Biography
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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Complete Filmography

Anaconda
2025
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
2024
as Eshe (voice)
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
2023
as Ginger (voice)
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
2023
Executive Producer
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
2022
as Sandra Guidry
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
2022
as Celia Harrison
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
2021
as Emily 'Watts' Sanders
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
2020
as Self
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
2019
as Journalist
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
2018
as Val
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
2018
as Bonnie Soyinka
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
2018
as Joan
Jay-Z aims to unite the new and older generations of rap fans, while also reflecting on his own infidelity.

Liyana
2017
Executive Producer
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
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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
2013
as Olanna
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
2012
as Lindsey
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
2011
as Kate
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
2011
as Narrator
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
2010
as Tangie / Orange
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
2010
as Rosemary
A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of surv...

Huge
2010
as Kris
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
2010
as Self
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
2010
as Self
A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the project.

2012
2009
as Laura Wilson
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns t...

W.
2008
as Condoleezza Rice
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
2008
as Self
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
2008
as Stella
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
2007
as Libby
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
2007
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
2007
as Self
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
2007
as Kate Thomas
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
2006
as Linda
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
2006
as The Mona Lisa
Leonardo Da Vinci and his muse the Mona Lisa must stand up to the interrogation of their worth in our modern world.

Crash
2005
as Christine Thayer
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
2004
as Dame Vaako
After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the fu...

Shade
2003
as Tiffany
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
2002
as Regina Lambert
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
2000
as Noreen Hurlock
An ex-con gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Mission: Impossible II
2000
as Nyah Hall
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
1998
as Beloved
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
1998
as Shandurai
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
1997
as Clare
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
1997
as Barbara 'Cookie' Cook
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
1996
as Hilary Rule
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
1995
as Annalees
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
1995
as Sally Hemings
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
1994
as Yvette
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

Loaded
1994
as Zita
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
1993
as Rachael Stevens
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
1991
as Becky Newton
Jack Prince, a British renegade, joins a rebellion and becomes one of the most feared pirates in the Caribbean

Flirting
1991
as Thandiwe Adjewa
Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differen...