Thandie Newton

Melanie Thandiwe "Thandie" Newton (/ˈtændi/; born 6 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 2 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. She also currently portrays DCI Roz Huntley in Series 4 of the BBC One police procedural series Line of Duty. 2Early life Newton was born in Westminster, London, England, the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean, and Nick Newton, an English laboratory technician and artist. Her birthplace has been incorrectly reported to be Zambia in some biographies, but she has confirmed in interviews that she was born in London. 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. Regarding her childhood, Newton remarked at a TED conference, "From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nun