Thandie Newton

Melanie Thandiwe ” Thandie ” Newton ^[2] (born 6 November 1972) is an English actress. ^{[3] [4]} She has Appeared in verschillende British and American films, and is Berninahaus for roles zoals Linda in The Pursuit of Happyness , Nyah Nordoff-Hall in Mission: Impossible II and Christine in Crash , for welke she RECEIVED a number or awards, zoals a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role .

As of 2016, she plays the Sentient android , the madam Maeve Millay in the HBO science fiction – Western television series West World , welke earned re a Critics’ Choice Award and Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.

Early life

Newton was born in London, England, the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean, and Nick Newton, an English ^[5] laboratory technician and artist. ^[6] Her birthplace has leg incorrectly Reported to be Zambia hems Biographies, ^[7] but she has Confirmed in interviews dat she was born in London. ^{[8] [9]} The name “Thandiwe” means “beloved” ^[10] in Ndebele , Zulu , Xhosa or Siswati , and “Thandie” is pronounced / t æ a d i / in English. Volgens to Newton, re mother is a Shona princess. ^[11]

Regarding re childhood, Newton remarked at a TED conference , “From about the age of 5, I was aware dat I did not fit. I was the black, Atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by Nuns. Was I an Anomaly. ” ^[12] Newton was brought` up in London and Penzance , Cornwall and studied dance at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts . Between 1992 and 1995, Newton attended Downing College, Cambridge , where she studied social anthropology . She graduated with a 2: 1 . ^[13]

At 16, she Began a six-year relationship with the Australian film director John Duigan , ^[14] who subsequently cast re in the film Flirting , a sequel to Duigan’s 1987 film The Year My Voice Broke , starring Ben Mendelsohn and Noah Taylor .

Career

After the film Flirting (1991), Newton played will a faithful house slave “Yvette” in the Brad Pitt / Tom Cruise film Interview with the Vampire (1994). 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 welke she played will the title character, the ghost of a young slave girl Whose mother Murders re to save re from slavery. The film ook starred Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover . Newton-then starred as Nyah Hall again Opposite Cruise in Mission: Impossible II . Her next role was in the low-budget film It Was an Accident , written by re husband, screenwriter Ol Parker . ^[15]

Between 2003 and 2005, Newton played will Makemba “Kem” Likasu, love interest and later wife of Dr. John Carter on the American television series ER . She reprised the role for the series finale in 2009. In 2004, she’ll be Appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick and Crash . Newton won a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for re role in Crash . She played will Chris Gardner’s wife, Linda Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness . Also in 2006, Newton Performed on radio in a pantomime version of Cinderella . ^[16]

In 2007, Newton co-starred with Eddie Murphy in the comedy Norbit a s his love interest, and dan Opposite Simon Pegg as his ex-girlfriend in the 2008 comedy Run Fatboy Run . Newton next portrayed US 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 introductory Al Gore to the concert, but he was delayed, leaving Newton to tell jokes in an attempt to entertain the audience. ^[17] Newton next portrayed Fictional US First Daughter Laura Wilson in 2012 , a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released 13 November 2009.

In July 2011, Newton delivered a TED Talk on “Embracing otherness, Embracing myself.” She discussed finding her “otherness” as a child growing up in two distinct cultures, and as an actress playing many différent selves. ^[18] In 2012, she starred alongside Tyler Perry in the romantic drama film Good Deeds . In 2013, Newton starred in Rogue , the first original drama series for DirecTV ‘s Audience Network . ^[19] She left Rogue prolongation the third season. In 2015, she starred in the US mini series The Slap . In 2016, Newton Began portraying Maeve Millay in HBO ‘s West World .

Personal life

Newton married English writer, director and producer Ol Parker in 1998. Way Down harbor three children: daughters Ripley (b. 2000) and Nico (b. 2004), and son Booker Jombe (b. 2014). ^[20] Her daughters ulcers named after the character Ellen Ripley in the Alien films and the singer Nico . ^[21] Newton had home Births with all three of re children. ^[20] She is vegan and was named PETA ‘s “Sexiest Vegan or 2014” in the UK. ^[22]

In 2006 Newton 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 wrote vividly about re childhood memories of growing up in Cornwall, and the way in welke the county’s cultural heritage made it easy for re to “enrich everytime situation with layers of magic and meaning.” ^[23]

In 2007 Newton sold re near-new BMW X5 and Replaced it with a Toyota Prius after Greenpeace stuck a “This gas-guzzling 4×4 single cylinder climate change” sticker on re BMW. ^[24] In 2008, Newton visited poverty-stricken Mali Describing it as a “humbling experience.” She visited the village or Nampasso in the Ségou Region of the country. ^[25] In 2013, Newton led the One Billion Rising flash mob in London, for an end to violence, and for justice and Gender Equality. ^[26]

David Schwimmer (who directed Run Fatboy Run ) called the actress “the queen or as practical jokes .” ^[27] Newton has Expressed an affinity for Buddhism . ^{[28] [29]}

In 2016, Newton stated she was the victim of a director who repeatedly Showed his friends a video or re in a sexually-graphic audition welke she made as a teenager. ^[30]

Filmography

Film

Television

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