![]() Also in 2006, Newton performed on radio in a pantomime version of Cinderella. She played Chris Gardner's wife, Linda Gardner, in The Pursuit of Happyness. She won a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for her role in Crash. In 2004, she also appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick and Crash. She reprised the role for the series finale in 2009. īetween 20, Newton played Makemba "Kem" Likasu, love interest of John Carter on the American television series ER. Her next role was in the low-budget film It Was an Accident, written by her husband, screenwriter Ol Parker. Newton starred as Nyah Nordoff-Hall, again opposite Cruise, in Mission: Impossible 2. The film also starred Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. Next she played in Jonathan Demme's drama Beloved (1998), based on Toni Morrison's novel, in which she played the title character, the ghost of a young slave girl whose mother kills her to save her from slavery. Newton appeared in the Merchant Ivory production of Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemings. Career Īfter making her film debut in the coming of age comedy-drama Flirting (1991), Newton portrayed the slave "Yvette" in the Brad Pitt/ Tom Cruise film Interview with the Vampire (1994). Between 19, Newton studied at Downing College, Cambridge, where she obtained a degree in social anthropology. She studied dance at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Newton was raised in London and Penzance. I was an anomaly." She began dropping the letter w in "Thandiwe", leaving it as "Thandie", pronounced / ˈ t æ n d i/ TAN-dee in English. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. Newton remarked at a TED conference, "From about the age of five, I was aware that I didn't fit. She attended St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School. ![]() When she was three years old, the family moved to England, settling in Penzance, Cornwall, so her father could help run his family's antiques business. Thandiwe is a name of Nguni origin, meaning "beloved". Her birthplace has been incorrectly reported to be Zambia in some sources, but she has confirmed in interviews that she was born in London. Her family had been living in Zambia and later returned there, where her younger brother was born. Newton was born in Westminster, London, England, to Nyasha, a Zimbabwean member of a Shona chiefly family, and Nick Newton, an English laboratory technician and artist. She would henceforth be known and credited as Thandiwe Newton, her real name, beginning with Reminiscence (2021). 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. 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. Since 2016, Newton has played a 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. (2008), Laura Wilson in 2012 (2009), Tangie Adrose in For Colored Girls (2010), and Val in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). 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. 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 has received various awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for two Golden Globe Awards. Melanie Thandiwe Newton OBE ( / t æ n ˈ d iː w eɪ/ tan- DEE-way born 6 November 1972) is an English actress.
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