Cynthia Erivo Wins Kirk Douglas Award
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* Cynthia Erivo received the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in film at the santa Barbara International Film festival (SBIFF). The event was a black-tie gala to raise funds for the festival’s educational initiatives.
* Erivo feels her career is still developing. She stated she doesn’t believe she’s even in the middle of it, viewing the award as a “pit stop” along the way.
* She is likely to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role as elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) in Wicked: For Good. This would be her second consecutive year wiht a potential Oscar nomination.
* Erivo was seated with Wicked: For Good director Jon M. Chu and producer Marc Platt during the evening.
* Roger Durling,SBIFF executive director,described Erivo as “one of the most incandescent lights working today” and suggested Kirk Douglas would have enjoyed her company.
* Erivo’s screen career is relatively recent, spanning only a decade, despite her significant accomplishments.
* Her career highlights include:
* A Tony Award-winning performance in The Colour Purple (Broadway revival).
* Roles in Widows, Bad Times at the El Royale, harriet (Oscar nominations for acting and songwriting – a feat shared with only barbra Streisand, Lady Gaga, and Mary J. Blige), Genius: Aretha (Emmy nomination), Luther: The Fallen Son, Pinocchio, Poker Face (Emmy nomination for playing five characters in one episode), and Wicked: For Good.
* Mike McGee assembled a montage of erivo’s performances for the ceremony.
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