Melanie Thandiwe Newton OBE (/tænˈdiËweɪ/ 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).
Thandiwe Newton Biography / Wiki
| Name | Thandiwe Newton |
| Also Know | íƒ ë”” 뉴튼, ТÑнди Ðьютон, تندی نیوتن, Melanie Thandiwe Newton, Thandie Newton, å¦è¿ªÂ·ç‰›é¡¿ |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | November 06, 1972 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 50 |
| Deathday |
Thandiwe Newton Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Truth About Charlie | Regina Lambert | 2002-10-25 | Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return … |
| Besieged | Shandurai | 1998-02-05 | When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric Engli… |
| In Your Dreams | Clare | 1997-12-13 | The second of three contemporary stories showing in the Love Bites 1997 season. Clare accuses fellow-student Jamie of raping her after their first da… |
| The Prophet | Narrator | 2011-01-03 | Gary Tarn has grappled with the Lebanese poet and thinker Kahlil Gibran’s classic ‘The Prophet’ from 1923, which is famous worldwide for its main char… |
| Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon | Narrator | 2017-06-05 | The story of how one of American television’s brightest and wealthiest stars finally came to face a criminal trial for sexual assault a decade after t… |
| Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times | 2020-09-19 | Nations United is a special, first of its kind film, created by the United Nations on its 75th Anniversary and to mark five years since the adoption o… | |
| God’s Country | Sandra Guidry | 2022-09-15 | When a grieving college professor confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she’s drawn into an escalating battle of wills with c… |
| Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Ginger (voice) | When Ginger and Rocky hatch a little girl called Molly, Ginger’s happy ending seems complete. But back on the mainland, the whole of chicken-kind fa… | |
| The Chronicles of Riddick | Dame Vaako | 2004-06-11 | After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the fu… |
| Flirting | Thandiwe Adjewa | 1991-03-20 | Two freethinking teenagers – a boy and a girl – confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differen… |
| Run, Fatboy, Run | Libby | 2007-09-06 | Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back…. |
| Norbit | Kate Thomas | 2007-02-08 | A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her…. |
| Vanishing on 7th Street | Rosemary | 2010-09-11 | A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of surv… |
| The Journey of August King | Annalees | 1995-09-14 | The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does e… |
| Half of a Yellow Sun | Olanna | 2013-09-08 | An epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very … |
| It Was an Accident | Noreen Hurlock | 2000-10-27 | An ex-con gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time…. |
| All the Old Knives | Celia Harrison | 2022-04-08 | When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives, veteran operative Henry Pelham is assigned to … |
| Mission: Impossible II | Nyah Nordoff-Hall | 2000-05-24 | With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former… |
| The Pursuit of Happyness | Linda Gardner | 2006-12-14 | A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he’s poised to begin a life-changing professional career…. |
| Gridlock’d | Barbara ‘Cookie’ Cook | 1997-01-29 | After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are ha… |
| RocknRolla | Stella | 2008-09-04 | When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London’s criminal underworld pursue their shar… |
| Shade | Tiffany | 2003-05-18 | Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean … |
| Good Deeds | Lindsey | 2012-02-23 | Businessman Wesley Deeds is jolted out of his scripted life when he meets Lindsey, a single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office buildi… |
| Beloved | Beloved | 1998-10-16 | After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of “Belov… |
| Loaded | Zita | 1994-09-01 | A group of young friends convene in the countryside to shoot a horror movie. But an experiment with LSD sees normal boundaries between them collapsing… |
| Retreat | Kate | 2011-10-14 | Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a man … |
| Jefferson in Paris | Sally Hemings | 1995-03-31 | His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult… |
| Reminiscence | Emily ‘Watts’ Sanders | 2021-08-18 | Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offe… |
| The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa | The Mona Lisa | 2006-03-29 | Leonardo Da Vinci and his muse the Mona Lisa must stand up to the interrogation of their worth in our modern world…. |
| For Colored Girls | Tangie / Orange | 2010-11-05 | About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of tw… |
| The Leading Man | Hilary Rule | 1996-12-12 | Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, ‘The Hit Man’, in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a mas… |
| Huge | Kris | 2010-06-18 | A feuding double act try to make it in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy…. |
| 2012 | Laura Wilson | 2009-10-10 | Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns t… |
| The Death & Life of John F. Donovan | Audrey Newhouse | 2019-03-13 | A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as … |
| Father and Son: On Screen and Off | 2007-05-22 | A look into Will and Jaden Smith’s father and son bond on and off the screen of The Pursuit of Happyness… | |
| Solo: A Star Wars Story | Val | 2018-05-15 | Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and enco… |
| 2012: Roland Emmerich – Master of the Modern Epic | Self | 2010-03-02 | This documentary features the 2012 film’s cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the famed Disaster movie director (i.e. Roland Emmeric… |
| The End of the World: The Actor’s Perspective | Self | 2010-03-02 | A short piece that looks at the 2012 film’s ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the project…. |
| Interview with the Vampire | Yvette | 1994-11-11 | A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter…. |
| The Young Americans | Rachael Stevens | 1993-10-08 | Experienced New York Police Detective John Harris is sent to London to help a local task force investigate a series of gangster killings organized by … |
| Gringo | Bonnie Soyinka | 2018-03-08 | An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that’s about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mex… |
| Crash | Christine Thayer | 2005-05-06 | In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a… |
| W. | Condoleezza Rice | 2008-10-17 | The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith—and the critical days leadin… |
| Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream | Self | 2007-03-27 | This is a “making of” documentary for the hit film “The Pursuit of Happyness”. It chronicles a foreign director’s perspective on The American Dream, a… |
| How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | Self | 2008-10-02 | Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attra… |
Thandiwe Newton Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Liyana | Executive Producer | 2018-10-10 | A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest…. |
| President | Executive Producer | 2021-01-29 | Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The leader of the opposition MDC party, Nelson Chamisa, challenges the old guard ZANU-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, known… |
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