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Thandie Newton Wiki Biography

Melanie Thandiwe Newton was born on 6 November 1972, in Westminster, London, England, of English and Zimbabwean descent. Thandie is an actress, known from her appearances in various British and American films, including having parts in “Mission: Impossible 2” and “Westworld”. She’s been active in the industry since 1991, and all of her efforts have helped put her net worth to where it is today.

How rich is Thandie Newton? As of early-2018, sources estimate a net worth that is at $17.5 million, mostly earned through a successful career in acting. She’s won numerous awards throughout the course of her career, and also many more nominations. As she continues her career, it is expected that her wealth will also continue to increase.

Thandie attended the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts where she studied dance. After matriculating, she attended Downing College, Cambridge in 1992, studying social anthropology, and would graduate with upper second class honors (2:1).

In 1991, Newton made her film debut in “Flirting”, however, she would get her breakthrough when she was cast in the film “Interview with the Vampire”, playing the role of house slave Yvette.

She then appeared in several more films, including “Jefferson in Paris” and “Beloved” which is based on the novel of the same name by Toni Morrison, also playing a slave girl. Her net worth continued to increase as more opportunities came her way, including in “Mission: Impossible 2” starring with Tom Cruise. In 2003, Newton joined the cast of the television series “ER”, in which she played the love interest and later wife of Dr. John Carter, reprising her role in the series finale. She then appeared as a part of the film “The Chronicles of Riddick”, and would win a BAFTA Award for her role in the film “Crash”. In 2007, she was cast as a co-star in the comedy “Norbit”, alongside Eddie Murphy, and would also feature in the film “W”. in which she portrayed US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Thandie’s next major film would be “2012”, directed by Ronald Emmerich and released in 2009. Two years later, she then delivered a TED talk, about how she grew up in two distinct cultures. In 2012, she starred in the drama film “Good Deeds”, before starring in the TV series “Rogue”, eventually leaving the show during the third season, but adding steadily to her net worth.

A few of Thandie’s latest projects include “Westworld” in which she portrays Maeve Millay, and she is also set to appear in the 2018 film “Solo: A Star Wars Story”.

For her personal life, it is known that Newton married director, producer, and writer Ol Parker in 1998, and they have three children together. She has expressed an affinity for Buddhism, and has participated in various charity efforts too. She is also a vegan and has been featured by PETA.

In one interview, she revealed that she was a victim of a director who repeatedly showed friends a video of her in a sexually graphic audition during her teens.

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Thandie Newton Quotes

• When I am out and about I feel watched. It’s become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.
• Ten years ago, I probably would have bemoaned the fact that I started out [in the film business] so young – but now I’m grateful – truly grateful. [September 2008]
• God, yeah, I’m good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That’s me!
• I don’t put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take. What is lovely is that I’ll get sent a small movie, and you know that by virtue of me being involved they get their money and that’s fantastic.
• Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It’s a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it. Not to put too fine a point on it, there’s something about the shame that goes with sexual exploitation, deviance, whatever. As a woman, having a baby psychologically erases it all from your body. And that, for me, was incredibly important.
• I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it’s not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.
• It was hysterical. We wanted to make it naughty and fun. When the camera stopped rolling, it was hard to stop laughing. – about her love scene with Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible II (2000).

Thandie Newton Important Facts

• Returned to work 5 months after giving birth to her son Booker to begin filming Westworld (2016).
• According to Thandie, her mother is a Princess of the Shona Tribe.
• Was 6 months pregnant with her son Booker when she completed filming the 2nd season of Rogue (2013).
• Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 41, a son Booker Jombe Parker on March 3, 2014. Child’s father is her husband, Ol Parker.
• Returned to work 8 months after giving birth to her daughter Nico to begin filming The Pursuit of Happyness (2006).
• Was 2 months pregnant with her daughter Nico when she completed filming Crash (2004).
• Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 32, a daughter Nico Parker in mid December 2004. Child’s father is her husband, Ol Parker.
• Gave birth to her 1st child at age 27, a daughter Ripley Parker on 17 September 2000. Child’s father is her husband, Ol Parker.
• Daughter of Nick Newton and Nyasha Newton and sister of Jamie Newton.
• In July 2011, in a speech at the TEDGlobal 2011 Conference, Newton disclosed that earlier in her career, she struggled with the eating disorder bulimia.
• Delivered both of her daughters naturally via a birthing pool.
• Her full first name is pronounced tan-DEE-way.
• Her younger daughter was named for German-born singer Nico, member of the legendary rock group The Velvet Underground.
• She named her daughter Ripley after the character played by Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979).
• Graduated with a 2:1 (otherwise known as “an undergraduate degree with 2nd Class Honours, Upper Division”)in Anthropology from Cambridge University.
• Ranked #48 in Stuff magazine’s “102 Sexiest Women in the World” (2002)
• Raised in Penzance, Cornwall, England.
• One of her fondest memories is watching her mother get dressed in her traditional African garb because it taught her black pride.
• A delayed shoot for Mission: Impossible II (2000) caused Thandie to turn down one of the lead roles in Charlie’s Angels (2000). Lucy Liu was cast instead.
• Voted by the readers of Black Men Magazine as one of “The 10 Sexiest Women of the Year.” [2000]
• Her full name, Thandiwe, means “beloved.”
• She has a Zimbabwean mother and a British father.

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