Thandie Newton

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Thandie Newton at Comic-Con in San Diego 2017

Melanie Thandiwe "Thandie" Newton , OBE (born November 6, 1972 in London ) is a British actress .

life and career

Thandie Newton was born to a Zimbabwean mother (a princess of the Shona ) and a British father. Because of political unrest her family emigrated with her out of the African from the country and moved to England Cornwall .

Later Newton attended London's Art Education School and wanted to become a professional dancer . But a back injury prevented her from doing so. She reoriented and trained as an actor, during which she met the director John Duigan and in 1991 she starred in his film Flirting - Spiel mit der Liebe .

Newton moved to Los Angeles for a short time but returned to Cambridge and earned a university degree in anthropology . In the 1990s she played a few minor film roles. In 1998 she made her breakthrough in Hollywood in the film Human Child.

2000 Newton was cast as the female counterpart to Tom Cruise in the Hollywood production Mission: Impossible 2 . She was also supposed to play one of the three title characters from Charlie's Angels , but lost her role to Lucy Liu because the shooting of Mission: Impossible 2 was extended. In addition to other movies such as Riddick: Chronicles of a Warrior (2004), she was also seen in the successful television series Emergency Room in the following years. In the episodrama LA Crash (2004) she played the role of Christine, who is sexually molested by a police officer and later rescued from a burning car wreck by the same man. For her performance in LA Crash , she received the British Academy Film Award in the category "Best Supporting Actress", the Empire Award in the category "Best Actress", the London Critics' Circle Film Award in the category "Best British Supporting Actress", the Black Reel Award in the "Best Acting Ensemble" category, the Screen Actors Guild Award also in the "Best Acting Ensemble" category and has been nominated for four other awards.

Since 2016 she has played the role of prostitute android Maeve Millay on the HBO series Westworld . Her portrayal earned her an Emmy nomination for "Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" in 2017 . A year later she won the award in the same category for her performance in the second season.

Newton has been married to screenwriter Ol Parker since 1998 and has two daughters (* 2000, * 2004) and a son (* 2014).

Filmography (selection)

Newton at the 2007 British Academy Film Awards

Awards and nominations

Emmy

  • 2017 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Westworld
  • 2018: Award for best supporting actress in a drama series for Westworld

Golden Globe Award

Screen Actors Guild Award

Critics' Choice Television Award

Saturn Award

British Academy Film Award

British Academy Television Award

  • 2018: Nomination for Best Actress in a TV Series for Line of Duty

Golden Raspberry

Web links

Commons : Thandie Newton  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kamwilliams.com/2008/03/thandie-newton-run-fatboy-run-interview.html (English)
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628601/bio
  3. ↑ Thandie Newton in the Internet Movie Database: Awards (English)
personal data
SURNAME Newton, Thandie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newton, Thandiwe Ajdewa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England, UK