Cynthia Erivo’s ~Wicked~ Net Worth: How the Actress Makes Money From Broadway to the Big Screen

The film adaptation of the popular Broadway show Wicked is about to take the world by storm, and Cynthia Erivo’s bank account is likely about to have a big boost. With the movie premiering just before the holiday season kicks off, fans are curious about Cynthia’s net worth.

What Is Cynthia Erivo’s Net Worth?

Cynthia is sitting pretty with a net worth of $3 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. The England native reportedly earned $1 million for her role as Elphaba Thropp in Wicked.

How Does Cynthia Erivo Make Money?

Most of Cynthia’s earnings come from her time in the entertainment industry. She’s an accomplished singer and actress who first gained recognition for her role in the Broadway production of The Color Purple as Celie Harris. She began her run in the show in 2015 and the following year she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

From there, Cynthia landed roles in movies like Bad Times at the El Royale and Widows. Plus, she played Aretha Franklin in the television series Genius and she did some voice acting for a role in the animated film The Boss Baby: Back in Business. Cynthia’s role as Harriet Tubman in the 2019 biopic Harriet really put her on the map as an up-and-coming musical talent to keep an eye out for and earned her two separate Academy Award nominations.

Cynthia Erivo and the Controversy Over a Fan-Made ‘Wicked’ Poster

Before Wicked even made it to the big screen, fans created content of their own regarding the film. The poster promoting the movie showed Cynthia staring at the camera as her costar Ariana Grande whispered in her ear. However, the original poster for the Broadway show featured the character of Elphaba’s eyes covered with her witch’s hat. When a person edited the film poster to look more like the original, Cynthia slammed the work in a rant via her Instagram Stories.

“This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen, equal to that awful AI of us fighting, equal to people posing the question ‘is your ***** green,’” Cynthia wrote above the fan-made creation on October 16, 2024. “None of this is funny. None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us.”

She continued, “The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real life human being, who chose to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer … because, without words we communicate with our eyes. Our poster is an homage, not an imitation, to edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me. And that is just deeply hurtful.”

Cynthia also shared a photo of the original illustration for the Broadway version of Wicked in a following slide and added, “Let me put this right here, to remind you and cleanse your palette.”

The Drift actress later addressed her reaction to the poster and said that she was “really protective” of the movie and her role as Elphaba.

“I’m passionate about it and I know the fans are passionate about it and I think for me it was just like a human moment of wanting to protect little Elphaba, and it was like a human moment,” Cynthia told Entertainment Tonight at the 2024 CFDA Fashion awards on October 28, 2024. “I probably should have called my friends, but it’s fine.”