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Melanie Thandiwe Newton OBE (/tænˈdiːweɪ/ tan-DEE-way;[1][2] born 6 November 1972), formerly credited as Thandie Newton, 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.[3]

Thandiwe Newton OBE
Newton at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Melanie Thandiwe Newton (1972-11-06) 6 November 1972 (age 49) Westminster, London, England
Other names	Thandie Newton
Alma mater	Downing College, Cambridge
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1991–present
Spouse	Ol Parker ​ ​ (m. 1998; sep. 2022)​
Children	3, including Nico Parker

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 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. 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.

Early life

Newton was born in Westminster, London, England, to Nyasha, a Zimbabwean member of a Shona chiefly family,[4][5] and Nick Newton, an English[6] laboratory technician and artist. Her family had been living in Zambia and later returned there, where her younger brother was born.[7][8] Her birthplace has been incorrectly reported to be Zambia in some sources,[9] but she has confirmed in interviews that she was born in London.[10][11] Thandiwe is a name of Nguni origin, meaning "beloved".[12][13]

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.[7] She attended St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School.[14] Newton remarked at a TED conference, "From about the age of five, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly."[15] She began dropping the letter w in "Thandiwe",[4] leaving it as "Thandie", pronounced /ˈtændi/ TAN-dee in English.[5]

Newton was raised in London and Penzance. She studied dance at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Between 1992 and 1995, Newton studied at Downing College, Cambridge, where she obtained a degree in social anthropology.[16]

Career

Newton made her film debut in the coming of age comedy-drama Flirting (1991). She was credited as "Thandie Newton" due to a misspelling of her first name, and subsequently continued to use this name professionally.[4] She then portrayed the slave "Yvette" in the Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise film Interview with the Vampire (1994). Newton appeared in the Merchant Ivory production of Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemings. 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. The film also starred Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. Newton starred as Nyah Nordoff-Hall, again opposite Cruise, in Mission: Impossible 2. Her next role was in the low-budget film It Was an Accident, written by her husband, screenwriter Ol Parker.[17]

Between 2003 and 2005, Newton played Makemba "Kem" Likasu, love interest of John Carter on the American television series ER. She reprised the role for the series finale in 2009. In 2004, she also appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick and Crash. She won a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for her role in Crash. She played Chris Gardner's wife, Linda Gardner, in The Pursuit of Happyness. Also in 2006, Newton performed on radio in a pantomime version of Cinderella.[18]

In 2007, Newton co-starred with Eddie Murphy as his love interest in the comedy Norbit. She played opposite Simon Pegg as his ex-girlfriend in the 2008 comedy Run Fatboy Run. She next portrayed Condoleezza Rice, US National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State in W., Oliver Stone's biography of President George W. Bush. The film was released in October 2008.

Newton was an introducer at Wembley Stadium on 7 July 2007, for the UK leg of Live Earth. She was due to introduce former US Vice President Al Gore to the concert, but he was delayed, leaving Newton to tell jokes in an attempt to entertain the audience.[19] Newton next portrayed fictional US First Daughter Laura Wilson in 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released 13 November 2009.

In July 2011, Newton delivered a TED talk on "Embracing otherness, embracing myself." She discussed finding her "otherness" as a child growing up in two distinct cultures, and as an actress playing many different selves.[20] In 2012, she starred alongside Tyler Perry in the romantic drama film Good Deeds. She was also in Perry's movie For Colored Girls (2010), adapted from Ntozake Shange's 1975 original choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. In 2013, Newton starred in Rogue, the first original drama series for DirecTV's Audience Network.[21] She left Rogue during the third season. In 2015, she starred in the US miniseries The Slap.

In 2016, Newton began portraying Maeve Millay in HBO science fiction drama series Westworld, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, among other accolades. In 2017, she served as a narrator for the documentary entitled Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon, an exposé on the sexual assault charges laid against Cosby, which aired on BBC One. In the same year, Newton played DCI Roseanne "Roz" Huntley in the fourth season of BBC One's Line of Duty, a role for which she received a BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Actress.

Newton appeared as Val in the Star Wars film Solo: A Star Wars Story, which was released in May 2018.

In a 2021 interview, Newton announced that her professional name had been misspelled for 30 years and she was finally correcting this, and would henceforth be known and credited as "Thandiwe Newton",[4][2] beginning with Reminiscence (2021), and would have corrections applied to her past performance credits.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Newton married English writer, director, and producer Ol Parker in 1998. They have three children: two daughters, including Nico, and a son born in 2014. All three were home births.[22] She is vegan and was named PETA's "Sexiest Vegan of 2014" in the UK.[23]

In 2006, Newton contributed a foreword to We Wish: Hopes and Dreams of Cornwall's Children, a book of children's writing published in aid of the NSPCC. In it, she wrote about her childhood memories of growing up in Cornwall, and the way in which the county's cultural heritage made it easy for her to "enrich every situation with layers of magic and meaning".[24]

In 2007, Newton sold her near-new BMW X5 and replaced it with a Toyota Prius after Greenpeace stuck a "This gas-guzzling 4x4 is causing climate change" sticker on her BMW.[25] In 2008, Newton visited poverty-stricken Mali, describing it as a "humbling experience". She visited the village of Nampasso in the Ségou Region of the country.[26] In 2013, Newton led the One Billion Rising flash mob in London, for an end to violence, and for justice and gender equality.[27]

