Newton next portrayed fictional US First Daughter Laura Wilson in 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released 13 November 2009. She 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. Newton was an introducer at Wembley Stadium on 7 July 2007, for the UK leg of Live Earth. She next portrayed Condoleezza Rice, US National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State in W., Oliver Stone's biography of President George W. She played opposite Simon Pegg as his ex-girlfriend in the 2008 comedy Run Fatboy Run. In 2007, Newton co-starred with Eddie Murphy as his love interest in the comedy Norbit. Also in 2006, Newton performed on radio in a pantomime version of Cinderella. She played Chris Gardner's wife, Linda Gardner, in The Pursuit of Happyness. She won a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for her role in Crash.
In 2004, she also appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick and Crash.
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She reprised the role for the series finale in 2009. Career īetween 20, Newton played Makemba "Kem" Likasu, love interest of John Carter on the American television series ER. She studied dance at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, then studied at Downing College, Cambridge, where she obtained a degree in social anthropology in 1995. I was an anomaly." She began dropping the letter "w" from her first name, making it "Thandie" (pronounced / ˈ t æ n d i/ TAN-dee).
I was the black atheist kid in the all-white Catholic school run by nuns. She later said of her upbringing, "From about the age of five, I was aware that I didn't fit. She attended St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School. When Newton was three years old, she returned with her family to England, where they settled in Penzance so her father could help run his family's antique business. "Thandiwe" is a name of Nguni origin and means "beloved". This has led her birthplace to be incorrectly reported as Zambia in some sources, but she has confirmed in interviews that she was born in Westminster. Her parents lived in Zambia, and she was born while they were back in England to visit relatives they then returned to Zambia, where her younger brother was born. Her mother was a member of a Shona chieftaincy family, while her father worked as a laboratory technician and artist. Melanie Thandiwe Newton was born in the Westminster area of London on 6 November 1972, the daughter of Zimbabwean mother Nyasha Jombe and English father Nick Newton. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to film and charity. 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. (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 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. Melanie Thandiwe Newton OBE ( / ˈ t æ n d i w eɪ/ TAN-dee-way born 6 November 1972), formerly credited as Thandie Newton ( / ˈ t æ n d i/ TAN-dee), is a British actress.
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