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Thandiwe Newton
Sign in to saveAlso known as Melanie Thandiwe "Thandie" Newton, Thandie Newton, Melanie Thandiwe Newton Parker
English actress (born 1972)
OverviewAI-generated
Thandiwe Newton is a figure whose professional career began in 1991. She has three children and maintains a social media presence with 178,909 followers. Her work is documented in five entries within the Crossref database.
The subject is the focus of a Commons category and is referenced by 533 other encyclopedia articles. On the Last.fm platform, her name is associated with six listeners and a total playcount of six.
Synthesized by Vinony from 10 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 6
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,894x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,699x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,996x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,256x
- Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 6,816x
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Quotes
- “While expressing my milk realised that the equivalent for cows is my milk going to the mouths of people who murder and eat my family #VEGAN”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Newton
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Spouse
- Ol Parker
- Child
- Nico Parker
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Image
- Thandiwe Newton Peabody Awards, June 2021.png
- Number of children
- 3
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- Thandiwe Newton
- date of birth
- 1972-11-06
- social media followers
- 178909
- birth name
- Melanie Thandiwe Newton
- unmarried partner
- John Duigan
- start of work period
- 1991-00-00
- name in native language
- Thandiwe Newton
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Melanie Thandiwe Newton OBE (/ˈtændiːweɪ/ TAN-dee-way; born 6 November 1972), formerly credited as Thandie Newton (/ˈtændi/ TAN-dee), is an English actress. She has received various awards, including a Primetime Emmy and a BAFTA, as well as nominations for two Golden Globes. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to film and charity.
Newton made her film debut in Flirting (1991) and had a supporting role in Interview with the Vampire (1994), before achieving wider recognition with her portrayal of the title character in Beloved (1998). Subsequent credits include Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Norbit, Run Fatboy Run (both 2007), RocknRolla, W. (both 2008), 2012 (2009), For Colored Girls (2010), and Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). For her performance in Crash (2004), she won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thandiwe Newton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.