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Thandie Newton

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Thandie Newton
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Newton at the 10 Downing Street visit in 2010.
Born6 November 1972 (age 43)
London, England[1]
NationalityEnglish
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materCambridge University
OccupationActress
Years active1991–present
Spouse(s)Ol Parker (m. 1998)
Children3
Thandiwe "Thandie" Newton (born 6 November 1972) is an English actress.[2][3] She has appeared in several British and American films, and is known for roles such as Linda in The Pursuit of Happyness, Nyah Nordoff-Hall in Mission: Impossible II and Christine in Crash, for which she received a number of awards, including a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Early life[edit]

Newton was born in London, England, the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean health-care worker, and Nick Newton, an English[4] laboratory technician and artist.[5] Her birthplace has been incorrectly reported to beZambia in some biographies,[6] but she has confirmed in interviews that she was born in London.[7][8][9] The name "Thandiwe" means "beloved"[10] in Ndebele, Zulu, Xhosa or siSwati, and "Thandie" is pronounced /ˈtændi/in English. According to Newton, her mother is a Shona princess.[11]
Regarding her childhood, Newton remarked at a TED conference: "From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly."[12]Newton was brought up in London and Penzance, Cornwall, she studied dance at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Newton grew up as an atheist.[13] Between 1992 and 1995, Newton went to Downing College, Cambridge, where she studied social anthropology. She graduated with a 2:1.[14]
At 16, she began a six-year relationship with the Australian film director John Duigan,[15] who subsequently cast her in the film Flirting, a sequel to Duigan's 1987 film The Year My Voice Broke, starring Noah Taylor.

Career[edit]

After the film Flirting (1991), Newton played a maid in the Brad Pitt film Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), which also starred Tom Cruise. Next, Newton appeared in the Merchant Ivoryproduction of Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemings, this was followed by Jonathan Demme's horror drama Beloved (1998), in which she played the title character, a mentally handicapped young woman. The film starredOprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. Newton then played the character Nyah Hall, again opposite Cruise, in Mission: Impossible II. This was followed by a low-budget film, written by her scriptwriter husband Oliver Parker, It Was an Accident.[16]
Newton at the 2007 BAFTAs
Between 2003 and 2005, Newton played Makemba "Kem" Likasu, the love interest, and later on wife of Dr. John Carter on the American television series ER. She reprised the role once more for the series finale in 2009. In 2004 she also appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick and Crash. Newton won a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for her role in Crash. She also played Chris Gardner's wife, Linda Gardner, in The Pursuit of Happyness. Also in 2006, Newton appeared on the radio in a pantomime version of Cinderella.[17]
In 2007, Newton co-starred with Eddie Murphy in the comedy Norbit, as his love interest, and then opposite Simon Pegg as his ex-girlfriend in the 2008 comedy Run Fatboy Run. Newton next portrayed U.S. National Security Advisor-turned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in W., Oliver Stone's film biography of President George W. Bush. The film was released 17 October 2008.
Newton was an introducer at Wembley Stadium on 7 July 2007 for the UK leg of Live Earth. She was due to introduce Al Gore to the concert, but he was delayed, leaving Newton to tell jokes in an attempt to entertain the audience.[18]Newton next portrayed the United States President's First Daughter Laura Wilson in 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released 13 November 2009.
In July 2011, Newton delivered a TED Talk on "Embracing otherness, embracing myself". In it, she discussed finding her "otherness" as a child growing up in two distinct cultures, and as an actress playing with many different selves.[19] In 2012, she starred alongside Tyler Perry in the romantic drama film Good Deeds. In 2013, Thandie starred in Rogue, the first original drama series for DirecTV's Audience Network.[20] She left Rogue during the third season. In 2015, she starred in the U.S. miniseries The Slap.

Personal life[edit]

Newton married the English writer, director and producer Oliver Parker in 1998. They have three children: daughters Ripley (born in 2000) and Nico (born in 2004), and son Booker Jombe (born in 2014).[21] Her daughters were named after the character Ellen Ripley in the Alien films and the singer Nico and her son named after the cash–and–carry operator Booker Group.[22] Newton had home births with all three of her children.[21] She is vegan and was named PETA's "Sexiest Vegan of 2014" in the UK.[23]
In 2006, Newton contributed a foreword to We Wish: Hopes and Dreams of Cornwall's Children, a book of children's writing published in aid of the NSPCC. In it, she writes vividly about her childhood memories of growing up in Cornwall and the way in which the county's vibrant cultural heritage made it easy for her to "enrich every situation with layers of magic and meaning".[24]
In 2007, Newton sold her near-new BMW X5 and replaced it with a Toyota Prius after Greenpeace stuck a "This gas-guzzling 4x4 is causing climate change" sticker on her BMW.[25] In 2008, Newton visited poverty-stricken Mali, describing it as a "humbling experience". She visited the village of Nampasso in the Ségou Region of the country.[26] In 2013, Thandie led the One Billion Rising flash mob in London, for an end to violence, and for justice and gender equality.[27]
David Schwimmer (who directed Run Fatboy Run) called the actress "the queen of practical jokes".[28] Newton has expressed an affinity with Buddhism.[29][30]

Filmography[edit]

YearTitleRoleNotes
1991FlirtingThandiwe Adjewa
1991Pirate PrinceBecky NewtonTelevision film
1993The Young AmericansRachael Stevens
1994LoadedZita
1994Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire ChroniclesYvette
1995Jefferson in ParisSally Hemings
1995The Journey of August KingAnnalees
1996The Leading ManHilary Rule
1997Gridlock'dBarbara "Cookie" Cook
1997In Your DreamsClareTelevision film
1998BesiegedShanduraiNominated – Black Reel Award for Best Actress
1998BelovedBelovedNominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
2000Mission: Impossible IINyah Nordoff-HallNominated – Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favourite Female - Newcomer
Nominated – Empire Award for Best British Actress
Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Nominated – Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress
2000It Was an AccidentNoreen Hurlock
2002The Truth About CharlieRegina LambertNominated – Black Reel Award for Best Actress
Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
2003ShadeTiffany
2004The Chronicles of RiddickDame Vaako
2004CrashChristineBAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
Empire Award for Best Actress
Hollywood Film Festival Award for Ensemble of the Year
London Film Critics Circle Award for British Supporting Actress of the Year
Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble Cast
Nominated – BET Award for Best Actress
Nominated – Black Movie Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated – Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated – Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast
Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
2006The Interrogation of Leo and LisaThe Mona LisaShort film
2006American Dad!Makeva"Camp Refoogee"
2006The Pursuit of HappynessLindaNominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
2007NorbitKate Thomas
2007Run Fatboy RunLibby
2008RocknRollaStella
2008How to Lose Friends & Alienate PeopleHerself
2008W.Condoleezza Rice
2003–2009ERMakemba "Kem" Likasu
20092012Laura Wilson
2010HugeKris
2010Vanishing on 7th StreetRosemary
2010For Colored GirlsTangieBlack Reel Award for Best Ensemble
Nominated – Black Reel Award for Best Actress
2011RetreatKate
2012Good DeedsLindsey Wakefield
2013–2015RogueGrace TravisTV series
2013Half of a Yellow SunOlanna
2015The SlapAishaTV series
2015WestworldMaeve MillayTV series
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