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Thandiwe Newton 1972 52
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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2025 Anaconda
2024 Mufasa: The Lion King as Eshe (voice)
2023 Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget as Ginger (voice)
2023 President Executive Producer
2022 God's Country as Sandra Guidry
2022 All the Old Knives as Celia Harrison
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 Solo: A Star Wars Story as Val
2018 Gringo as Bonnie Soyinka
2018 Family Feud as Joan
2017 Liyana Executive Producer
2017 Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016 Westworld as Maeve Millay
2013 Half of a Yellow Sun as Olanna
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 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic as Self
2010 The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective as Self
2009 2012 as Laura Wilson
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
2007 Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream 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
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
1995 The Journey of August King as Annalees
1995 Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemings
1994 Interview with the Vampire as Yvette
1994 Loaded as Zita
1993 The Young Americans as Rachael Stevens
1991 Pirate Prince as Becky Newton
1991 Flirting as Thandiwe Adjewa