Inside life of Wicked's Cynthia Erivo from critically-acclaimed roles to dating history

Cynthia Erivo has taken connected the iconic relation of Elphaba Thropp for the movie Wicked which releases successful cinemas worldwide this Friday

Cynthia Erivo has been successful the headlines for each of the close reasons arsenic of precocious acknowledgment to her upcoming relation successful the movie Wicked, which releases successful cinemas this Friday (November 22).

No uncertainty she'll amusement disconnected her astonishing acting chops erstwhile again arsenic the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba Thropp arsenic she adds yet different iconic relation to her filmography.

As we expect the movie's release, let's instrumentality a peek into Cynthia's beingness from gaining designation for her performances to who she's dating...

Career and accolades

Cynthia gained designation for starring successful the Broadway revival of The Color Purple from 2015 to 2017 for which she won galore accolades including the Tony Award for Best Actress successful a Musical.

After her unthinkable vocation connected stage, she turned her attraction to films and starred successful movies including Widows, Bad Times astatine the El Royale and arsenic The Blue Fairy successful Pinocchio.

She made her tv debut successful 2015 successful British sitcom Chewing Gum earlier going connected to prima successful intelligence thriller bid The Outsider successful 2020.

The pursuing twelvemonth she portrayed the icon Aretha Franklin successful anthology bid called Genius for which she received a information for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress.

Dating history

Cynthia has ever kept her relationships distant from the spotlight but has been reportedly dating actress, shaper and screenwriter Lena Waithe.

Lena antecedently revealed the brace met successful May 2018 astatine the Met Gala and Cynthia said successful an Instagram station that it was a "meeting of minds" erstwhile they archetypal met.

In 2013, the Broadway prima was romantically linked with British histrion Dean-Johnson Wilson who she is said to person met erstwhile they worked unneurotic connected the theatre accumulation Sister Act. They made their reddish carpet successful 2016 but for reasons chartless they reportedly divided successful 2017.

Music

The histrion released her debut medium Ch, 1 Vs. 1 successful 2021 which peaked astatine fig 77 successful the US medium charts.

She released 2 singles from the medium that year, titled The Good and Glowing Up but some failed to chart. In 2018, featured connected a opus called God Only Knows with John Legend which charted astatine fig 20 successful the US R&B charts.

Her archetypal opus arsenic a pb creator that appeared successful the euphony charts was from the Beyond The Lights movie soundtrack.

Wicked releases successful cinemas this Friday