
Acting
Community Rating
6.5
TMDB estimate
Born
November 6, 1972 (age 53)
Born in
London, England, UK
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.

Anaconda
Claire Simons
2025

Mufasa: The Lion King
Eshe (voice)
2024

Mission: Impossible II
Nyah Hall
2000

2012
Laura Wilson
2009

Solo: A Star Wars Story
Val
2018

The Pursuit of Happyness
Linda
2006

Norbit
Kate Thomas
2007

Crash
Christine Thayer
2005

Interview with the Vampire
Yvette
1994

RocknRolla
Stella
2008

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Ginger (voice)
2023

W.
Condoleezza Rice
2008

Reminiscence
Emily 'Watts' Sanders
2021

Shade
Tiffany
2003

The Chronicles of Riddick
Dame Vaako
2004

Beloved
Beloved
1998

Gringo
Bonnie Soyinka
2018

Run Fatboy Run
Libby
2007

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Self
2008

All the Old Knives
Celia Harrison
2022