FrameThrower · Actors · Thandiwe Newton
Thandiwe Newton
11 films · 1,011 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1998–2025
Born 6 November 1972 · London, England, UK
Melanie Thandiwe Newton OBE, formerly credited as Thandie Newton, is a British actress.
Newton is known for starring roles such as the title character in Beloved (1998), Nyah Nordoff-Hall in Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), Tiffany in Shade (2003), Dame Vaako in The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Christine in Crash (2004), Linda in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Libby in Run Fatboy Run (2007), Stella in RockNRolla (2008), Condoleezza Rice in W.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 11 films · 1,011 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1998–2025
- British Academy Film Awards2006
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role2006
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series2018
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire2018
- OkayAfrica 100 Women2019
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 20102019
- Black Reel Awards for Television2017
- Empire Awards2006
- Black Reel Awards2006
- London Film Critics' Circle2006
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,011 frames from the 11 films we hold. This is the look of the work Thandiwe takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 11 films we hold, 58% of their frames are night, 56% low key — the look of the work Thandiwe takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Pursuit of Happyness
2006 · Linda
The Chronicles of Riddick
2004 · Dame Vaako
The Truth About Charlie
2002 · Regina Lambert
Mission: Impossible II
2000 · Nyah Hall
Anaconda
2025 · Claire Simons
Solo: A Star Wars Story
2018 · Val
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
2018 · Journalist
2012
2009 · Laura Wilson
Shade
2003 · Tiffany
Beloved
1998 · Beloved
Interview With The Vampire
· Yvette
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,011 frames from Thandiwe Newton's 11 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.