Actor
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 ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Mufasa: The Lion King | Eshe (voice)
2023 -- Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Ginger (voice)
2022 -- God's Country | Sandra Guidry
2022 -- All the Old Knives | Celia Harrison
2021 -- Reminiscence | Emily 'Watts' Sanders
2020 -- Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times | Self
2019 -- The Death & Life of John F. Donovan | Journalist
2018 -- Solo: A Star Wars Story | Val
2018 -- Gringo | Bonnie Soyinka
2018 -- Family Feud | Joan
2017 -- Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon | Self - Narrator (voice)
2013 -- Half of a Yellow Sun | Olanna
2012 -- Good Deeds | Lindsey
2011 -- Retreat | Kate
2011 -- The Prophet | Narrator
2010 -- For Colored Girls | Tangie / Orange
2010 -- Vanishing on 7th Street | Rosemary
2010 -- Huge | Kris
2010 -- The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective | Self
2010 -- 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic | Self
2009 -- 2012 | Laura Wilson
2008 -- W. | Condoleezza Rice
2008 -- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | Self
2008 -- RocknRolla | Stella
2007 -- Run Fatboy Run | Libby
2007 -- Father and Son: On Screen and Off |
2007 -- Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream | Self
2007 -- Norbit | Kate Thomas
2006 -- The Pursuit of Happyness | Linda
2006 -- The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa | The Mona Lisa
2005 -- Crash | Christine Thayer
2004 -- The Chronicles of Riddick | Dame Vaako
2003 -- Shade | Tiffany
2002 -- The Truth About Charlie | Regina Lambert
2000 -- It Was an Accident | Noreen Hurlock
2000 -- Mission: Impossible II | Nyah Hall
1998 -- Beloved | Beloved
1998 -- Besieged | Shandurai
1997 -- In Your Dreams | Clare
1997 -- Gridlock'd | Barbara 'Cookie' Cook
1996 -- The Leading Man | Hilary Rule
1995 -- The Journey of August King | Annalees
1995 -- Jefferson in Paris | Sally Hemings
1994 -- Interview with the Vampire | Yvette
1994 -- Loaded | Zita
1993 -- The Young Americans | Rachael Stevens
1991 -- Pirate Prince | Becky Newton
1991 -- Flirting | Thandiwe Adjewa
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