![]() ![]() She was due to introduce Al Gore to the concert, but he was delayed, leaving Newton to tell jokes in an attempt to entertain the audience. Newton next portrayed fictional US First Daughter Laura Wilson in 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released 13 November 2009. Newton was an introducer at Wembley Stadium on 7 July 2007, for the UK leg of Live Earth. Newton next portrayed US National Security Advisor-turned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in W., Oliver Stone's film biography of President George W. In 2007, Newton co-starred with Eddie Murphy in the comedy Norbit as his love interest, and then opposite Simon Pegg as his ex-girlfriend in the 2008 comedy Run Fatboy Run. Also in 2006, Newton performed on radio in a pantomime version of Cinderella. She played Chris Gardner's wife, Linda Gardner, in The Pursuit of Happyness. Newton won a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for her role in Crash. In 2004, she also appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick and Crash. She reprised the role for the series finale in 2009. John Carter on the American television series ER. Her next role was in the low-budget film It Was an Accident, written by her husband, screenwriter Ol Parker.īetween 20, Newton played Makemba "Kem" Likasu, love interest and later wife of Dr. Newton then starred as Nyah Hall, again opposite Cruise, in Mission: Impossible 2. The film also starred Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. ![]() Newton next appeared in the Merchant Ivory production of Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemings, followed by Jonathan Demme's drama Beloved, based on Toni Morrison's novel (1998), in which she played the title character, the ghost of a young slave girl whose mother murders her to save her from slavery. She graduated with a 2:1.Īt 16, she began a six-year relationship with the Australian film director John Duigan, who subsequently cast her in the film Flirting, a sequel to Duigan's 1987 film The Year My Voice Broke, starring Ben Mendelsohn and Noah Taylor.Īfter the film Flirting (1991), Newton played a faithful house slave "Yvette" in the Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise film Interview with the Vampire (1994). Between 19, Newton attended Downing College, Cambridge, where she studied social anthropology. ![]() ![]() I was an anomaly." Newton was brought up in London and Penzance, Cornwall and studied dance at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. Regarding her childhood, Newton remarked at a TED conference, "From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. According to Newton, her mother is a Shona princess. Newton was born in Westminster, London, England, the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean, and Nick Newton, an English laboratory technician and artist. Her birthplace has been incorrectly reported to be Zambia in some biographies, but she has confirmed in interviews that she was born in London. The name "Thandiwe" means "beloved" in Ndebele, Zulu, Xhosa or siSwati, and "Thandie" is pronounced /ˈtændi/ in English. She also portrayed DCI Roz Huntley in Series 4 of the BBC One police procedural series Line of Duty. Melanie Thandiwe "Thandie" Newton (born 6 November 1972) is an English actress. She has appeared in several British and American films, and is known for roles such as Linda in The Pursuit of Happyness, Nyah Nordoff-Hall in Mission: Impossible 2 and Christine in Crash, for which she received a number of awards, including a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.Īs of 2016, she plays the sentient android, the madam Maeve Millay in the HBO science fiction-Western television series Westworld, which earned her a Critics' Choice Award, and Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Emmy Award nominations. ![]()
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