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Thandiwe Newton

Thandiwe Newton

Birthday: 1972-11-06 | Place of Birth: London, England, UK

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
All the Old Knives

as    Celia Harrison

2022
God's Country

as    Sandra Guidry

2021
Reminiscence

as    Emily 'Watts' Sanders

2019
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

as    Audrey Newhouse

2018
Gringo

as    Bonnie Soyinka

2018
Solo: A Star Wars Story

as    Val

2016
Westworld

as    Maeve Millay

2015
The Slap

as    Aisha

2014
Half of a Yellow Sun

as    Olanna

2012
Good Deeds

as    Lindsey

2011
Retreat

as    Kate

2011
Vanishing on 7th Street

as    Rosemary

2010
For Colored Girls

as    Tangie / Orange

2009
2012

as    Laura Wilson

2008
W.

as    Condoleezza Rice

2008
RocknRolla

as    Stella

2007
Norbit

as    Kate Thomas

2007
Run, Fatboy, Run

as    Libby

2006
The Pursuit of Happyness

as    Linda

2005
Crash

as    Christine Thayer

2004
The Chronicles of Riddick

as    Dame Vaako

2003
Shade

as    Tiffany

2002
The Truth About Charlie

as    Regina Lambert

2000
Mission: Impossible II

as    Nyah Nordoff-Hall

1999
Besieged

as    Shandurai

1998
Beloved

as    Beloved

1997
Gridlock'd

as    Barbara 'Cookie' Cook