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What Race Is Thandiwe Newton? Why Did Thandie Newton Change Her Name To Thandiwe?
Thandiwe Newton is British. She was born in London.
She is the daughter of Zimbabwean mother Nyasha, a health-care worker from the Shona tribe, and British father Nick Newton, who worked as a lab technician.
Newton, who is biracial, is often criticized for benefiting from her lighter skin. In 2012 she was cast as an Igbo woman in Half a Yellow Sun, which caused a stir online.
Newton, was widely known as Thandie Newton for 30 years.
In April 2021, Newton announced she was finally correcting it and would henceforth be known and credited as Thandiwe Newton, her real name, beginning with Reminiscence (2021).
In 2016, Newton began portraying Maeve Millay in HBO science fiction drama series Westworld, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, among other accolades.
In 2017, she served as a narrator for the documentary entitled Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon, an exposé on the sexual assault charges laid against Cosby, which aired on BBC One.
In the same year, Newton played DCI Roseanne “Roz” Huntley in the fourth season of BBC One’s Line of Duty, a role for which she received a BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Actress.
