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Birthday:

11-06-1972 (52 years)

Birthplace:

London, England, UK

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 (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.

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Mission: Impossible II

Act like Nyah Hall

event2000 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

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 IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.

The Pursuit of Happyness

Act like Linda

event2006 star_border 7.9 top_panel_open

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

Interview with the Vampire

Act like Yvette

event1994 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

Crash

Act like Christine Thayer

event2005 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

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 pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.

Act like Condoleezza Rice

event2008 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

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 to his decision to invade Iraq.

The Chronicles of Riddick

Act like Dame Vaako

event2004 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, reluctant hero will emerge as humanity's champion - and the last hope for a universe on the edge of annihilation.

God's Country

Act like Sandra Guidry

event2022 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

When a grieving college professor confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.

Flirting

Act like Thandiwe Adjewa

event1991 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently.

Run Fatboy Run

Act like Libby

event2007 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.

The Young Americans

Act like Rachael Stevens

event1993 star_border 5.9 top_panel_open

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 a new player in town, an American. With the help of a young teen wronged by gangsters, Harris navigates London's seedy, drug-fuelled underworld in order to take down its new criminal empire.

Norbit

Act like Kate Thomas

event2007 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

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.

Gridlock'd

Act like Barbara 'Cookie' Cook

event1997 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

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 hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.

The Truth About Charlie

Act like Regina Lambert

event2002 star_border 4.8 top_panel_open

Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return to Paris, she finds that both her apartment and her bank account have been emptied, and her husband has been murdered. The more Reggie learns, the more she realizes the scope of the puzzle which she must solve to protect herself from ever-increasing danger.

RocknRolla

Act like Stella

event2008 star_border 7 top_panel_open

When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice.

2012

Act like Laura Wilson

event2009 star_border 5.9 top_panel_open

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.

Shade

Act like Tiffany

event2003 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

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 Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game. However, they first need enough money to enter a game with Stevens, so they decide to strike a deal with fellow crook Larry Jennings to scam a local gangster -- which turns out to be a bad idea.

Vanishing on 7th Street

Act like Rosemary

event2010 star_border 5.3 top_panel_open

A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of survivors band together in a dimly-lit tavern on 7th Street, struggling to combat the apocalyptic horror. Realizing they may in fact be the last people on earth, a dark shadow hones in on them alone.

The Journey of August King

Act like Annalees

event1995 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

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 every year after selling his produce and purchasing the stock and goods he will need to survive the winter. On his journey, he comes upon a run-away slave, a young woman about 19 and August King must decide to violate the law and help this slave to freedom or else leave her to be hunted down and, ultimately, returned to her slave owner.

Good Deeds

Act like Lindsey

event2012 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

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 begins to change, however, when he meets Lindsey Wakefield, a struggling single mother who works as a night janitor for his corporation and has just been evicted. He offers to help Lindsey get back on her feet and, though he's already engaged, romantic sparks begin to fly. Suddenly, he finds himself torn between what is expected of him and what he really wants.

For Colored Girls

Act like Tangie / Orange

event2010 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.

Besieged

Act like Shandurai

event1998 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

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 so is in love with her.

The Leading Man

Act like Hilary Rule

event1996 star_border 5.2 top_panel_open

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 masterpiece; but Felix can't enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with Hilary, a beautiful, fiesty young actress, and is preparing to desert his perfect family, his wife Elena and three lively children. His intolerable situation is further complicated when Humphrey casts Hilary as one of the leads in 'The Hit Man'. Enter Robin Grange, a charismatic young Hollywood actor making his London theatre debut. Robin is attractive, charming and dangerous, and soon inveigles his way into everyone's life. He ingratiates himself with the cast and, quickly grasping Felix's dilemma, sets about weaving his web of mischief. He suggests that if he were to seduce Elena, she would be distracted from Felix's affair, regain her self respect, and perhaps even willingly part from the unfaithful husband to whom she clings...

Beloved

Act like Beloved

event1998 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

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 "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Act like Ginger (voice)

event2023 star_border 7 top_panel_open

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.

