Melanie Thandiwe Newton, formerly credited as Thandie Newton, is an English actress.
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34 Facts About Thandie Newton
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Thandie Newton has received various awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for two Golden Globe Awards.
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Thandie Newton's was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to film and to charity.
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Since 2016, Thandie Newton has played a sentient android, the madam Maeve Millay, in the HBO science fiction-western series Westworld, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and two Critics Choice Awards, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award, Saturn Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Thandie Newton was born in Westminster, London, England, to Nyasha, a Zimbabwean member of a Shona chiefly family, and Nick Thandie Newton, an English laboratory technician and artist.
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Thandie Newton's studied dance at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.
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Between 1992 and 1995, Thandie Newton studied at Downing College, Cambridge, where she obtained a degree in social anthropology.
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Thandie Newton made her film debut in the coming of age comedy-drama Flirting .
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Thandie Newton's was credited as "Thandie Newton" due to a misspelling of her first name, and subsequently continued to use this name professionally.
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Thandie Newton appeared in the Merchant Ivory production of Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemings.
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Thandie Newton starred as Nyah Nordoff-Hall, again opposite Cruise, in Mission: Impossible 2.
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Between 2003 and 2005, Thandie Newton played Makemba "Kem" Likasu, love interest of John Carter on the American television series ER.
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Thandie Newton's won a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for her role in Crash.
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Thandie Newton's played Chris Gardner's wife, Linda Gardner, in The Pursuit of Happyness.
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Also in 2006, Thandie Newton performed on radio in a pantomime version of Cinderella.
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In 2007, Thandie Newton co-starred with Eddie Murphy as his love interest in the comedy Norbit.
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Thandie Newton's played opposite Simon Pegg as his ex-girlfriend in the 2008 comedy Run Fatboy Run.
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Thandie Newton's next portrayed Condoleezza Rice, US National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State in W, Oliver Stone's biography of President George W Bush.
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Thandie Newton was an introducer at Wembley Stadium on 7 July 2007, for the UK leg of Live Earth.
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Thandie Newton's was due to introduce former US Vice President Al Gore to the concert, but he was delayed, leaving Newton to tell jokes in an attempt to entertain the audience.
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Thandie Newton next portrayed fictional US First Daughter Laura Wilson in 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released 13 November 2009.
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In 2013, Thandie Newton starred in Rogue, the first original drama series for DirecTV's Audience Network.
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Thandie Newton married English writer, director, and producer Ol Parker in 1998.
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Thandie Newton's is vegan and was named PETA's "Sexiest Vegan of 2014" in the UK.
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In 2006, Thandie 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.
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In 2007, Thandie Newton sold her near-new BMW X5 and replaced it with a Toyota Prius after Greenpeace stuck a "This gas-guzzling 4x4 is causing climate change" sticker on her BMW.
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In 2008, Thandie Newton visited poverty-stricken Mali, describing it as a "humbling experience".
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Thandie Newton's visited the village of Nampasso in the Segou Region of the country.
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In 2013, Thandie Newton led the One Billion Rising flash mob in London, for an end to violence, and for justice and gender equality.
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Thandie Newton cited this experience as being a part of why she had taken the Westworld role, which involved substantial nudity.
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Thandie Newton was ranked one of the best-dressed women in 2018 by fashion website Net-a-Porter.
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Later that year, it was announced that Thandie Newton was included in the 2019 edition of the Powerlist, ranking the 100 most influential Black Britons.
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