Newton, Thandie Filmography

• Half of a Yellow Sun
  2013, role: actress , character name: Olanna
• Good Deeds
  2012, role: actress , character name: Lindsey Wakefield
• Retreat
  2011, role: actress , character name: Kate
• The Prophet
  2011, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• For Colored Girls
  2010, role: actress , character name: Tangie
• Roland Emmerich: Master of the Modern Epic
  2010, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Huge
  2010, role: actress , character name: Kris
• Vanishing on 7th Street
  2010, role: actress , character name: Rosemary
• For Colored Girls
  2010, role: actress , character name: Orange
• 2012
  2009, role: actress , character name: Laura Wilson
• Blokes, Birds and Backenders
  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Orange British Academy Film Awards
  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself - Presenter
• The Orange British Academy Film Awards
  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself - Presenter
• How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
• RocknRolla
  2008, role: actress , character name: Stella
• W.
  2008, role: actress , character name: Condoleezza Rice
• Run Fatboy Run
  2007, role: actress , character name: Libby
• 2007 Britannia Awards
  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Father and Son: On Screen and Off
  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Live Earth
  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Moving Image Salutes Will Smith
  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Norbit
  2007, role: actress , character name: Kate Thomas
• The 100 Best Black Movies (Ever)
  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Orange British Academy Film Awards
  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Orange British Academy Film Awards
  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Screen Nation Television and Film Awards 2006
  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself - award winner
• The Pursuit of Happyness
  2006, role: actress , character name: Linda
• The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa
  2006, role: actress , character name: The Mona Lisa
• Premio Donostia a Matt Dillon
  2006, role: actress , character name: Christine Thayer
• 2006 BET Awards Nominations Live
  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• 'Crash' Featurette
  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Chronicles of Riddick
  2004, role: actress , character name: Dame Vaako
• Crash
  2004, role: actress , character name: Christine Thayer
• Sci-Fi Channel: The Lowdown - The Chronicles of Riddick
  2004, role: actress , character name: Dame Vaako
• The Truth About 'The Truth About Charlie'
  2003, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Orange British Academy Film Awards
  2003, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Shade
  2003, role: actress , character name: Tiffany
• The Truth About Charlie
  2002, role: actress , character name: Regina Lambert
• The Orange British Academy Film Awards
  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Orange British Academy Film Awards
  2001, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Brit Awards 2001
  2001, role: actress , character name: Herself
• It Was an Accident
  2000, role: actress , character name: Noreen Hurlock
• Mission: Impossible II
  2000, role: actress , character name: Nyah Nordoff-Hall
• 2000 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
  2000, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Behind the Mission: The Making of 'M:I-2'
  2000, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Besieged
  1998, role: actress , character name: Shandurai
• Beloved
  1998, role: actress , character name: Beloved
• Gridlock'd
  1997, role: actress , character name: Barbara 'Cookie' Cook
• Brit Awards 1996
  1996, role: actress , character name: Herself - Audience Member

Famous quotes by Thandie Newton:

"The film is driven by coincidence and preconception, ... Each character, whether they be rich, poor, black, white, Mexican or Iraqi, suffers these preconceptions about the other as a manifestation of personal frustration. You see the characters' motivation and see that behind the belligerent cop is a man in pain, behind the frustrated housewife is a woman who feels let down. Racism is just one part of the much bigger puzzle that the film offers."

"Interview With the Vampire."

"The Truth About Charlie."

"You're not actually thinking about kissing - you're thinking, 'Is my face in the right place, is my hair there, oh my God, you can see my nipple.'"

"I just feel like it's got to be about the process and about the doing of it, rather than be about how it's going to be perceived. It's got to be about what it feels like at the time of actually making that project, because just a few times I've worked on projects because I think that it will seem great, or it will be a really good career move or about perception and I haven't had a good time."

"I want more babies."

"I think I'll probably write something, a family drama. I'm good at frame works and plots, but my dialogue is atrocious. It gets very over-wrought. My husband's a writer and his dialogue is brilliant, so, I'm very often his script-editor, so I think we'll probably write something together."

"Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up."

"If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in."

"I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life."

"I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good."

"I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take."

"Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it."

"I'd love to do yoga every day. I don't usually have time, but a few sun salutations go a long way."

"I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin."

"I never understood the point of juicing - I always thought I could get enough nutrients from eating fruit and vegetables - but now I'm a convert."

"When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego."

"If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life."