Thandiwe Newton

 Melanie Thandiwe Newton OBE (/’taendi?weI/TAN-dee–way;[1]) was born 6 November 1972. She is an English actress. Newton has been nominated to win two Golden Globe Awards and has won a Primetime Emmy Award as well as a British Academy Film Award. In 2019, she was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her services to charity and film. Newton is known for starring roles such as the lead character from Beloved (1998), Nyah Nordoff-Hall in Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), Tiffany in Shade (2003) as well as the character Dame Vaako from The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Christine in Crash (2004), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Linda in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Libby in Run Fatboy Run (2007), Stella in RockNRolla (2008), Condoleezza Rice in W. (2008), Laura Wilson in 2012 (2009), Tangie Adrose in For Colored Girls (2010) and Val in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). Since 2016, Newton has been playing a sentient android as the madam Maeve Millay in the HBO science fiction western Westworld in which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and two Critics Choice Awards, as well as nominations for the Golden Globe Award, Saturn Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. Newton was nominated for the British Academy Television Award as Best Actress for her role as DCI Roz Huntley on the BBC drama series Line of Duty in 2017.