Thandiwe Newton
Acting Born 1972 London, England, UK
84 credits
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. Read the full biography
Most recent
Newest release first.
-
Anaconda
2025
as Claire Simons
-
Mufasa: The Lion King
2024
as Eshe (voice)
-
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2023
as Ginger (voice)
-
President
2023
Executive Producer
-
Series Wednesday
2022
as Dr. Rachael Fairburn
-
God's Country
2022
as Sandra Guidry
-
Series The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
as Self - Guest
-
All the Old Knives
2022
as Celia Harrison
-
Series Human Resources
2022
as Mona (voice)
-
Reminiscence
2021
as Emily 'Watts' Sanders
-
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
2020
as Self
-
Series Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
2020
as Narrator (voice)
Explore
Their whole filmography in search, or one year of it.
Acting
82 credits
-
Anaconda
2025
as Claire Simons
-
Mufasa: The Lion King
2024
as Eshe (voice)
-
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2023
as Ginger (voice)
-
All the Old Knives
2022
as Celia Harrison
-
God's Country
2022
as Sandra Guidry
- Series
Human Resources
2022
as Mona (voice)
- Series
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
as Self - Guest
- Series
Wednesday
2022
as Dr. Rachael Fairburn
-
Reminiscence
2021
as Emily 'Watts' Sanders
-
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
2020
as Self
- Series
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
2020
as Narrator (voice)
-
Series RuPaul's Drag Race UK
2019
as Self - Guest Judge
-
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
2019
as Journalist
-
Family Feud
2018
as Joan
-
Gringo
2018
as Bonnie Soyinka
-
Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018
as Val
-
Series The Big Narstie Show
2018
as Self
-
Series Big Mouth
2017
as Mona (voice)
- Series
Big Mouth
2017
-
Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)
-
Series Westworld
2016
as Maeve Millay
-
Series Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
-
Series The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
as Self - Guest
-
Series The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self
Show 58 more Acting credits Hide 58 Acting credits
-
Series The Slap
2015
as Aisha
-
Series Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
as Self
-
Series The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
-
Series Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
-
Half of a Yellow Sun
2013
as Olanna
-
Series Rogue
2013
- Series
Rogue
2013
as Grace Travis
-
Good Deeds
2012
as Lindsey
-
Series Line of Duty
2012
as DCI Roz Huntley
-
Retreat
2011
as Kate
-
The Prophet
2011
as Narrator
-
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010
as Self
-
For Colored Girls
2010
as Tangie / Orange
-
Huge
2010
as Kris
-
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010
as Self
-
Vanishing on 7th Street
2010
as Rosemary
-
2012
2009
as Laura Wilson
-
Series RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
as Self - Guest Judge
- Series
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
as Self - Special Guest
-
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
as Self
-
RocknRolla
2008
as Stella
-
W.
2008
as Condoleezza Rice
-
Father and Son: On Screen and Off
2007
-
Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream
2007
as Self
-
Norbit
2007
as Kate Thomas
-
Run Fatboy Run
2007
as Libby
-
Series The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
-
The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa
2006
as The Mona Lisa
-
The Pursuit of Happyness
2006
as Linda
-
Series American Dad!
2005
as Makeva (voice)
-
Crash
2005
as Christine Thayer
-
Series The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
-
The Chronicles of Riddick
2004
as Dame Vaako
-
Series Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
- Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
-
Shade
2003
as Tiffany
-
The Truth About Charlie
2002
as Regina Lambert
-
It Was an Accident
2000
as Noreen Hurlock
-
Mission: Impossible II
2000
as Nyah Hall
-
Beloved
1998
as Beloved
-
Besieged
1998
as Shandurai
-
Series Elle Style Awards
1997
as Self - Winner
-
Gridlock'd
1997
as Cookie
-
In Your Dreams
1997
as Clare
-
Series The Daily Show
1996
as Self - Guest
-
The Leading Man
1996
as Hilary Rule
-
Jefferson in Paris
1995
as Sally Hemings
-
The Journey of August King
1995
as Annalees
-
Series ER
1994
as Kem Likasu
-
Interview with the Vampire
1994
as Yvette
-
Loaded
1994
as Zita
-
The Young Americans
1993
as Rachael Stevens
-
Flirting
1991
as Thandiwe Adjewa
-
Pirate Prince
1991
as Becky Newton
-
Series The Word
1990
as Self
-
Cry to Heaven
- Series
First Day on Earth
as Anya
- Series
The Wanted Man
Production
2 credits
-
President
2023
Executive Producer
-
Liyana
2017
Executive Producer