CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cynthia Erivo, who’s starring within the hit musical “Wicked,” was named Tuesday because the 2025 Lady of the Yr by Harvard College’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
The theater group, which dates to 1844 and claims to be the world’s third-oldest nonetheless working, mentioned Erivo will obtain her Pudding Pot award at a celebratory roast Feb. 5. Afterward, she is going to attend a efficiency of Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 176th manufacturing, “101 Damnations.” Actor Jon Hamm, who got here to fame starring as advert govt Don Draper on the AMC collection “Mad Men,” is the 2025 Man of the Yr. He’ll obtain his Pudding Pot Jan. 31.
“We are holding space for Cynthia Erivo’s arrival,” Man and Lady of the Yr Occasions Coordinator Hannah Frazer mentioned in an announcement. “We’re sweeping out our broomstick closets and prepping some wicked smart humor as we eagerly await her in February. Before she flies off with her Pudding Pot, she’ll have to work a little magic to earn it.”
Together with starirng within the smash hit musical, the British entertainer is a two-time Oscar nominee and an Emmy Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award winner.
Erivo burst onto the scene together with her sensible efficiency within the Broadway revival of “The Color Purple.” profitable her the 2016 Tony for greatest actress in a musical. She carried out songs from the play on the “Today” present, incomes the Daytime Emmy for excellent music efficiency in a daytime program. And the present’s soundtrack received greatest musical theater album on the 2017 Grammys.
Final yr, Erivo starred in and produced “Drift,” which follows a younger Liberian refugee who has escaped her war-torn nation to a Greek island. In 2021, Erivo was nominated for an Emmy for her portrayal of Aretha Franklin within the Nationwide Geographic collection “Genius: Aretha.”
Yearly since 1951, the Pudding has bestowed its Lady of the Yr award on actors together with Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson and Annette Bening.