Thandiwe Newton
Acting
- Born:
- 1972-11-06
- Place of birth:
- London, England, UK
Biography
Melanie Thandiwe Newton OBE (born 6 November 1972), formerly credited as Thandie Newton, is a British actress. 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), 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), Maeve Millay in Westworld (2016–2022), Roz Huntley in Line of Duty (2017), and Val in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). Newton has received various awards, including an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and two Critics' Choice Awards, in addition to nominations for two Golden Globe Awards, a Saturn Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to film and charity. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thandiwe Newton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Wanted Man
Anaconda
Mufasa: The Lion King
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Wednesday
God's Country
The Jennifer Hudson Show
All the Old Knives
Human Resources
Reminiscence
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
The Big Narstie Show
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Gringo
Family Feud
Big Mouth
Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon
Westworld
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Slap
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Half of a Yellow Sun
Rogue
Line of Duty
Good Deeds
Retreat
The Prophet
For Colored Girls
Vanishing on 7th Street
Huge
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2012
RuPaul's Drag Race
W.
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
RocknRolla
Run Fatboy Run
Father and Son: On Screen and Off
Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream
The Graham Norton Show
Norbit
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa
Crash
American Dad!
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Parkinson
The Chronicles of Riddick
Shade
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Truth About Charlie
It Was an Accident
Mission: Impossible II
Beloved
Besieged
In Your Dreams
Elle Style Awards
Gridlock'd
The Leading Man
The Daily Show
The Journey of August King
Jefferson in Paris
Interview with the Vampire
ER
Loaded
The Young Americans
Pirate Prince
Flirting
The Word
Cry to Heaven
First Day on Earth