Thandiwe "Thandie" Newton is an English actress. She has appeared in a number of British and American films, and is known for roles such as Linda in The Pursuit of Happyness, Nyah Nordoff-Hall in Mission: Impossible II and Christine in Crash, for which she received a number ...
London's Tring Park School of Performing Arts, Downing College, Cambridge
Nationality
United Kingdom
Spouse
Ol Parker (m. 1998)
Children
Ripley Parker, Booker Jombe Parker, Nico Parker
Parents
Nyasha Newton, Nick Newton
Siblings
Jamie Newton
Nicknames
Thandiwe Adjewa Newton , Thandiwe Nashita Newton , Thandiwe Nashita "Thandie" Newton , Thandie , Thandiwe Ajdewa Newton , Thandiwe , Thandiwe Melanie Newton
Awards
BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress (2004), Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble (2010)
Nominations
Black Reel Award for Best Actress, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Movies
"Mission: Impossible II" (2000), "The Pursuit of Happiness" (2006), "Crash" (2004), "The Young Americans", "The Truth About Charlie", "ER", "Shade", "Beloved", "The Chronicles of Riddick", "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles"
TV Shows
"Embracing otherness, embracing myself"
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Quote
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When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.
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Ten years ago, I probably would have bemoaned the fact that I started out [in the film business] so young - but now I'm grateful - truly grateful. [September 2008]
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God, yeah, I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!
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I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take. What is lovely is that I'll get sent a small movie, and you know that by virtue of me being involved they get their money and that's fantastic.
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Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it. Not to put too fine a point on it, there's something about the shame that goes with sexual exploitation, deviance, whatever. As a woman, having a baby psychologically erases it all from your body. And that, for me, was incredibly important.
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I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.
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It was hysterical. We wanted to make it naughty and fun. When the camera stopped rolling, it was hard to stop laughing. - about her love scene with Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible II (2000).
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Fact
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Returned to work 5 months after giving birth to her son Booker to begin filming Westworld (2016).
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According to Thandie, her mother is a Princess of the Shona Tribe.
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Was 6 months pregnant with her son Booker when she completed filming the 2nd season of Rogue (2013).
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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.
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Returned to work 8 months after giving birth to her daughter Nico to begin filming The Pursuit of Happyness (2006).
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Was 2 months pregnant with her daughter Nico when she completed filming Crash (2004).
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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.
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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.
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.
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Delivered both of her daughters naturally via a birthing pool.
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Her full first name is pronounced tan-DEE-way.
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Her younger daughter was named for German-born singer Nico, member of the legendary rock group The Velvet Underground.
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She named her daughter Ripley after the character played by Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979).
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Graduated with a 2:1 (otherwise known as "an undergraduate degree with 2nd Class Honours, Upper Division")in Anthropology from Cambridge University.
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Ranked #48 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002)
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Raised in Penzance, Cornwall, England.
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One of her fondest memories is watching her mother get dressed in her traditional African garb because it taught her black pride.
$20 Million
