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Full Name:	Thandie Newton
Birth Name:	Thandiwe Newton
Famous As:	Actress
Date of Birth:	November 06, 1972
Place of Birth:	Zambia
Height:	5' 2
Nationality:	British
Hair Color:	Dark Brown
Eye Color:	Brown

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Thandie Newton
Newton at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Thandiwe Adjewa Newton 6 November 1972 (1972-11-06) (age 37) London, England, UK12
Occupation	Actress, Model
Years active	1991–present
Spouse(s)	Ol Parker (1998–present) two children
Official website

Thandiwe Adjewa "Thandie" Newton (born 6 November 1972) is an English actress.³⁴⁵ She has appeared in a number of successful British and American films, including The Pursuit of Happyness; Run, Fat Boy, Run; Mission: Impossible II; Crash and W.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

Early life

Newton was born in London, England, and is the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean health-care worker, and Nick Newton,⁶ an English laboratory technician and artist.⁷ Her birthplace has been incorrectly reported to be Zambia in some biographies,⁸ however she has confirmed in interviews that she was born in London, during a two-week trip by her parents.¹²⁹ The name "Thandiwe" means "beloved"¹⁰ in Ndebele, Zulu, Xhosa or Swazi and the name "Thandie" is pronounced TAN-dee.¹¹ According to Newton, her mother is a Zimbabwean Shona Princess.¹² Raised in London and Penzance, Cornwall, she went on to study Archaeology and Anthropology at Downing College, Cambridge, from 1992 to 1995, where she achieved a 2:1.¹³

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. She reprised the role once more for the series finale in 2009. 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.¹⁴

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 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 17 October 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.¹⁵

Newton next portrayed the United States President's First Daughter Laura Wilson in 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released 13 November 2009.

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 Ellen Ripley in the Alien films and the singer Nico.

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".¹⁶

In 2008, Newton visited poverty-stricken Mali, describing it as a "humbling experience". She visited the village of Nampasso in the Ségou Region of the country.¹⁷

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.¹⁸

In an interview with The Advocate, Newton revealed she had a lesbian relationship at 16 and was in love with the girl. She discussed her sexual orientation saying "We're all potentially bisexual; it all depends on your circle, your upbringing and all kinds of things. Or maybe I'm just talking about myself. I could've easily fallen in love with a woman over a man."¹⁹

Newton has suffered from bulimia.²⁰

Some of Newton's co-stars have mentioned that she can be a bit of a practical joker. Simon Pegg, for instance, mentioned that she once put plastic wrap over his toilet whilst shooting Run Fatboy Run, and sewed up the neck and cuffs of his T-shirts.²¹ Furthermore, on the special features of the DVD, whilst Simon Pegg is being interviewed, they are interrupted by the fact that Pegg has to change bottles of water - the stock provided was replaced with vodka by Newton. "He is extremely easy to do these things to. I got him, what a sap!" said Newton at the film's London premiere. David Schwimmer (who directed the film) dubbed the actress "the queen of practical jokes".²²

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
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	Nominated — Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
	Besieged	Shandurai	Nominated — Black Reel Award for Best Theatrical Actress
2000	Mission: Impossible II	Nyah Nordoff-Hall	Nominated — Empire Award for Best British Actress Nominated — Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
	It Was an Accident	Noreen Hurlock
2002	The Truth About Charlie	Regina Lambert	Nominated — Black Reel Award for Best Theatrical Actress Nominated — Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
2003	Shade	Tiffany
2003-2005; 2009	ER	Makemba 'Kem' Likasu
2004	The Chronicles of Riddick	Dame Vaako
	Crash	Christine	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble Cast Empire Award for Best Actress London Film Critics Circle Award for British Supporting Actress of the Year Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated — Black Movie Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated — Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated — Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast Nominated — Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
2006	The Pursuit of Happyness	Linda	Nominated — Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
2007	Norbit	Kate
	Run, Fat Boy, Run	Libby
2008	RocknRolla	Stella
	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People	Herself
	W.	Condoleezza Rice
2009	2012	Laura Wilson

References

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