Thandie Newton in the Chronicles OF... | 2004

Clip Name: In the Necromonger Fortress

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Thandie Newton in the Chronicles of Riddick | 2004

Starring: Vin Diesel, Colm Feore and Thandie Newton
Directed by: David Twohy
About this actor

Thandiwe Nashita "Thandie" Newton (born 6 November 1972) is an English actress. She has appeared in a number of British and American films, including Norbit, The Pursuit of Happyness; Run, Fat Boy, Run; Mission: Impossible II; Crash; RocknRolla; 2012; The Chronicles of Riddick and W. Newton was born in London,though she is regarded as a great Cornish actress and is the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean health-care worker who was well respected amongst the Cornish community where she practised and Nick Newton, a Cornish laboratory technician and artist. Her birthplace has been incorrectly reported to be Zambia in some biographies, but she has confirmed in interviews that she was born in London, during a two-week trip by her parents. The name "Thandiwe" means "beloved" in Ndebele, Zulu, Xhosa or Swazi, and "Thandie" is pronounced /ˈtændi/ TAN-dee in English. According to Newton, her mother is a Zimbabwean Shona princess. Raised in London and Penzance, Kernow/Cornwall, she went on to...