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Thandie Newton

1972 - Today

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Melanie Thandiwe Newton ( TAN-dee-way; born 6 November 1972), formerly credited as Thandie Newton ( TAN-dee), is a British actress. She has received various awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award, and a BAFTA Award, as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards. 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 is known for starring roles such as the title character in Beloved (1998), Nyah Nordoff-Hall in Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), Tiffany in Shade (2003), Dame Vaako in The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Christine in Crash (2004), Linda in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Libby in Run Fatboy Run (2007), Stella in RocknRolla (2008), Condoleezza Rice in W. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thandie Newton has received more than 11,423,741 page views. Her biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Thandie Newton is the 3,263rd most popular actor (down from 3,144th in 2019), the 2,730th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,694th in 2019) and the 394th most popular British Actor.

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  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Thandie Newton ranks 3,263 out of 13,578. Before her are Uhm Jung-hwa, Goran Višnjić, Joan Blondell, John Terry, Jacques Dufilho, and Albert Bassermann. After her are Louis Wolheim, Gwendoline Christie, Alexandra Stewart, Giovanni Ribisi, Gregory Hines, and Doug Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Thandie Newton ranks 95. Before her are Esther Duflo, Alf-Inge Håland, Jonny Lee Miller, Virgilijus Alekna, Amrullah Saleh, and Goran Višnjić. After her are Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice, Julie Benz, Aafia Siddiqui, Bae Yong-joon, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Mia Hamm.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thandie Newton ranks 2,730 out of 8,785. Before her are Francis Beaumont (1584), Ida of Bernicia (450), Hayley Mills (1946), Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805), Gary Hocking (1937), and Chris Lowe (1959). After her are Harry Maguire (1993), Gwendoline Christie (1978), Alexander Mackenzie (1822), Anne of York (1475), James B. Francis (1815), and Ioan Gruffudd (1973).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Thandie Newton ranks 394. Before her are Simon Callow (1949), Harriet Walter (1950), Jeremy Bulloch (1945), Simon MacCorkindale (1952), Chris Vance (1971), and Hayley Mills (1946). After her are Gwendoline Christie (1978), Ioan Gruffudd (1973), Lily Collins (1989), Graham McTavish (1961), Caroline Munro (1949), and Phyllida Law (1932).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Pursuit of Happyness
Linda
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Dec 14th 20067.898 / 10
2012
Laura Wilson
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
Oct 10th 20095.845 / 10
Mission: Impossible II
Nyah Hall
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.
May 24th 20006.128 / 10