Thandiwe Newton

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1972-11-06 (53 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Thandiwe Newton

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 ...

Acting

2000

2005

Crash

as Christine Thayer

2008

W.

as Condoleezza Rice

2004

2022

God's Country

as Sandra Guidry

1991

Flirting

as Thandiwe Adjewa

2007

1993

The Young Americans

as Rachael Stevens

2007

Norbit

as Kate Thomas

1997

Gridlock'd

as Barbara 'Cookie' Cook

2002

The Truth About Charlie

as Regina Lambert

2008

RocknRolla

as Stella

2009

2012

as Laura Wilson

2003

Shade

as Tiffany

2012

Good Deeds

as Lindsey

2010

For Colored Girls

as Tangie / Orange

1998

Besieged

as Shandurai

1996

The Leading Man

as Hilary Rule

1998

Beloved

as Beloved

2023

1994

Loaded

as Zita

2011

Retreat

as Kate

2000

It Was an Accident

as Noreen Hurlock

1995

Jefferson in Paris

as Sally Hemings

1991

Pirate Prince

as Becky Newton

2024

Mufasa: The Lion King

as Eshe (voice)

2010

Huge

as Kris

2018

Gringo

as Bonnie Soyinka

1997

2011

The Prophet

as Narrator

2017

Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2021

Reminiscence

as Emily 'Watts' Sanders

2022

All the Old Knives

as Celia Harrison

2018

Production

2023

President

as Executive Producer

2017

Liyana

as Executive Producer

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