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.
Movie | Mufasa: The Lion King | Eshe (voice) | 2024-12-18 |
Movie | Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Ginger (voice) | 2023-12-08 |
Movie | All the Old Knives | Celia Harrison | 2022-04-08 |
Series | Human Resources | Mona (voice) | 2022-03-18 |
Movie | God's Country | Sandra Guidry | 2022-09-15 |
Series | Wednesday | Dr Fairburn | 2022-11-23 |
Movie | Reminiscence | Emily 'Watts' Sanders | 2021-08-18 |
Movie | Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times | Unknown | 2020-09-19 |
Movie | The Death & Life of John F. Donovan | Audrey Newhouse | 2019-03-13 |
Movie | Gringo | Bonnie Soyinka | 2018-03-08 |
Movie | Solo: A Star Wars Story | Val | 2018-05-15 |
Series | The Big Narstie Show | Self | 2018-06-29 |
Series | Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema | Narrator (voice) | 2018-09-01 |
Movie | Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2017-06-05 |
Series | Big Mouth | Mona (voice) | 2017-09-29 |
Series | Westworld | Maeve Millay | 2016-10-02 |
Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015-09-08 |
Series | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Self - Guest | 2015-03-23 |
Series | The Slap | Aisha | 2015-02-12 |
Series | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self | 2015-08-02 |
Series | Off Camera with Sam Jones | Self | 2014-02-06 |
Series | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Unknown | 2014-02-17 |
Series | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self | 2014-12-21 |
Series | Rogue | Grace Travis | 2013-04-03 |
Movie | Half of a Yellow Sun | Olanna | 2013-09-08 |
Series | Line of Duty | DCI Roz Huntley | 2012-06-26 |
Movie | Good Deeds | Lindsey | 2012-02-23 |
Movie | The Prophet | Narrator | 2011-01-03 |
Movie | Retreat | Kate | 2011-10-14 |
Movie | The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective | Self | 2010-03-02 |
Movie | Huge | Kris | 2010-06-18 |
Movie | 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic | Self | 2010-03-02 |
Movie | Vanishing on 7th Street | Rosemary | 2010-09-11 |
Movie | For Colored Girls | Tangie / Orange | 2010-11-05 |
Series | RuPaul's Drag Race | Self - Special Guest | 2009-02-02 |
Movie | 2012 | Laura Wilson | 2009-10-10 |
Movie | RocknRolla | Stella | 2008-09-04 |
Movie | W. | Condoleezza Rice | 2008-10-17 |
Movie | How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | Self | 2008-10-02 |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
Movie | Norbit | Kate Thomas | 2007-02-08 |
Movie | Father and Son: On Screen and Off | 2007-05-22 | |
Movie | Run Fatboy Run | Libby | 2007-09-06 |
Movie | Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream | Self | 2007-03-27 |
Movie | The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa | The Mona Lisa | 2006-03-29 |
Movie | The Pursuit of Happyness | Linda | 2006-12-14 |
Series | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self | 2005-01-03 |
Movie | Crash | Christine Thayer | 2005-05-06 |
Series | American Dad! | Makeva (voice) | 2005-02-06 |
Movie | The Chronicles of Riddick | Dame Vaako | 2004-06-11 |
Movie | Shade | Tiffany | 2003-05-18 |
Movie | The Truth About Charlie | Regina Lambert | 2002-10-25 |
Movie | Mission: Impossible II | Nyah Hall | 2000-05-24 |
Movie | It Was an Accident | Noreen Hurlock | 2000-10-27 |
Movie | Besieged | Shandurai | 1998-02-05 |
Movie | Beloved | Beloved | 1998-10-16 |
Movie | In Your Dreams | Clare | 1997-12-13 |
Movie | Gridlock'd | Barbara 'Cookie' Cook | 1997-01-29 |
Series | The Daily Show | Self | 1996-07-22 |
Movie | The Leading Man | Hilary Rule | 1996-12-12 |
Movie | The Journey of August King | Annalees | 1995-09-14 |
Movie | Jefferson in Paris | Sally Hemings | 1995-03-31 |
Movie | Loaded | Zita | 1994-09-01 |
Series | ER | Makemba 'Kem' Likasu | 1994-09-19 |
Movie | Interview with the Vampire | Yvette | 1994-11-11 |
Movie | The Young Americans | Rachael Stevens | 1993-10-08 |
Movie | Flirting | Thandiwe Adjewa | 1991-03-20 |
Movie | Pirate Prince | Becky Newton | 1991-12-26 |