Thandiwe Newton
Newton in 2011, Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Melanie Thandiwe Newton
Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England
Date of Birth: 6 November, 1972
Ethnicity:
*father – English-Cornish
*mother – Shona Zimbabwean
Thandiwe Newton, also credited as Thandie Newton, is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the films Mission: Impossible 2, Crash, and The Pursuit of Happyness, among many others.
Thandiwe was born and raised in Westminster, London, England. Her father, Nick Newton, is British, and is caucasian. Her mother, Nyasha, is Zimbabwean. Thandiwe has said that her mother is a Shona princess. The name Thandiwe means “beloved” in Ndebele, Zulu, Xhosa, or Swati, and Thandie is pronounced /ˈtændi/ in English.
Thandiwe is married to writer and director Ol Parker, with whom she has three children, including actress Nico Parker.
Newton with husband Ol and daughter Nico in 2019, pic by Prphotos
Thandiwe’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Jombe.
Ethnic,
This piece states that her father is from an “old Cornish family,” which seems likely given where he was from and Thandie was raised. So he’s British, but of Cornish ancestry. I know many Cornish people identfy primarily as English, but the Newtons seem to identify as Cornish.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4416920/How-Thandie-beat-bigots.html
Ethnic,
Can we expand her maternal ancestry to say “Shona Zimbabwean” since Zimbabwean is a nationality? Thanks!
good actress
Thandie? Did her parents have a lisp?
hot girl