Thandie Newton OBE (conceived Melanie Thandiwe Newton; 6 November 1972) is an English actress. Newton is known for her featuring jobs, for example, the title character in Beloved (1998), Nyah Nordoff-Hall in Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), Christine in Crash (2004), for which she got a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Similarly, Linda in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Stella in RockNRolla (2008), Condoleezza Rice in W. (2008), Laura Wilson in 2012 (2009), and as Val in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). 

Since 2016, Newton has played the conscious android, the madam Maeve Millay, in the HBO sci-fi western arrangement Westworld, for which she earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and two Critics Choice Awards, just as Golden Globe Award, Saturn Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award selections.

In 2017, she depicted DCI Roz Huntley in the BBC dramatization arrangement Line of Duty, which earned her a designation for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. 

Newton was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honors for administrations to film and to a noble cause. 

Early life 

Newton was conceived in Westminster, London, England, the girl of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean princess of the Shona individuals (as indicated by Newton), and Nick Newton, an English lab specialist and craftsman.

Her origin has been erroneously answered to be Zambia in certain life stories, yet she has affirmed in interviews that she was conceived in London. The name "Thandiwe" signifies "adored" in Ndebele, Zulu, Xhosa or Swati, and "Thandie" is articulated/ˈtændi/in English. 

As to youth, Newton commented at a TED meeting, "From about the age of five, I knew that I didn't fit. I was the dark, skeptic kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an oddity."

Newton was raised in London and Penzance, Cornwall and contemplated move at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Somewhere in the range of 1992 and 1995, Newton went to Downing College, Cambridge, where she considered social humanities. 

Vocation 

After the film Flirting (1991), Newton played the slave "Yvette" in the Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise film Interview with the Vampire (1994). Newton showed up in the Merchant Ivory creation of Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemings, trailed by Jonathan Demme's dramatization Beloved, in light of Toni Morrison's tale (1998), in which she played the title character, the phantom of a youthful slave young lady whose mother kills her to spare her from servitude.

The film additionally featured Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. Newton at that point featured as Nyah Nordoff-Hall, again inverse Cruise, in Mission: Impossible 2. Her next job was in the low-spending film It Was an Accident, composed by her better half, screenwriter Ol Parker. 

Somewhere in the range of 2003 and 2005, Newton played Makemba "Kem" Likasu, love enthusiasm of John Carter on the American TV arrangement ER. She repeated the job for the arrangement finale in 2009.

In 2004, she likewise showed up in The Chronicles of Riddick and Crash. Newton won a BAFTA grant for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for her job in Crash. She played Chris Gardner's significant other, Linda Gardner, in The Pursuit of Happyness. Likewise in 2006, Newton performed on radio in an emulate rendition of Cinderella. 

In 2007, Newton co-featured with Eddie Murphy in the parody Norbit as his affection intrigue, and afterward inverse Simon Pegg as his ex in the 2008 satire Run Fatboy Run.

Newton next depicted US National Security Advisor-turned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in W., Oliver Stone's memoir of President George W. Bramble. The film was discharged 17 October 2008. 

Newton was a speaker at Wembley Stadium on 7 July 2007, for the UK leg of Live Earth. She was expected to acquaint Al Gore with the show, yet he was deferred, leaving Newton to make wisecracks trying to engage the crowd.

Newton next depicted anecdotal US First Daughter Laura Wilson in 2012, a debacle movie coordinated by Roland Emmerich and discharged 13 November 2009. 

In July 2011, Newton conveyed a TED Talk on "Grasping otherness, grasping myself." She examined discovering her "otherness" as a kid experiencing childhood in two particular societies, and as an on-screen character playing a wide range of selves. In 2012, she featured close by Tyler Perry in the sentimental dramatization film Good Deeds.

In 2013, Newton featured in Rogue, the main unique show arrangement for DirecTV's Audience Network. She left Rogue during the third season. In 2015, she featured in the US miniseries The Slap. 

In 2016, Newton started depicting Maeve Millay in HBO sci-fi show arrangement Westworld, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, among different honors.

In 2017, she filled in as a storyteller for the narrative entitled Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon, a confession on the rape charges laid against Cosby, which circulated on BBC One. Newton showed up as Val in the Star Wars film Solo: A Star Wars Story, which was discharged in May 2018. 

Individual life 

Newton wedded English essayist, executive, and maker Ol Parker in 1998. They have three kids: girls Ripley (b. 2000) and Nico (b. 2004), and child Booker Jombe (b. 2014). Newton had home births with each of the three of her kids. She is veggie lover and was named PETA's "Hottest Vegan of 2014" in the UK. 

In 2006 Newton contributed a foreword to We Wish: Hopes and Dreams of Cornwall's Children, a book of youngsters' composing distributed in help of the NSPCC.

In it, she expounded distinctively on her beloved recollections of experiencing childhood in Cornwall, and the manner by which the region's social legacy made it simple for her to "advance each circumstance with layers of enchantment and importance." 

In 2007 Newton sold her close new BMW X5 and supplanted it with a Toyota Prius after Greenpeace stuck a "This gas-swallowing 4x4 is causing environmental change" sticker on her BMW.

In 2008 Newton visited neediness stricken Mali, portraying it as a "lowering experience." She visited the town of Nampasso in the Ségou Region of the nation. In 2013 Newton drove the One Billion Rising blaze horde in London, for a conclusion to brutality, and for equity and sexual orientation equity. 

David Schwimmer (who coordinated Run Fatboy Run) called the on-screen character "the sovereign of handy jokes." Newton has communicated a liking for Buddhism. 

In 2016, Newton expressed she had been the casualty of a chief who more than once demonstrated his companions a video of her in an explicitly realistic tryout which she made as a young person.

Newton referred to this experience just like a piece of why she had played the Westworld job, which included generous bareness, as it reflected the encounters of overcomers of sexual maltreatment while additionally posing moral inquiries about the importance of humankind and being sympathetic.

In 2018, Newton said she was frustrated not to have been welcome to take an interest in Time's Up, a development against lewd behavior, taking into account that she had encountered being "segregated" for standing up against supposed sexual maltreatment by an executive. 

She was positioned outstanding amongst other dressed ladies in 2018 by design site Net-a-Porter and soon thereafter it was declared that Newton was remembered for the 2019 release of the Powerlist, positioning the 100 most persuasive Black Britons. 

Her Nightmare with Tom Cruise Story from 'Mission Impossible: 2' 

Thandie Newton makes every effort possible in another Vulture talk with covering her almost three decades as a working entertainer.

Newton gets mercilessly legit about a bunch of professions characterizing ventures, from her developing dissatisfactions over "Westworld" to her issues shooting the rape scene in "Crash," and one of Newton's most outstanding stories includes the creation of "Crucial: 2."

Newton was given a role as Tom Cruise's adoration intrigue Nyah Nordoff-Hall in the John Woo-coordinated activity spin-off. One second with Cruise on set ends up being a bad dream. 

"I was so terrified of Tom. He was a prevailing individual," Newton said. "He makes a decent attempt to be a pleasant individual. In any case, the weight. He takes on a great deal. What's more, I think he has this feeling no one but he can do everything as well as can be expected to be finished." 

Newton recollected a period she blew up with Cruise during a shooting of a night scene in which their characters were to have an extreme, angry second together on a gallery.

The on-screen character said John Woo settled on a choice during the creation of "Crucial: 2" not to communicate in English, which made it hard to work out and nail scenes.

Cruise was not content with Newton's exhibition during the scene being referred to and got "so disappointed" that he did them switch jobs so he could carry on what he needed from Newton's presentation before her.