Cynthia Erivo to Play Tupac’s Mother in Snoop Dogg Biopic
The Oscar nominee joins the cast of Craig Brewer's film, which stars Jonathan Daviss and is set for an August 2027 release.
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First reported by Movies | Hollywood Reporter, 34 min ahead of the next publisher · who breaks stories first
The story so far
9 publishers have covered this in 9 articles since 4 Nov 2026. Movies | Hollywood Reporter published first, on 4 November at 18:16 UTC; Variety followed 34 min later. The most recent article, from Deadline, appeared on 5 November at 21:34 UTC.
Outlets reporting it: Movies | Hollywood Reporter (major outlet), Variety (major outlet), Consequence, The A.V. Club, Rolling Stone, Billboard, NME, Stereogum, Deadline.
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How it unfolded
Every source in the order it published.
- Movies | Hollywood ReporterCynthia Erivo to Play Tupac Shakur’s Mother in Universal’s Snoop Dogg Biopic (Exclusive)
- VarietyCynthia Erivo to Play Tupac Shakur’s Mother in Snoop Dogg Biopic
- ConsequenceCynthia Erivo to Play Tupac’s Mom in Snoop Dogg Biopic
- The A.V. ClubCynthia Erivo to play Tupac Shakur's mother in Snoop Dogg biopic
- Rolling StoneCynthia Erivo to Play Tupac Shakur’s Mother in Snoop Dogg Biopic
- BillboardCynthia Erivo Joins Snoop Dogg Biopic As This Key Character In Tupac Shakur’s Life
- NMECynthia Erivo to play Tupac’s mum in Snoop Dogg biopic
- StereogumCynthia Erivo Cast As 2Pac’s Mother In Snoop Dogg Biopic
- Deadline‘Snoop’: Hercy Miller Will Portray His Dad Master P, Zachariah Rogers Is The D.O.C., & Tyquan Givens Set As Original Character In Universal’s Snoop Dogg Biopic
Sources
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- Cynthia Erivo to Play Tupac Shakur’s Mother in Snoop Dogg Biopic Variety ·
- Cynthia Erivo to Play Tupac Shakur’s Mother in Universal’s Snoop Dogg Biopic (Exclusive) Movies | Hollywood Reporter ·
- ‘Snoop’: Hercy Miller Will Portray His Dad Master P, Zachariah Rogers Is The D.O.C., & Tyquan Givens Set As Original Character In Universal’s Snoop Dogg Biopic Deadline
- Cynthia Erivo Cast As 2Pac’s Mother In Snoop Dogg Biopic Stereogum
- Cynthia Erivo to play Tupac’s mum in Snoop Dogg biopic NME
- Cynthia Erivo Joins Snoop Dogg Biopic As This Key Character In Tupac Shakur’s Life Billboard
In this story
- Cynthia Erivo
- Snoop Dogg
- Tupac Shakur
- Afeni Shakur
- Craig Brewer
- Universal