Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 06, 1972
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Credits
79 titles
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 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
Anaconda
Claire Simons
Mufasa: The Lion King
Eshe (voice)
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Ginger (voice)
President
Executive Producer
Wednesday
Dr. Rachael Fairburn
God's Country
Sandra Guidry
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self - Guest
All the Old Knives
Celia Harrison
Human Resources
Mona (voice)
Reminiscence
Emily 'Watts' Sanders
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
Self
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
Narrator (voice)
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
Journalist
The Big Narstie Show
Self
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Val
Gringo
Bonnie Soyinka
Family Feud
Joan
Big Mouth
Mona (voice)
Liyana
Executive Producer
Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon
Self - Narrator (voice)
Westworld
Maeve Millay
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
The Slap
Aisha
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Self
Half of a Yellow Sun
Olanna
Rogue
Grace Travis
Line of Duty
DCI Roz Huntley
Good Deeds
Lindsey
Retreat
Kate
The Prophet
Narrator
For Colored Girls
Tangie / Orange
Vanishing on 7th Street
Rosemary
Huge
Kris
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
Self
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
Self
2012
Laura Wilson
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Special Guest
W.
Condoleezza Rice
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Self
RocknRolla
Stella
Run Fatboy Run
Libby
Father and Son: On Screen and Off
Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream
Self
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Norbit
Kate Thomas
The Pursuit of Happyness
Linda