Birth Name: Thandiwe Newton Birth Date November 6, 1972 Birth Place Zambia Height: 5' 2'' Eyes Brown Hair Dark Brown/Black Nationality American Profession Actress Claim to fame as Nyah Nordoff-Hall in Mission Impossible II (2000)   Thandie Newton (born November 6, 1972, pronounced "Tandy") is a BAFTA award-winning British actress.

She was born in Zambia, to an English father and a Zimbabwean mother. She was raised in Zambia and Cornwall, England, and educated at Downing College, University of Cambridge.

Newton made her film début in Flirting (1991).

She had a small role as the Creole slave Yvette in Interview with the Vampire alongside Tom Cruise.

She gained international recognition opposite Nick Nolte in the Merchant Ivory Film Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemmings, which led to her being cast in Jonathan Demme's Beloved (1998) alongside Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey, in which she played the title character.

She played the female lead, Nyah Hall, in the film Mission: Impossible II with Tom Cruise. When this film went over schedule, she had to pull out of the film Charlie's Angels and Newton's character ultimately went to Lucy Liu.

Newton recently played Kem, the love interest of Dr. John Carter, on the American television series ER.

She also appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick and Crash. Her performance in Crash, as an upper middle-class black woman forced to assess her racial attitudes after being molested by a white racist police officer (played by Matt Dillon), was honoured with a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006. Crash also won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2005.

Newton married writer and director Ol Parker (not Oliver Parker) in 1998. The couple have two daughters, Ripley, born in 2000, and Nico, born in 2004.