman's shoes in Harriet—a biopic about the historical heroine who escaped slavery and freed hundreds of slaves via the Underground Railroad. And it's almost a year, too, since Erivo first felt the wrath of Twitter. As a British woman of Nigerian…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first trailer for new podcast Carrier, whose voice cast is led by Widows and Bad Times at the El Royale star Cynthia Erivo. Erivo also co-produces the podcast from burgeoning Los Angeles audio firm QCode, which was also behind the hit Rami Malek podcast Blackout.
Tony Award winner Erivo (The Color P…
EXCLUSIVE: Widows and Bad Times At The El Royale star Cynthia Erivo is to lead voice cast on, and co-produce, the upcoming podcast Carrier from burgeoning LA audio firm QCode, which recently launched with hit Rami Malek pod Blackout.
Erivo stars in the scripted thriller with Lamorne Morris (New Girl), Martin Starr (Sil…
Black Panther star Letitia Wright, Widows star Cynthia Erivo, Sorry To Bother You‘s Lakeith Stanfield, American Animals actor Barry Keoghan and Wild Rose lead Jessie Buckley have been nominated for BAFTA’s EE Rising Star Award.
The nominees, revealed this morning at BAFTA’s London headquarters, were selected…
Don't call Steve McQueen predictable. The British artist and director may have made three previous films that steered closer to the arthouse end of the market—Hunger, Shame and 12 Years a Slave—but Widows, an expansive heist movie he co-wrote with Gillian Flynn based on the 1980s TV show created by Lynda La Plante…
Steve McQueen's female-centric heist movie Widows might be packed with familiar and accomplished women like Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki and Michelle Rodriguez, but magnetic breakout Cynthia Erivo still jumped off the screen in her first ever feature. Erivo is a storied stage actress, and has already won an Emmy, a…
Focus Features has set production on Harriet, which tells the story of heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman, directed by Kasi Lemmons from a screenplay she co-wrote with Gregory Allen Howard.
Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award-winner Cynthia Erivo, who recently stars in Steve McQueen’s Widows which made its TIFF premiere last…
EXCLUSIVE: Tony award winning actress Cynthia Erivo has been tapped as the title character in Macro/New Balloon’s film Harriet, the biopic on famous abolitionist and warrior Harriet Tubman. Seith Mann attached to direct from a script by Gregory Allen Howard.
Tubman is an American hero who escaped the shackles of…
Producers this evening informed the cast of The Color Purple that the show, which won the 2016 Tony Award for best musical revival, will play its final performance on January 8 after 449 regular and 33 preview performances at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. A North American tour of the production is set to go out in…
