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Thandie Newton
Newton at the 2007 BAFTAs
Born	Thandiwe Adjewa Newton November 6, 1972 (1972-11-06) (age 36) London, England1
Years active	1991-present
Spouse(s)	Ol Parker (1997-present) 2 children
Awards won BAFTA Awards Best Supporting Actress 2005 Crash Screen Actors Guild Awards Best Cast - Motion Picture 2005 Crash

Thandiwe Adjewa "Thandie" Newton (born 6 November 1972) is a BAFTA- and SAG Award-winning English²³⁴ actress. She has appeared in a number of successful British and American films, including The Pursuit of Happyness; Run, Fat Boy, Run; Mission: Impossible II; and Crash.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 Awards and nominations 4 References 5 External links

Biography

Early life

Newton is the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean health-care worker, and Nick Newton, a white⁵ English laboratory technician and artist.⁶⁷ Her birthplace has been incorrectly reported to be Zambia in biographies,⁶⁷ but she has confirmed in interviews that she was born in London, during a two week trip by her parents.⁸⁹ The name "Thandiwe" means "beloved" ¹⁰ in Ndebele, Zulu, Xhosa or Swazi and the name "Thandie" is pronounced TAN-dee. According to Newton, her mother is a Zimbabwean Shona Princess.¹¹ She was raised in London and Penzance, Cornwall, and studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Downing College, Cambridge.

Career

Newton made her film debut in Flirting (1991). She gained international recognition in the Merchant-Ivory production of Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemings, which led to her being cast in Jonathan Demme's Beloved (1998), in which she played the title character. She played the female lead Nyah Hall in the film Mission: Impossible II. When this film went over schedule, she had to pull out of the film Charlie's Angels^{citation needed}, and her character ultimately went to Lucy Liu.

Between 2003 and 2005, Newton played Makemba "Kem" Likasu, the love interest, and later wife of Dr. John Carter on the American television series ER, and in 2004 also appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick and Crash. In the latter, she played a wealthy black woman who, along with her husband, finds herself the target of a racist policeman (played by Matt Dillon). Newton was honoured with a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006. She also played Chris Gardner's wife, Linda Gardner, in The Pursuit of Happyness.

In addition to her film and television credits she played the title role in a 2006 radio pantomime version of Cinderella.¹²

In 2007, she starred alongside Eddie Murphy in the comedy Norbit as his love interest, and opposite Simon Pegg as his ex-girlfriend in the comedy Run Fat Boy Run.

Newton's next portrayed U.S. National Security Advisor-turned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in W., Oliver Stone's film biography of President George W. Bush. The film was released Friday, October 17, 2008.

Newton was an introducer at Wembley Stadium on 7 July 2007 for the UK leg of Live Earth. She was due to introduce Al Gore to the concert, but he was delayed, leaving Newton to tell jokes to try and entertain the audience.^{citation needed}

Personal life

Newton married English writer/director/producer Ol Parker in 1998. The couple have two daughters: Ripley, born in 2000, and Nico, born in 2004. Her daughters were named after the character Ripley in the Alien films and Nico from Above The Law.

In 2006, she contributed a foreword to We Wish: Hopes and Dreams of Cornwall's Children, a book of children's writing published in aid of the NSPCC. In it, she writes vividly about her childhood memories of growing up in Cornwall and the way in which the county's vibrant cultural heritage made it easy for her to "enrich every situation with layers of magic and meaning".¹³

Newton swapped her BMW X5 for a Toyota Prius after protesters bombarded the car with eggs at the gates of her daughters’ school. She then wrote to her celebrity friends, asking them to join her in switching to more environmentally sound cars.¹⁴

Newton has suffered from bulimia.¹⁵

Filmography

Year	Film	Character
1991	Flirting	Thandiwe Adjewa
	Pirate Prince	Becky Newton
1993	The Young Americans	Rachael Stevens
1994	Loaded	Zita
	Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles	Yvette
1995	Jefferson in Paris	Sally Hemings
	The Journey of August King	Annalees
1996	The Leading Man	Hilary Rule
1997	Gridlock'd	Barbara 'Cookie' Cook
	In Your Dreams	Clare
1998	Beloved	Beloved
	Besieged	Shandurai
2000	Mission: Impossible II	Nyah Nordoff-Hall
	It Was an Accident	Noreen Hurlock
2002	The Truth About Charlie	Regina Lambert
2003	Shade	Tiffany
2004	The Chronicles of Riddick	Dame Vaako
	Crash	Christine
2006	The Pursuit of Happyness	Linda
2007	Norbit	Kate
	Run, Fat Boy, Run	Libby
2008	RocknRolla	Stella
	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People	Herself
	W.	Condoleezza Rice
2009	2012	TBA

Awards and nominations

• BAFTA
  • 2006, Best Supporting Actress: Crash (Winner)
• BET Award
  • 2006, Best Actress: (Nominated)
• Black Movie Awards
  • 2006, Best Supporting Actress: Crash (Nominated)
• Black Reel Awards
  • 2006, Best Supporting Actress: Crash (Nominated)
  • 2003, Best Actress: The Truth About Charlie (Nominated)
  • 2000, Best Actress: Besieged (Nominated)
• Image Awards
  • 2007, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: The Pursuit of Happyness (Nominated)
  • 2006, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Crash (Nominated)
  • 2003, Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: The Truth About Charlie (Nominated)
  • 2001, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Mission: Impossible II (Nominated)
  • 1999, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Beloved (Nominated)
• Razzie Award
  • 2001, Worst Supporting Actress: Mission: Impossible II (Nominated)
• Screen Actors Guild
  • 2006, Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture: Crash (Winner)

References

External links

• Thandie Newton at the Internet Movie Database

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Cate Blanchett for The Aviator	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role 2006 for Crash	Succeeded by Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls