Actress Thandiwe Newton

Thandiwe Newton
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Melanie Thandiwe Newton OBE (/tænˈdiːweɪ/ tan-DEE-way; born 6 November 1972) is an English actress. Newton has received various awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for two Golden Globe Awards. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to film and to charity. Newton is known for starring roles such as the title character in Beloved (1998), Nyah Nordoff-Hall in Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), Tiffany in Shade (2003), Dame Vaako in The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Christine in Crash (2004), for which she received a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Linda in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Libby in Run Fatboy Run (2007), Stella in RockNRolla (2008), Condoleezza Rice in W. (2008), Laura Wilson in 2012 (2009), Tangie Adrose in For Colored Girls (2010), and Val in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). Since 2016, Newton has played the sentient android, the madam Maeve Millay, in the HBO science fiction-western series Westworld, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and two Critics Choice Awards, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award, Saturn Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2017, she portrayed DCI Roz Huntley in the BBC drama series Line of Duty, which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. In April 2021, Newton, having been widely known as Thandie Newton for 30 years because of a misspelling of her first name in the credits of her first film, announced she was finally correcting this and would henceforth be known and credited as Thandiwe Newton, her real name, beginning with Reminiscence (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Thandiwe Newton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of birth
London, England, UK London, England, UK
Date of birth
6th November 1972
Movies that starred Thandiwe Newton (15 in total)
Mufasa: The Lion King poster

Mufasa: The Lion King [2024]

Eshe (voice)
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget poster

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget [2023]

Ginger (voice)
Reminiscence poster

Reminiscence [2021]

Emily 'Watts' Sanders
Solo: A Star Wars Story poster

Solo: A Star Wars Story [2018]

Val
Gringo poster

Gringo [2018]

Bonnie Soyinka
2012 poster

2012 [2009]

Laura Wilson
Norbit poster

Norbit [2007]

Kate Thomas
Run, Fatboy, Run poster

Run, Fatboy, Run [2007]

Libby
The Pursuit of Happyness poster

The Pursuit of Happyness [2006]

Linda Gardner
Crash poster

Crash [2005]

Christine Thayer
The Chronicles of Riddick poster

The Chronicles of Riddick [2004]

Dame Vaako
The Truth About Charlie poster

The Truth About Charlie [2002]

Regina Lambert
Mission: Impossible II poster

Mission: Impossible II [2000]

Nyah Nordoff-Hall
Gridlock'd poster

Gridlock'd [1997]

Barbara 'Cookie' Cook
Interview with the Vampire poster

Interview with the Vampire [1994]

Yvette
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