David Schwimmer (who directed Run Fatboy Run) called the actress "the queen of practical jokes".[28] Newton has expressed an affinity for Buddhism.[29][30]

In 2016, Newton stated she had been the victim of a director who repeatedly showed his friends a video of her in a sexually graphic audition which she made as a teenager.[31][32] Newton cited this experience as being a part of why she had taken the Westworld role, which involved substantial nudity. This role reflected experiences of survivors of sexual abuse while also asking moral questions about the meaning of humanity and what it means to be humane.[32] In 2018, Newton said she was disappointed not to have been invited to participate in Time's Up, a movement against sexual harassment, considering that she had been "ostracised" for having spoken out about alleged sexual abuse by a director.[33]

Newton was ranked one of the best-dressed women in 2018 by fashion website Net-a-Porter.[34] Later that year, it was announced that Newton was included in the 2019 edition of the Powerlist, ranking the 100 most influential Black Britons.[35]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Flirting	Thandiwe Adjewa
1993	The Young Americans	Rachael Stevens
1994	Loaded	Zita
	Interview with the Vampire	Yvette
1995	Jefferson in Paris	Sally Hemings
	The Journey of August King	Annalees Williamsburg
1996	The Leading Man	Hilary Rule
1997	Gridlock'd	Barbara "Cookie" Cook
1998	Besieged	Shandurai	Nominated – Black Reel Award for Best Actress
	Beloved	Beloved	Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
2000	Mission: Impossible 2	Nyah Nordoff-Hall	Nominated – Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favourite Female – Newcomer Nominated – Empire Award for Best British Actress Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress
	It Was an Accident	Noreen Hurlock
2002	The Truth About Charlie	Regina Lambert	Nominated – Black Reel Award for Best Actress Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
2003	Shade	Tiffany
2004	The Chronicles of Riddick	Dame Vaako
	Crash	Christine Thayer	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Empire Award for Best Actress Hollywood Film Festival Award for Ensemble of the Year London Film Critics Circle Award for British Supporting Actress of the Year Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble Cast Nominated – BET Award for Best Actress Nominated – Black Movie Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated – Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Cast Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
2006	The Pursuit of Happyness	Linda	Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
2007	Norbit	Kate Thomas
	Run Fatboy Run	Libby
2008	RocknRolla	Stella
	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People	Herself
	W.	Condoleezza Rice
2009	2012	Laura Wilson
2010	Huge	Kris
	Vanishing on 7th Street	Rosemary
	For Colored Girls	Tangie Adrose	Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble Nominated – Black Reel Award for Best Actress
2011	Retreat	Kate Kennedy
2012	Good Deeds	Lindsey Wakefield
2013	Half of a Yellow Sun	Olanna
2018	Gringo	Bonnie Soyinka
	Solo: A Star Wars Story	Val
	The Death & Life of John F. Donovan	Audrey Newhouse
2021	Reminiscence	Emily "Watts" Sanders
2022	God's Country	Sandra Guidry
	All the Old Knives	Celia Harrison
2023	Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget	Ginger (voice)	In production; replacing Julia Sawalha

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Pirate Prince	Becky Newton	Television film
1997	In Your Dreams	Clare	Television film
2003–2009	ER	Makemba "Kem" Likasu	Recurring role
2006	American Dad!	Makeva (voice)	Episode: "Camp Refoogee"
2013–2015	Rogue	Grace Travis	Main role
2015	The Slap	Aisha	Main role
2016–present	Westworld	Maeve Millay	Main role Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (2016, 2018) Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (2018) Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2016, 2018) Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (2017, 2020) Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series (2016) Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2016) Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television (2016)
2017	Line of Duty	DCI Roseanne "Roz" Huntley	Main role Nominated – British Academy Television Award for Best Actress
2018	The Big Narstie Show	Herself	Season 1, Episode 2
2019–present	Big Mouth	Mona the Hormone Monstress (voice)	Recurring role; 12 episodes
2020	RuPaul's Drag Race	Herself	2 episodes (season 12): guest judge
2022	Human Resources	Mona the Hormone Monstress (voice)	Recurring role

Music video

Year	Artist	Song	Ref.
2017	Jay-Z featuring Beyoncé	"Family Feud"

References

External links

• Thandiwe Newton at IMDb 
• Thandiwe Newton on Twitter
• Thandiwe Newton on Instagram

На других языках

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- [en] Thandiwe Newton

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[es] Thandie Newton

Thandiwe Adjewa Newton (Londres, Inglaterra; 6 de noviembre de 1972), conocida como Thandie Newton (hasta 2020)[1] y Thandiwe Newton, es una actriz británica de cine y televisión. Es famosa por su trabajo en películas como Beloved, Mision Imposible II y Crash y por su papel de Maeve en la serie de HBO, Westworld.

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[ru] Ньютон, Тэндиве

Ме́лани Тэнди́ве (Тэ́нди) Нью́тон (англ. Melanie Thandiwe «Thandie» Newton; 6 ноября 1972 (1972-11-06)) — английская актриса, известная по ролям в фильмах «Миссия невыполнима 2», «Столкновение», «В погоне за счастьем» и сериале «Мир Дикого запада».

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