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Thandiwe Newton

Acting

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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.

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Thandiwe Newton

Biography

Films Featuring Thandiwe Newton

Mission: Impossible II

The Pursuit of Happyness

Interview with the Vampire

Crash

W.

The Chronicles of Riddick

God's Country

Flirting

Run Fatboy Run

The Young Americans

Norbit

Gridlock'd

The Truth About Charlie

RocknRolla

2012

Shade

Vanishing on 7th Street

The Journey of August King

Good Deeds

For Colored Girls

Besieged

The Leading Man

Beloved

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Loaded

Retreat

Half of a Yellow Sun

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

It Was an Accident

Jefferson in Paris

Pirate Prince

Mufasa: The Lion King

Huge

Gringo

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

In Your Dreams

Solo: A Star Wars Story

The Prophet

Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon

Reminiscence

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream

Father and Son: On Screen and Off

All the Old Knives

Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times

Family Feud

Anaconda

Cry to Heaven