![]() ![]() She then wrote to her celebrity friends, asking them to join her in switching to more environmentally sound cars. Newton swapped her BMW X5 for a Toyota Prius after protesters bombarded the car with eggs at the gates of her daughters’ school. She visited the village of Nampasso in the Ségou Region of the country. In 2008, Newton visited poverty-stricken Mali, describing it as a "humbling experience". In it, she writes vividly about her childhood memories of growing up in Cornwall and the way in which the county's vibrant cultural heritage made it easy for her to "enrich every situation with layers of magic and meaning". In 2006, she contributed a foreword to We Wish: Hopes and Dreams of Cornwall's Children, a book of children's writing published in aid of the NSPCC. Her daughters were named after the character Ellen Ripley in the Alien films and the singer Nico. The couple have two daughters: Ripley, born in 2000, and Nico, born in 2004. Personal life: Newton married English writer/director/producer Ol Parker in 1998. Newton next portrayed the United States President's First Daughter Laura Wilson in 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released 13 November 2009. She was due to introduce Al Gore to the concert, but he was delayed, leaving Newton to tell jokes to try and entertain the audience. Newton was an introducer at Wembley Stadium on 7 July 2007 for the UK leg of Live Earth. National Security Advisor-turned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in W., Oliver Stone's film biography of President George W. In 2007, she starred alongside Eddie Murphy in the comedy Norbit as his love interest, and opposite Simon Pegg as his ex-girlfriend in the comedy Run Fat Boy Run. In addition to her film and television credits she played the title role in a 2006 radio pantomime version of Cinderella. She also played Chris Gardner's wife, Linda Gardner, in The Pursuit of Happyness. Newton was honoured with a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 for her role in Crash. In the latter, she played Christine Thayer, a wealthy black woman who, along with her husband, finds herself the target of a racist policeman (played by Matt Dillon), who sexually assaults Thayer but then later saves her life after he is the first on the scene at a car crash. In 2004 also appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick and Crash. She reprised the role once more for the series finale in 2009. John Carter on the American television series ER. Between 20, Newton played Makemba "Kem" Likasu, the love interest, and later wife of Dr. Her character ultimately went to Lucy Liu. She was originally going to play Alex Munday in the film Charlie's Angels, but turned it down to appear in the low-budget film It Was an Accident. She played the female lead Nyah Hall in the film Mission: Impossible II. She gained international recognition in the Merchant Ivory production of Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemings, which led to her being cast in Jonathan Demme's Beloved (1998), in which she played the title character alongside co-stars Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. She played the role of Brad Pitt's maid Yvette in Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994). Career: Newton start her career through Flirting movie in (1991). Raised in London and Penzance, Kernow/Cornwall, she went on to study social anthropology at Downing College, Cambridge, from 1992 to 1995, where she achieved a 2:1. According to Newton, her mother is a Zimbabwean Shona princess. The name "Thandiwe" means "beloved" in Ndebele, Zulu, Xhosa or Swazi, and "Thandie" is pronounced /ˈtændi/ TAN-dee in English. Her birthplace has been incorrectly reported to be Zambia in some biographies, but she has confirmed in interviews that she was born in London, during a two-week trip by her parents. Early life: Thandie Newton was born in London, though she is regarded as a great Cornish actress & is the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean health-care worker who was well respected amongst the Cornish community where she practised and Nick Newton, a Cornish laboratory technician and artist. ![]() She has appeared in a number of British and American films, including Norbit, The Pursuit of Happyness Run, Fat Boy, Run Mission: Impossible II Crash RocknRolla 2012 The Chronicles of Riddick and W. Thandiwe Nashita (Thandie" Newton) born on 6 November 1972. ![]()
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