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Thandie Newton: Nick Nolte
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Thandie Newton began her life in Zambia with parents Nick, an English artist, and Nyasha, a Zimbabawean health-care worker who ... happens to be a princess of the Shona tribe. When Thandie [pronounced: Tan-dee] was five, political unrest caused her family to flee Africa to England where they returned to Nick's hometown of Penzance where she and her brother James were raised.
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In Jefferson in Paris, which was released in 1995, Newton played Sally Hemings, the young slave owned by Thomas Jefferson. Directed by James Ivory and starring Nick Nolte as Jefferson, the controversial film portrayed Hemings as an alluring vixen who enjoys a warm relationship with her brooding master. In the 1996 film The Journey of August King, Newton played a runaway slave who is reluctantly assisted on her northward trek by a young white farmer, played by Jason Patric. The film was ... directed by John Duigan. Although she has negative feelings about their romantic association, Newton has praise for Duigan's directorial talent. "John is a very good director, and he allowed me to see that film acting is subtle--sometimes you must do less than you would do in life," she told Kilday.
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Thandie (pronounced Tan-dee) Newton was born November 6, 1972, in Zambia, Africa. Her exotic and original beauty can be attributed to her mixed heritage: her father Nick Newton, a British artist and former lab technician, married Nyasha, a Zimbabwean nurse.
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The same year, Newton acted as part of an ensemble cast in Loaded, a fairly obscure film directed by Anna Campion, sister of The Piano's Jane Campion. She was then reunited with Flirting director Duigan in 1995 for The Journey of August King, a little-seen feature in which she starred with Jason Patric. Greater recognition came in the form of the same year's Jefferson in Paris, a critically maligned but impressively cast film, in which Newton played Sally Hemings, slave and lover of Nick Nolte's Thomas Jefferson. Acting alongside individuals such as Nolte, James Earl Jones, and Gwyneth Paltrow certainly did little to hurt Newton's reputation and the next year she had yet another starring role, this time opposite Jon Bon Jovi in her third film with director Duigan, The Leading Man.
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