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 (2009), Tangie Adrose in For Colored Girls (2010), Maeve Millay in Westworld (2016–2022), Roz Huntley in Line of Duty (2017), and Val in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). Newton has received various awards, including an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and two Critics' Choice Awards, in addition to nominations for two Golden Globe Awards, a Saturn Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to film and charity. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thandiwe Newton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

KNOWN FOR

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2020
The Daily Show
2021
American Dad!
2006
The Graham Norton Show
2008
RuPaul's Drag Race
2020
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2018
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2008
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2021
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2026
Westworld
2016
ER
2003

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
83
Producing
2
2027
The Wanted Man
as Francesca Carmichael · unreleased
2026
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self - Guest
2026
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
as Self - Guest Judge
2025
Anaconda
as Claire Simons
2025
Big Mouth
2025
Wednesday
as Dr. Rachael Fairburn
2024
Mufasa: The Lion King
as Eshe (voice)
2023
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
as Ginger (voice)
2022
God's Country
as Sandra Guidry
2022
All the Old Knives
as Celia Harrison
2022
Human Resources
as Mona (voice)
2021
Reminiscence
as Emily 'Watts' Sanders
2021
The Daily Show
as Self - Guest
2021
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2020
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
as Self
2020
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self - Special Guest
2020
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self - Guest Judge
2020
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2019
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
as Journalist
2019
Big Mouth
as Mona (voice)
2018
Gringo
as Bonnie Soyinka
2018
Solo: A Star Wars Story
as Val
2018
Family Feud
as Joan
2018
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
2018
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
as Narrator (voice)
2018
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2018
The Big Narstie Show
as Self
2017
Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
Line of Duty
as DCI Roz Huntley
2017
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2017
Rogue
2016
Westworld
as Maeve Millay
2016
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2015
The Slap
as Aisha
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2013
Half of a Yellow Sun
as Olanna
2013
Rogue
as Grace Travis
2012
Good Deeds
as Lindsey
2011
Retreat
as Kate
2011
The Prophet
as Narrator
2010
Vanishing on 7th Street
as Rosemary
2010
For Colored Girls
as Tangie / Orange
2010
Huge
as Kris
2010
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
as Self
2010
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
as Self
2009
2012
as Laura Wilson
2008
W.
as Condoleezza Rice
2008
RocknRolla
as Stella
2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Self
2008
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2008
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
Run Fatboy Run
as Libby
2007
Norbit
as Kate Thomas
2007
Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream
as Self
2007
Father and Son: On Screen and Off
2006
The Pursuit of Happyness
as Linda
2006
The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa
as The Mona Lisa
2006
American Dad!
as Makeva (voice)
2006
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2006
Parkinson
as Self - Guest
2005
Crash
as Christine Thayer
2004
The Chronicles of Riddick
as Dame Vaako
2003
Shade
as Tiffany
2003
ER
as Kem Likasu
2002
The Truth About Charlie
as Regina Lambert
2001
Elle Style Awards
as Self - Winner
2000
Mission: Impossible II
as Nyah Hall
2000
It Was an Accident
as Noreen Hurlock
1998
Besieged
as Shandurai
1998
Beloved
as Beloved
1997
Gridlock'd
as Cookie
1997
In Your Dreams
as Clare
1996
The Leading Man
as Hilary Rule
1995
The Journey of August King
as Annalees
1995
Jefferson in Paris
as Sally Hemings
1994
Interview with the Vampire
as Yvette
1994
Loaded
as Zita
1993
The Young Americans
as Rachael Stevens
1991
Flirting
as Thandiwe Adjewa
1991
Pirate Prince
as Becky Newton
1991
The Word
as Self
Cry to Heaven
First Day on Earth
as Anya