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
Credits
- 2024 · Mufasa: The Lion King as Eshe (voice)
- 2023 · Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget as Ginger (voice)
- 2022 · God's Country as Sandra Guidry
- 2022 · All the Old Knives as Celia Harrison
- 2022 · Human Resources as Mona (voice)
- 2021 · Reminiscence as Emily 'Watts' Sanders
- 2020 · Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times as Self
- 2019 · The Death & Life of John F. Donovan as Journalist
- 2018 · Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · The Big Narstie Show as Self
- 2018 · Solo: A Star Wars Story as Val
- 2018 · Gringo as Bonnie Soyinka
- 2017 · Big Mouth as Mona (voice)
- 2017 · Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · Westworld as Maeve Millay
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
- 2015 · The Slap as Aisha
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as
- 2014 · Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- 2013 · Half of a Yellow Sun as Olanna
- 2013 · Rogue as Grace Travis
- 2012 · Line of Duty as DCI Roz Huntley
- 2012 · Good Deeds as Lindsey
- 2011 · Retreat as Kate
- 2011 · The Prophet as Narrator
- 2010 · For Colored Girls as Tangie / Orange
- 2010 · Vanishing on 7th Street as Rosemary
- 2010 · Huge as Kris
- 2010 · The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective as Self
- 2010 · 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic as Self
- 2009 · 2012 as Laura Wilson
- 2009 · RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Special Guest
- 2009 · RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge
- 2008 · W. as Condoleezza Rice
- 2008 · How to Lose Friends & Alienate People as Self
- 2008 · RocknRolla as Stella
- 2007 · Run Fatboy Run as Libby
- 2007 · Father and Son: On Screen and Off as
- 2007 · Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · Norbit as Kate Thomas
- 2006 · The Pursuit of Happyness as Linda
- 2006 · The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa as The Mona Lisa
- 2005 · Crash as Christine Thayer
- 2005 · American Dad! as Makeva (voice)
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · The Chronicles of Riddick as Dame Vaako
- 2003 · Shade as Tiffany
- 2002 · The Truth About Charlie as Regina Lambert
- 2000 · It Was an Accident as Noreen Hurlock
- 2000 · Mission: Impossible II as Nyah Hall
- 1998 · Beloved as Beloved
- 1998 · Besieged as Shandurai
- 1997 · In Your Dreams as Clare
- 1997 · Gridlock'd as Barbara 'Cookie' Cook
- 1996 · The Leading Man as Hilary Rule
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1995 · The Journey of August King as Annalees
- 1995 · Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemings
- 1994 · Interview with the Vampire as Yvette
- 1994 · ER as Makemba 'Kem' Likasu
- 1994 · Loaded as Zita
- 1993 · The Young Americans as Rachael Stevens
- 1991 · Pirate Prince as Becky Newton
- 1991 · Flirting as Thandiwe Adjewa