Loaded

Act like Zita

event1994 star_border 3.9 top_panel_open

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, and tragedy subsequently striking.

Retreat

Act like Kate

event2011 star_border 5.6 top_panel_open

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 is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.

Half of a Yellow Sun

Act like Olanna

event2013 star_border 5.1 top_panel_open

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 different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up in the turbulence of war.

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Act like Self

event2008 star_border 6 top_panel_open

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, attracting the attention of Clayton Harding, editor of New York-based glossy magazine 'Sharps', and landing the holy grail of journalism jobs. The Brit jets off to the Big Apple and moves from one blunder to the next.

It Was an Accident

Act like Noreen Hurlock

event2000 star_border 7 top_panel_open

An ex-con gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Jefferson in Paris

Act like Sally Hemings

event1995 star_border 5.2 top_panel_open

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.

Pirate Prince

Act like Becky Newton

event1991 star_border 10 top_panel_open

Jack Prince, a British renegade, joins a rebellion and becomes one of the most feared pirates in the Caribbean

Mufasa: The Lion King

Act like Eshe (voice)

event2024 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

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 journey of a group of misfits searching for their destiny.

Huge

Act like Kris

event2010 star_border 5.6 top_panel_open

A feuding double act try to make it in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy.

Gringo

Act like Bonnie Soyinka

event2018 star_border 5.9 top_panel_open

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 Mexico.

The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

Act like Journalist

event2019 star_border 6.9 top_panel_open

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 the impact those letters had on both their lives.

In Your Dreams

Act like Clare

event1997 star_border 5.5 top_panel_open

The second of three contemporary stories showing in the Love Bites 1997 season. Clare accuses fellow-student Jamie of raping her after their first date. Three months later they face each other in court.

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Act like Val

event2018 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

The Prophet

Act like Narrator

event2011 star_border 7.8 top_panel_open

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 character's simple, inspiring answers to the questions with which all of us grapple. From love to crime, from marriage to work, from beauty to the ultimate death. Instead of a traditional film adaptation Tarn has been guided by actress Thandie Newton's reading of the text - and then traveled around the world with his 16mm and HD camera and filmed people, situations and places that resonate with, rather than illustrate, the text's themes.

Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon

Act like Self - Narrator (voice)

event2017 star_border 10 top_panel_open

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 the accusations were first made.

Reminiscence

Act like Emily 'Watts' Sanders

event2021 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

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 offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client's memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

Act like Self

event2010 star_border 7 top_panel_open

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 Emmerich.)

The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa

Act like The Mona Lisa

event2006 star_border 10 top_panel_open

Leonardo Da Vinci and his muse the Mona Lisa must stand up to the interrogation of their worth in our modern world.

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

Act like Self

event2010 star_border 7.8 top_panel_open

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

Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream

Act like Self

event2007 star_border 9 top_panel_open

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, and the challenges in making the film.

Father and Son: On Screen and Off

event2007 star_border 6 top_panel_open

A look into Will and Jaden Smith's father and son bond on and off the screen of The Pursuit of Happyness

All the Old Knives

Act like Celia Harrison

event2022 star_border 6 top_panel_open

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 root out the mole with his former lover and colleague Celia Harrison.

Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times

Act like Self

event2020 star_border 10 top_panel_open

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 of the Sustainable Development Goals. In the midst of a pandemic radically transforming our world, Nations United tells the story of the world as it is, as it was, and as it could be. It focuses on the solutions and action we need to tackle poverty, inequality, injustice and climate change.

Family Feud

Act like Joan

event2018 star_border 2.5 top_panel_open

Jay-Z aims to unite the new and older generations of rap fans, while also reflecting on his own infidelity.

Anaconda

new_releases Release: December 25, 2025

Planned reboot.

American Dad!

Act like Makeva (voice) (2 ep.)

event2005 star_border 7 top_panel_open

The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."

The Slap

Act like Aisha (8 ep.)

event2015 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Hector and his wife Aisha plan a party for family and friends, but the day doesn't turn out as they expected when Hector's hot-headed cousin Harry slaps a misbehaving child. The party ends abruptly with the child's parents threatening legal action, and a chain of events is ignited that will uncover secrets, challenge core values, and leave the party guests and hosts forever changed.

