Thandiwe Newton

Thandiwe Newton

1972-11-06 London, England, UK 51 Credits

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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 ...

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Anaconda

Anaconda

2025

Acting

A group of friends facing mid-life crises head to the rainforest with the intention of remaking their favorite movie from their youth, only to find th...

Mufasa: The Lion King

Mufasa: The Lion King

2024

as Eshe (voice)

7.4
Acting

Mufasa, a cub lost and alone, meets a sympathetic lion named Taka, the heir to a royal bloodline. The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journ...

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

2023

as Ginger (voice)

7.0
Acting

A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a nearby farm that's cooking up something suspicious.

President

President

2023

Executive Producer

7.5
Producing

Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The leader of the opposition MDC party, Nelson Chamisa, challenges the old guard ZANU-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, known...

God's Country

God's Country

2022

as Sandra Guidry

5.7
Acting

When a grieving college professor confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with c...

All the Old Knives

All the Old Knives

2022

as Celia Harrison

6.0
Acting

When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives, veteran operative Henry Pelham is assigned to ...

Reminiscence

Reminiscence

2021

as Emily 'Watts' Sanders

6.6
Acting

Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offe...

Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times

Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times

2020

as Self

10.0
Acting

Nations United is a special, first of its kind film, created by the United Nations on its 75th Anniversary and to mark five years since the adoption o...

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

2019

as Journalist

6.9
Acting

A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as ...

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Solo: A Star Wars Story

2018

as Val

6.6
Acting

Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and enco...

Gringo

Gringo

2018

as Bonnie Soyinka

5.9
Acting

An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mex...

Family Feud

Family Feud

2018

as Joan

2.5
Acting

Jay-Z aims to unite the new and older generations of rap fans, while also reflecting on his own infidelity.

Liyana

Liyana

2017

Executive Producer

8.8
Producing

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.

Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon

Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon

2017

as Self - Narrator (voice)

10.0
Acting

The story of how one of American television's brightest and wealthiest stars finally came to face a criminal trial for sexual assault a decade after t...

Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun

2013

as Olanna

4.9
Acting

An epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very ...

Good Deeds

Good Deeds

2012

as Lindsey

6.2
Acting

For all his life, wealthy businessman Wesley Deeds has done what's expected of him and has settled into a predictable routine. His scripted life begin...

Retreat

Retreat

2011

as Kate

5.6
Acting

Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a man ...

The Prophet

The Prophet

2011

as Narrator

7.8
Acting

Gary Tarn has grappled with the Lebanese poet and thinker Kahlil Gibran's classic 'The Prophet' from 1923, which is famous worldwide for its main char...

For Colored Girls

For Colored Girls

2010

as Tangie / Orange

6.7
Acting

About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of tw...

Vanishing on 7th Street

Vanishing on 7th Street

2010

as Rosemary

5.3
Acting

A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of surv...

Huge

Huge

2010

as Kris

5.6
Acting

A feuding double act try to make it in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy.

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

2010

as Self

7.0
Acting

This documentary features the 2012 film's cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the famed Disaster movie director (i.e. Roland Emmeric...

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

2010

as Self

7.8
Acting

A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the project.

2012

2012

2009

as Laura Wilson

5.9
Acting

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns t...

W.

W.

2008

as Condoleezza Rice

6.2
Acting

The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith—and the critical days leading up...

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

2008

as Self

6.0
Acting

Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attra...

RocknRolla

RocknRolla

2008

as Stella

7.0
Acting

When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their shar...

Run Fatboy Run

Run Fatboy Run

2007

as Libby

6.2
Acting

Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.

Father and Son: On Screen and Off

Father and Son: On Screen and Off

2007

6.0
Acting

A look into Will and Jaden Smith's father and son bond on and off the screen of The Pursuit of Happyness

Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream

Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream

2007

as Self

9.0
Acting

This is a "making of" documentary for the hit film "The Pursuit of Happyness". It chronicles a foreign director's perspective on The American Dream, a...

Norbit

Norbit

2007

as Kate Thomas

5.7
Acting

A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.

The Pursuit of Happyness

The Pursuit of Happyness

2006

as Linda

7.9
Acting

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa

The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa

2006

as The Mona Lisa

10.0
Acting

Leonardo Da Vinci and his muse the Mona Lisa must stand up to the interrogation of their worth in our modern world.

Crash

Crash

2005

as Christine Thayer

7.2
Acting

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a...

The Chronicles of Riddick

The Chronicles of Riddick

2004

as Dame Vaako

6.5
Acting

After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the fu...

Shade

Shade

2003

as Tiffany

6.2
Acting

Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean ...

The Truth About Charlie

The Truth About Charlie

2002

as Regina Lambert

4.8
Acting

Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return ...

It Was an Accident

It Was an Accident

2000

as Noreen Hurlock

6.6
Acting

An ex-con gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Mission: Impossible II

Mission: Impossible II

2000

as Nyah Hall

6.1
Acting

With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former...

Beloved

Beloved

1998

as Beloved

5.8
Acting

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Belov...

Besieged

Besieged

1998

as Shandurai

6.7
Acting

While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do...

In Your Dreams

In Your Dreams

1997

as Clare

5.5
Acting

The second of three contemporary stories showing in the Love Bites 1997 season. Clare accuses fellow-student Jamie of raping her after their first da...

Gridlock'd

Gridlock'd

1997

as Barbara 'Cookie' Cook

6.7
Acting

After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are ha...

The Leading Man

The Leading Man

1996

as Hilary Rule

5.0
Acting

Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a mas...

The Journey of August King

The Journey of August King

1995

as Annalees

6.7
Acting

The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does e...

Jefferson in Paris

Jefferson in Paris

1995

as Sally Hemings

5.1
Acting

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult...

Interview with the Vampire

Interview with the Vampire

1994

as Yvette

7.4
Acting

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

Loaded

Loaded

1994

as Zita

3.9
Acting

A group of young friends convene in the countryside to shoot a horror movie. But an experiment with LSD sees normal boundaries between them collapsing...

The Young Americans

The Young Americans

1993

as Rachael Stevens

5.8
Acting

Experienced New York Police Detective John Harris is sent to London to help a local task force investigate a series of gangster killings organized by ...

Pirate Prince

Pirate Prince

1991

as Becky Newton

10.0
Acting

Jack Prince, a British renegade, joins a rebellion and becomes one of the most feared pirates in the Caribbean

Flirting

Flirting

1991

as Thandiwe Adjewa

6.7
Acting

Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differen...