Most Recent Role: Herself on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Alias Name(s): Thandie Newton-Parker, Thandiwe Newton, Thandiwe Adjewa
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Zambia
Birthday: 11-6-1972
Birth Name: Thandie Newton
Alias Name(s): Thandie Newton-Parker, Thandiwe Newton, Thandiwe Adjewa
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Zambia
Birthday: 11-6-1972
Birth Name: Thandie Newton
Newton was born in Zambia, the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean health-care worker/nurse, and Nick Newton, a white English laboratory technician and artist. The name "Thandiwe" means "beloved" in Ndebele and the name "Thandie" is pronounced TAN-dee. Newton played a character named "Beloved" in the film adaptation of the Toni Morrison novel Beloved in 1998. According to Newton, her mother is a...
Most Recent Appearance
Thandie Newton/Dom Irrera/Bell X1
Tuesday 25 March 2008 on CBS
Guests on the show are actress Thandie Newton and comic Dom Irrera. Bell X1 performs.
Her height is 5'2" (1.57 m).
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She named her daughter Ripley, after the character in the Sigorney Weaver film Alien (1979).
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Her daughter Nico was born mid-December, 2004.
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She was born on the same day as actress/model Rebecca Romijn.
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She was Ranked #48 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002)
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Thandie Newton: (revealing she once asked Tupac Shakur about his tattoos) Because I'm not a typical home-girl, one of the first things I said to him was, 'What's that tattoo? It looks like a penis.' He laughed and laughed and laughed, I think it was actually a crucifix. My filthy English mind! He said (of his gunshot wound), 'It's a scar from being shot.' 'What? You were shot?' He's like, 'You don't know I was shot at point-blank range?' "He told me the whole story about how he was shot for the first time in the goolies (testicles), then his f**king skull. But it was someone sweet telling you the story.
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Thandie Newton: The film is driven by coincidence and preconception, ... Each character, whether they be rich, poor, black, white, Mexican or Iraqi, suffers these preconceptions about the other as a manifestation of personal frustration. You see the characters' motivation and see that behind the belligerent cop is a man in pain, behind the frustrated housewife is a woman who feels let down. Racism is just one part of the much bigger puzzle that the film offers.
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Thandie Newton: I just feel like it's got to be about the process and about the doing of it, rather than be about how it's going to be perceived. It's got to be about what it feels like at the time of actually making that project, because just a few times I've worked on projects because I think that it will seem great, or it will be a really good career move or about perception and I haven't had a good time.
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Thandie Newton: Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.
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Thandie Newton: Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.
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Other Appearances
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American Dad!
Camp Refoogee Makeva |
e-Talk Daily
December 12, 2006 Herself |
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e-Talk Daily
September 12, 2007 Herself |
ER
Refusal of Care Kem Likasu [uncredited voice only] |
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Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Ricky Hatton, Daniel Radcliffe, Thandie Newton, The Good, The Bad & The Queen. Herself |
Late Show with David Letterman
Show #1889 Guest |
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