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Thandiwe Newton better known as Thandie Newton (born November 6, 1972) is a BAFTA Award-winning English actress. Biography Newton was born in Zambia, to a white English father and a black Zimbabwean mother. According to Newton, her mother is a Zimbabwean Shona Princess.. She was raised in Zambia and Penzance, Cornwall, England, and educated at Downing College, University of Cambridge. Newton made her film debut in Flirting (1991). She had a small role as the Creole slave Yvette in Interview with the Vampire with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt whom she dated during filming.
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For actress Thandie Newton, her role in Jefferson in Paris was a launching pad. It led to her playing the title character in Beloved and the female lead in Mission: Impossible 2. Raised in Zambia and England, Newton started her showbiz career as a dancer. After an injury, she turned to acting, earning an anthropology degree from Cambridge University along the way. She's had a wide variety of roles, including on NBC's hit ER and in the critically acclaimed film, Crash. She was recently cast in Pursuit of Happyness.
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Relaxed, quietly elegant and tired after her recent round of interviews, Thandie Newton has reason to be enthused, both professionally and personally. She has a four-month old baby, her second child, and she is winning early Oscar buzz for her riveting performance in Crash. "It's nice to be talking to you about a film I actually love," she says, laughingly. Crash, an ensemble drama delving into the cultural divide of Los Angeles, casts Newton as Christine, the beautiful light-coloured wife of TV producer Thayer (Terrence Howard). Christine is subjected to a humiliating body search by a bigoted cop (Matt Dillon), who is channelling all his anger for the lack of medical treatment his ill father is getting, into his job. Though a film tat explores the dark underbelly of Los Angeles, Newton says that she was attracted to this film, far beyond her American character.
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Relaxed, quietly elegant and tired after her recent round of interviews, Thandie Newton has reason to be enthused, both professionally and personally. She has a four-month old baby, her second child, and she is winning early Oscar buzz for her riveting performance in Crash. "It's nice to be talking to you about a film I actually love", she says, laughingly.
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Mission: Impossible 2 star Thandie Newton originally set her sights on becoming a dancer. The daughter of a Zimbabwean mother (a princess of the Shona tribe) and an English father, she spent her early years in Zambia until political unrest forced the family to move to England. Enrolled at London's Art Educational School at age 11, she studied modern dance. After being sidelined for a time with a back injury, she was encouraged to audition for a role in Australian director John Duigan's Flirting. The movie was a huge success in Australia and a launching pad for another notable, actress Nicole Kidman, but Newton's career languished, so she turned her attention to earning a degree in anthropology from Cambridge University, while picking up acting gigs, notably Interview with a Vampire (1994) and Jefferson in Paris (1995), between semesters. Roles in Bertolucci's so-so Besieged and Beloved were next, but her career soared when she landed a role opposite Tom Cruise in his second Mission: Impossible outing.
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From Bertolucci to John Woo may seem a stretch, but for beautiful Thandie Newton, it's all part of a growth process. She began her career in Australia with John Duigan's Flirting, now she's back working on a somewhat bigger film, Mission Impossible 2. About to hit Australian cinema screens in Bertolucci's Besieged, the actress talked exclusively to Paul Fischer from the set of Mission Impossible 2.
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