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Thandiwe Adjewa
"Thandie" Newton (born 6 November 1972, is a
BAFTA Award-winning English actress.
Early life: Newton was born in Zambia, to a white
English lab technician and artist, Nick Newton, and a
Zimbabwean health-care worker, Nyasha. The name
"Thandiwe" means "beloved" in
Ndebele and the name "Thandie" is pronounced
TAN-dee. Newton played a character named
"Beloved" in the film adaptation of the Toni
Morrison novel Beloved in 1998. According to Newton, her
mother is a Zimbabwean Shona Princess. She was raised in
Zambia and Penzance, Cornwall, England, and educated at
Downing College, University of Cambridge.
Career: Newton made her film debut in Flirting
(1991). This Australian movie was also a launch pad for
a young Nicole Kidman, with whom she has remained
friends. She gained international recognition opposite
Nick Nolte in the Merchant-Ivory production of Jefferson
in Paris as Sally Hemmings, which led to her being cast
in Jonathan Demme's Beloved (1998), in which she played
the title character and costarred with Danny Glover,
Kimberly Elise, and Oprah Winfrey. She played the female
lead Nyah Hall in the film Mission: Impossible II. When
this film went over schedule, she had to pull out of the
film Charlie's Angels, and her character ultimately went
to Lucy Liu.
Fine-boned and soft-spoken, Thandie Newton displays a
deceptive fragility that is betrayed by the strong,
resilient characters she often portrays. The actress was
born in Zambia in 1972 to a Zimbabwean mother and
British father who moved their family to London when
Newton was four. It was while a student at a private
school in North London that the actress met Australian
director John Duigan, who was casting his coming-of-age
tale Flirting (1991). Newton won a leading role as the
smart, worldly girlfriend of the film's protagonist and
starred alongside a then-relatively unknown Nicole
Kidman. Her next film of any significance was 1994's
Interview With the Vampire, in which she had a minor
role alongside Kidman's then-husband, Tom Cruise.
The same year, Newton acted as part of an ensemble cast
in Loaded, a fairly obscure film directed by Anna
Campion, sister of The Piano's Jane Campion. She was
then reunited with Flirting director Duigan in 1995 for
The Journey of August King, a little-seen feature in
which she starred with Jason Patric. Greater recognition
came in the form of the same year's Jefferson in Paris,
a critically maligned but impressively cast film, in
which Newton played Sally Hemings, slave and lover of
Nick Nolte's Thomas Jefferson. Acting alongside
individuals such as Nolte, James Earl Jones, and Gwyneth
Paltrow certainly did little to hurt Newton's reputation
and the next year she had yet another starring role,
this time opposite Jon Bon Jovi in her third film with
director Duigan, The Leading Man.
Despite her leading status, Newton still hovered on the
border of relative obscurity, something that finally
began to change with three 1998 films in which she had
major roles. The first was Vondie Curtis-Hall's
Gridlock'd, a film that won Newton raves for her turn as
a heroine-addicted jazz singer opposite Tim Roth and
Tupac Shakur. Beloved, Newton's second film that year,
won her further recognition, both for her mere presence
in the highly anticipated adaptation of Toni Morrison's
novel, and for her portrayal of the mysterious, ghostly
girl who torments Oprah Winfrey's Sethe.
Finally, it was with her third film of 1998, Besieged,
that Newton graduated from relative obscurity to the
rank of Hollywood Up and Comer. The film, which was
directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and co-starred David
Thewlis, received stellar reviews, many of which singled
out Newton's performance for particular praise. This,
along with a coveted spot on the April 1999 cover of
Vanity Fair's annual Hollywood Issue, further cemented
the actress' well-deserved status as one of the
industry's latest Forces to Be Reckoned With.
In 2000, Newton further ascended the ranks of
recognition when she starred opposite former Interview
With the Vampire co-star Tom Cruise in John Woo's
Mission: Impossible II; although the film received mixed
reviews, Newton earned almost unanimous approval from
critics, who praised her strong, dynamic performance.
Newton recently played Kem, the love interest of Dr.
John Carter on the American television series ER. She
also appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick. She appeared
in Crash as a wealthy black woman who, along with her
husband, finds herself the target of a racist policeman
(played by Matt Dillon). The policeman molests her
before ultimately saving her life. Newton was honoured
with a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006.
Crash also won the Academy Award for Best Picture in
2005.
It has been rumoured that Newton has been shortlisted to
play the role of DCI Gene Hunt's new sidekick, DI Alex
Drake in Ashes to Ashes - the sequel series to Life On
Mars. According to the Daily Mail, producers have
shortlisted Liz May Brice, of Bad Girls, New Street
Law's Lisa Faulkner and Thandie Newton. The paper added
that Newton is tipped to win the role.
Personal life: Newton married English writer and
director Ol Parker in 1997. The couple has two
daughters: Ripley, born in 2000, and Nico, born in 2004.
Her daughters were named after the character Ripley in
the Alien films and the cult singer of The Velvet
Underground fame.
She is friends with Nicole Kidman, who recommended her
to her then-husband Tom Cruise as the female lead in
Mission: Impossible II. She is also extremely close with
the powerful British media family the Adams-Taylors;
whose eldest daughter, Jessica, is a childhood friend,
and godmother to her daughter Ripley.
In 2006, she contributed a foreword to We Wish: Hopes
and Dreams of Cornwall's Children, a book of children's
writing published in aid of the NSPCC. In it, she writes
vividly about her childhood memories of growing up in
Cornwall and the way in which the county's vibrant
cultural heritage made it easy for her to "enrich
every situation with layers of magic and meaning".
Thandie Newton, the Bafta award-winning star of the film
Crash, has swapped her BMW X5 for a Toyota Prius after
protesters bombarded the car with eggs at the gates of
her son’s school. She then wrote to her celebrity
friends, asking them to join her in switching to more
environmentally sound cars.
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