Cast & creator
Thandiwe Newton
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thandiwe Newton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Thandie Newton, Melanie Thandiwe Newton
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film credits
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television credits
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1990–2027 · acting roles
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Filmography (85)
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015
The Daily Show
Self - Guest
1996
American Dad!
Makeva (voice)
2005
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
2015
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
2005
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Special Guest
2009RuPaul's Drag Race
Self - Guest Judge
2009
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self - Guest
2022
Westworld
Maeve Millay
2016
ER
Kem Likasu
1994
Wednesday
Dr. Rachael Fairburn
2022
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Big Mouth
Mona (voice)
2017Big Mouth
2017
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Self
2014
Line of Duty
DCI Roz Huntley
2012
Mufasa: The Lion King
Eshe (voice)
2024
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
Self - Guest Judge
2019
Parkinson
Self - Guest
2004
The Word
Self
1990
The Pursuit of Happyness
Linda
2006
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Val
2018
Mission: Impossible II
Nyah Hall
2000
Human Resources
Mona (voice)
2022
2012
Laura Wilson
2009
Rogue
Grace Travis
2013Rogue
2013
Interview with the Vampire
Yvette
1994
Anaconda
Claire Simons
2025
Crash
Christine Thayer
2005
Norbit
Kate Thomas
2007
The Big Narstie Show
Self
2018
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
Narrator (voice)
2020
The Slap
Aisha
2015
All the Old Knives
Celia Harrison
2022
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Ginger (voice)
2023
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Self
2008
Reminiscence
Emily 'Watts' Sanders
2021
The Chronicles of Riddick
Dame Vaako
2004
RocknRolla
Stella
2008
Run Fatboy Run
Libby
2007
Elle Style Awards
Self - Winner
1997
Gringo
Bonnie Soyinka
2018
Shade
Tiffany
2003
The Truth About Charlie
Regina Lambert
2002
God's Country
Sandra Guidry
2022
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
Journalist
2019
Vanishing on 7th Street
Rosemary
2010
For Colored Girls
Tangie / Orange
2010
W.
Condoleezza Rice
2008
The Wanted Man
Francesca Carmichael
2027
Beloved
Beloved
1998
Jefferson in Paris
Sally Hemings
1995
The Young Americans
Rachael Stevens
1993
Flirting
Thandiwe Adjewa
1991
Gridlock'd
Cookie
1997
Family Feud
Joan
2018
Half of a Yellow Sun
Olanna
2013
The Journey of August King
Annalees
1995
Good Deeds
Lindsey
2012
The Leading Man
Hilary Rule
1996
Retreat
Kate
2011
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
Self
2010
Cry to Heaven
First Day on Earth
Anya
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
Self
2020
Huge
Kris
2010
President
Executive Producer
2023
It Was an Accident
Noreen Hurlock
2000
The Prophet
Narrator
2011
Father and Son: On Screen and Off
2007
Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream
Self
2007
Besieged
Shandurai
1998
In Your Dreams
Clare
1997
The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa
The Mona Lisa
2006
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
Self
2010
Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon
Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
Pirate Prince
Becky Newton
1991
Liyana
Executive Producer
2017
Loaded
Zita
1994