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Melanie Thandiwe "Thandie" Newton (born 6th of November 1972) is an English actress.
'She has appeared in several British and American films,
and is known for roles such as Linda in The Pursuit of Happyness,
Nyah Nordoff-Hall in Mission: Impossible II and Christine in Crash,
for which she received a number of awards,
including a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
As of 2016, she plays the sentient android,
the madam Maeve Millay
in the HBO science fiction-Western television series Westworld,
which earned her a Critics' Choice Award and
Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.'
With her parents (below)
'Thandie Newton is the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean,
and Nick Newton, an English laboratory technician and artist.
Thandie was brought up in London and Penzance, Cornwall,
and studied dance at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.
She attended Downing College of Cambridge University,
where she studied social anthropology.
The name "Thandiwe" means "beloved" in Ndebele, Zulu, Xhosa or siSwati,
and "Thandie" is pronounced /ˈtændi/ in English.
According to Newton, her mother is a Shona princess.'
She appeared on the Graham Norton comedy show and can be seen at 1:54
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