Biography
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 (2016β2022), 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.
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Filmography (76)
Anaconda
2025
Mufasa: The Lion King
2024
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2023
God's Country
2022
All the Old Knives
2022
Human Resources
2022
Wednesday
2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Reminiscence
2021
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
2020
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
2020
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
2019
Gringo
2018
Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018
Family Feud
2018
The Big Narstie Show
2018
Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon
2017
Big Mouth
2017
Westworld
2016
The Slap
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Half of a Yellow Sun
2013
Rogue
2013
Good Deeds
2012
Line of Duty
2012
Retreat
2011
The Prophet
2011
Vanishing on 7th Street
2010
For Colored Girls
2010
Huge
2010
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010
2012
2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
W.
2008
RocknRolla
2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
Run Fatboy Run
2007
Norbit
2007
Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream
2007
Father and Son: On Screen and Off
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Pursuit of Happyness
2006
The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa
2006
Crash
2005
American Dad!
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
The Chronicles of Riddick
2004
Shade
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Truth About Charlie
2002
Mission: Impossible II
2000
It Was an Accident
2000
Besieged
1998
Beloved
1998
Gridlock'd
1997
In Your Dreams
1997
Elle Style Awards
1997
The Leading Man
1996
The Daily Show
1996
The Journey of August King
1995
Jefferson in Paris
1995
Interview with the Vampire
1994
Loaded
1994
ER
1994
The Young Americans
1993
Flirting
1991
Pirate Prince
1991
Cry to Heaven
The Wanted Man
First Day on Earth
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