
Thandiwe Newton
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 (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.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Anaconda as Claire Simons
2024Mufasa: The Lion King as Eshe (voice)
2023Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget as Ginger (voice)
2022Wednesday as Dr. Rachael Fairburn
2022God's Country as Sandra Guidry
2022All the Old Knives as Celia Harrison
2022Human Resources as Mona (voice)
2021Reminiscence as Emily 'Watts' Sanders
2020Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times as Self
2019The Death & Life of John F. Donovan as Journalist
2018Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema as Narrator (voice)
2018The Big Narstie Show as Self
2018Solo: A Star Wars Story as Val
2018Gringo as Bonnie Soyinka
2018Family Feud as Joan
2017Big Mouth as Mona (voice)
2017Big Mouth
2017Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016Westworld as Maeve Millay
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
2015The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
2015The Slap as Aisha
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2014Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
2013Half of a Yellow Sun as Olanna
2013Rogue as Grace Travis
2013Rogue
2012Line of Duty as DCI Roz Huntley
2012Good Deeds as Lindsey
2011Retreat as Kate
2011The Prophet as Narrator
2010For Colored Girls as Tangie / Orange
2010Vanishing on 7th Street as Rosemary
2010Huge as Kris
20102012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic as Self
2010The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective as Self
20092012 as Laura Wilson
2009RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Special Guest
2009RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge
2008W. as Condoleezza Rice
2008How to Lose Friends & Alienate People as Self
2008RocknRolla as Stella
2007Run Fatboy Run as Libby
2007Father and Son: On Screen and Off
2007Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream as Self
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2007Norbit as Kate Thomas
2006The Pursuit of Happyness as Linda
2006The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa as The Mona Lisa
2005Crash as Christine Thayer
2005American Dad! as Makeva (voice)
2005The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
2004The Chronicles of Riddick as Dame Vaako
2003Shade as Tiffany
2002The Truth About Charlie as Regina Lambert
2000It Was an Accident as Noreen Hurlock
2000Mission: Impossible II as Nyah Hall
1998Beloved as Beloved
1998Besieged as Shandurai
1997In Your Dreams as Clare
1997Gridlock'd as Cookie
1996The Leading Man as Hilary Rule
1996The Daily Show as Self
1995The Journey of August King as Annalees
1995Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemings
1994Interview with the Vampire as Yvette
1994ER as Makemba 'Kem' Likasu
1994Loaded as Zita
1993The Young Americans as Rachael Stevens
1991Pirate Prince as Becky Newton
1991Flirting as Thandiwe Adjewa
—The Wanted Man
—Cry to Heaven









