Thandiwe Newton

Thandiwe Newton
Also known as	Melanie Thandiwe Newton
Season	Season One, Season Two, Season Three
First	"The Original"
Born	6 November 1972 (age 51) London, England, UK
Role	Maeve Millay
imdb	IMDb
twitter	@thandienewton
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Thandie Newton (born Melanie Thandiwe Newton) is an English actress most known for her roles in The Pursuit of Happyness, Mission: Impossible II, Crash, and more. She plays Maeve Millay in HBO's Westworld. Newton was awarded the 2018 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance.

Other roles

• Thandiwe Adjewa in Flirting 
• Rachael Steven in The Young Americans 
• Sally Hemings in Jefferson in Paris 
• Hilary Rule in The Leading Man 
• Nyah Nordoff-Hall in Mission: Impossible II 
• Noreen Hurlock in It Was an Accident 
• Regina Lambert in The Truth About Charlie
• Makemba Likasu in ER 
• Dame Vaako in The Chronicles of Riddick 
• Christine Thayer in Crash 
• Linda Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness 
• Kate Thomas in Norbit 
• Condoleezza Rice in W. 
• Laura Wilson in 2012 
• Lindsey Wakefield in Good Deeds 
• Grace Travis in Rogue
• Roz Huntley in Line of Duty 
• Bonnie Soyinka in Gringo 
• Val in Solo: A Star Wars Story 
• Audrey Newhouse in The Death and Life of John F. Donovan 

Trivia

Courtesy of IMDB

• A delayed shoot for Mission: Impossible II (2000) caused Thandie to turn down one of the lead roles in Charlie's Angels (2000). Lucy Liu was cast instead.
• One of her fondest memories is watching her mother get dressed in her traditional African garb because it taught her black pride.
• Raised in Penzance, Cornwall, England.
• Ranked #48 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002)
• Graduated with a 2:1 in social anthropology from Downing college, Cambridge.
• She named her daughter Ripley after the character played by Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979).
• Her younger daughter was named for German-born singer Nico, member of the legendary rock group The Velvet Underground.
• Her full first name, Thandiwe which means "beloved." is pronounced tan-DEE-way.
• Delivered both of her daughters naturally via a birthing pool.
• In July 2011, in a speech at the TEDGlobal 2011 Conference, Newton disclosed that earlier in her career, she struggled with the eating disorder bulimia.
• Daughter of Nick Newton and Nyasha Newton and sister of Jamie Newton.
• Gave birth to her 1st child at age 27, a daughter Ripley Parker on 17 September 2000. Child's father is her husband, Ol Parker.
• Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 32, a daughter Nico Parker in mid December 2004. Child's father is her husband, Ol Parker.
• Was 2 months pregnant with her daughter Nico when she completed filming Crash (2004).
• Returned to work 8 months after giving birth to her daughter Nico to begin filming The Pursuit of Happyness (2006).
• Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 41, a son Booker Jombe Parker on March 3, 2014. Child's father is her husband, Ol Parker.
• Was 6 months pregnant with her son Booker when she completed filming the 2nd season of Rogue (2013).
• According to Thandie, her mother is a Princess of the Shona Tribe.
• Returned to work 5 months after giving birth to her son Booker to begin filming Westworld (2016).

External links

• Thandie Newton at the Internet Movie Database
• Thandie Newton at the Twitter Website

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