Thandiwe Newton

Thandiwe Newton

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: Acting

Born: London, England, UK, 1972-11-06

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1991	Flirting	Thandiwe Adjewa	67
2	1991	Pirate Prince	Becky Newton	100
3	1993	The Young Americans	Rachael Stevens	58
4	1994	Loaded	Zita	39
5	1994	Interview with the Vampire	Yvette	74
6	1995	Jefferson in Paris	Sally Hemings	51
7	1995	The Journey of August King	Annalees	67
8	1996	The Leading Man	Hilary Rule	50
9	1997	Gridlock'd	Barbara 'Cookie' Cook	67
10	1997	In Your Dreams	Clare	55
11	1998	Besieged	Shandurai	67
12	1998	Beloved	Beloved	58
13	2000	Mission: Impossible II	Nyah Hall	61
14	2000	It Was an Accident	Noreen Hurlock	66
15	2002	The Truth About Charlie	Regina Lambert	48
16	2003	Shade	Tiffany	62
17	2004	The Chronicles of Riddick	Dame Vaako	65
18	2005	Crash	Christine Thayer	72
19	2006	The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa	The Mona Lisa	100
20	2006	The Pursuit of Happyness	Linda	79
21	2007	Norbit	Kate Thomas	57
22	2007	Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream	Self	90
23	2007	Father and Son: On Screen and Off		60
24	2007	Run Fatboy Run	Libby	62
25	2008	RocknRolla	Stella	70
26	2008	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People	Self	60
27	2008	W.	Condoleezza Rice	62
28	2009	2012	Laura Wilson	59
29	2010	2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic	Self	70
30	2010	The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective	Self	78
31	2010	Huge	Kris	56
32	2010	Vanishing on 7th Street	Rosemary	53
33	2010	For Colored Girls	Tangie / Orange	67
34	2011	The Prophet	Narrator	78
35	2011	Retreat	Kate	56
36	2012	Good Deeds	Lindsey	62
37	2013	Half of a Yellow Sun	Olanna	49
38	2017	Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon	Self - Narrator (voice)	100
39	2018	Family Feud	Joan	25
40	2018	Gringo	Bonnie Soyinka	59
41	2018	Solo: A Star Wars Story	Val	66
42	2019	The Death & Life of John F. Donovan	Journalist	69
43	2020	Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times	Self	100
44	2021	Reminiscence	Emily 'Watts' Sanders	66
45	2022	All the Old Knives	Celia Harrison	60
46	2022	God's Country	Sandra Guidry	57
47	2023	Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget	Ginger (voice)	70
48	2024	Mufasa: The Lion King	Eshe (voice)	74
49	2025	Anaconda		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1994	ER	Makemba 'Kem' Likasu	78
2	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
3	2005	The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	Self	68
4	2005	American Dad!	Makeva (voice)	70
5	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
6	2009	RuPaul's Drag Race	Self - Special Guest	76
7	2009	RuPaul's Drag Race	Self - Guest Judge	76
8	2012	Line of Duty	DCI Roz Huntley	82
9	2013	Rogue	Grace Travis	69
10	2013	Rogue		69
11	2014	Off Camera with Sam Jones	Self	40
12	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon		59
13	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
14	2015	The Slap	Aisha	59
15	2015	The Late Late Show with James Corden	Self - Guest	53
16	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	57
17	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
18	2016	Westworld	Maeve Millay	80
19	2017	Big Mouth	Mona (voice)	77
20	2017	Big Mouth		77
21	2018	The Big Narstie Show	Self	40
22	2018	Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema	Narrator (voice)	78
23	2022	Human Resources	Mona (voice)	65
24		The Wanted Man		0

Thandiwe Newton

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