Westworld

Act like Maeve Millay (36 ep.)

event2016 star_border 8 top_panel_open

A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

The Daily Show

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event1996 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

Rogue

Act like Grace Travis (40 ep.)

event2013 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

Grace, a morally and emotionally-conflicted undercover detective, is tormented by the possibility that her own actions contributed to her son’s death. Grace’s search for the truth is further complicated by her forbidden relationship with Jimmy, the crime boss who may have played a hand in the crime.

RuPaul's Drag Race

Act like Self - Special Guest (1 ep.)

event2009 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

Join RuPaul, the world's most famous drag queen, as the host, mentor and judge for the ultimate in drag queen competitions. The top drag queens in the U.S. will vie for drag stardom as RuPaul, in full glamazon drag, will reign supreme in all judging and eliminations while helping guide the contestants as they prepare for each challenge.

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event2005 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson, who is the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise. It follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup, airing weekdays in the US at 12:37 a.m. It is taped in front of a live studio audience from Monday to Friday at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, directly above the Bob Barker Studio. It is produced by David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated and CBS Television Studios. Since becoming host on January 3, 2005, after Craig Kilborn and Tom Snyder, Ferguson has achieved the highest ratings since the show's inception in 1995. While the majority of the episodes focus on comedy, Ferguson has also addressed difficult subject matter, such as the deaths of his parents, and undertaken serious interviews, such as one with Desmond Tutu, which earned the show a 2009 Peabody Award.

The Graham Norton Show

Act like Self (2 ep.)

event2007 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.

Line of Duty

Act like DCI Roz Huntley (6 ep.)

event2012 star_border 8.3 top_panel_open

A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.

The Late Late Show with James Corden

Act like Self - Guest (1 ep.)

event2015 star_border 5.4 top_panel_open

Once Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a late night talk show that interviews celebrities and has its own bits. And of course, it's all hosted by James Corden.

Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

Act like Narrator (voice) (14 ep.)

event2018 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women’s integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world’s greatest filmmakers – all of them women.

Human Resources

Act like Mona (voice) (1 ep.)

event2022 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

Lovebugs, Hormone Monsters and a parade of other creatures juggle romance, workplace drama and their human clients' needs in this "Big Mouth" spinoff.

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event2015 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

(1 ep.)

event2014 star_border 5.8 top_panel_open

After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program was brought back to New York.

Act like Makemba 'Kem' Likasu (10 ep.)

event1994 star_border 7.8 top_panel_open

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

The Big Narstie Show

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event2018 star_border 3.5 top_panel_open

Grime legend and social media sensation Big Narstie hosts an anarchic studio show along with his co-host, and the hottest comedian in town, Mo Gilligan.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event2015 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late night, where he talks with an eclectic mix of guests about what is new and relevant in the worlds of politics, entertainment, business, music, technology, and more. Featuring bandleader Jon Batiste with his band Stay Human, the Emmy Award-nominated show is broadcast from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater. Stephen Colbert, Chris Licht, Tom Purcell, and Jon Stewart are executive producers. Barry Julien and Denise Rehrig serve as co-executive producers.must watch

Off Camera with Sam Jones

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event2014 star_border 4 top_panel_open

Photographer and director Sam Jones sits down with the myriad professionals of television and movies, and other celebrities (great skateboarders, for example), to discuss their development before fame, their passions beyond their careers, and gives them a space to open up about their insight into their business and their own abilities. Filmed in black and white, with a few deep cushion chairs and sparse set, the show relies on Sam's ability to relate to the guests and their will to speak freely with him.

Big Mouth

Act like Mona (voice) (4 ep.)

event2017 star_border 7.7 top_panel_open

Teenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty in this edgy comedy from real-life pals Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg.

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Act like Self (1 ep.)

event2014 star_border 4.4 top_panel_open

PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and TV shows of the past year through candid conversations with today's hottest actors. Hosted by Variety Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis and Variety Chief Correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister, each episode brings together pairs of actors engaging in intimate one-on-one discussions about their craft and work.

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