Thandiwe Newton

[marlasinger]

How old are those pics? Her face looks so different now.

 

[scriptgirl]

Those pics are mid-90s. I'd say she was 20 pounds heavier
Thandie at Sundance, promoting Gridlock'd with Tim Roth and Vondie Curtis Hall
Credit Profimedia

 

[scriptgirl]

From Everett Collection
A poster from Jefferson in Paris

 

[skim_hazelnut_latte]

Some pics that i found on popsugar.com:

 

[skim_hazelnut_latte]

same source as above

 

[scriptgirl]

A lot of those pics have already been posted. You should always check before you post stuff. We're not allowed to post repeats.

 

[scriptgirl]

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[1karina1]

^ She looks beautiful in those. Thanks scriptgirl!

 

[scriptgirl]

You are welcome! I have missed you Karina!
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Thandie at the opening of a hotel in London

 

[pinkvogue]

Her outfit looks cute from what i can see.

 

[scriptgirl]

I know! I wish I had more pics, but I don't!
Pics of Thandie from the film "Shade"
Credit Visual Press

 

[scriptgirl]

From Ebay
One of my all time fave Thandie pics

 

[pinkvogue]

lovely pic

 

[scriptgirl]

Thandie at the Solaris premiere in 2003 Her skirt is awful
Retna

 

[cosmocat]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk
An article on Thandie and her style from Observer's Women magazine
How I get dressed: Thandie Newton[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]
The actress, 34, on learning to love her body, Bafta frocks and short skirts
[/FONT][FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Interview by Daisy Garnett
[/FONT][FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Sunday June 10, 2007
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Observer
[/FONT][FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]I know what I'm going to wear every day before I open my wardrobe. It takes me about a second to think it all out. A normal day for me is spending time with my kids (Ripley, six, and Nico, two), which means sitting down on the floor. A lot. So it's jeans. Tight jeans or boy-cut jeans with a top - maybe a bit of a chemise, maybe by Marni. And I love a cardigan, though my husband Ol groans whenever I wear one. He thinks they are unsexy, but I can't do without them. You can make your neckline plunge with a cardie, or you can prim it up. Either way it's always jeans, even though part of me hates jeans. Everyone wears jeans and I have a thing about that. It's because it took me a long time to get my identity together - it wasn't easy growing up a mixed-race kid in Cornwall- and when I think back, I can chart that process by the way I dressed myself. I have come to love looking a little different.

I look at my daughters - because dressing children is complicated in itself - it shows how you want to see them and how you want them to be seen. Ripley doesn't give a toss what she wears - she'll only say if something is itchy or uncomfortable. So I get to dress her like I'm her stylist. I love it. So because of that I've been thinking more about dressing. Because there is this idea that women get dressed for other women, but I think we actually get dressed to see ourselves.
I pride myself on having good taste now, but it was terrible growing up. I dressed like a 40-year-old woman when I was a teenager. I wore long skirts, tights, big sweaters and lots of make-up. My next phase was shapeless clothes from Ghost. I was desperately insecure about my body. Why? Women are. I was so unhappy during my adolescence that I wanted to hide myself all the time. That hit its pitch at university. I was so covered up then I looked like Obi-Wan Kenobi.
I began changing when I met my husband and fell in love. I was 23 and we met on the set of a BBC film he wrote called In Your Dreams. Ol is such a pure, open, absorbing, unthreatening person, and he allowed me to receive and love myself back through him: he would never need me to be a trophy girlfriend. It wasn't as simple as him saying, 'Oh babe, you look good in a short skirt'. It's been a long burn. In fact it's only in the last year that I've been comfortable wearing a short skirt.
Now I love dressing up. I'd been hearing about Giles Deacon through friends for ages, and so at the end of last year I asked him if I could borrow something to wear for Vogue's 90th birthday party. This strapless black dress arrived 20 minutes before I was due to leave for the party, but I put it on and I was like, oh my God. I returned it the next day, and rang him and said, 'Baftas? Will you dress me?' He dressed Helen Mirren and me. Could you get two more different-looking women?
Last year I wore this stunning, big Eliza Doolittle sort of gown by Lacroix. I was quite firm about not wanting to wear a gown again, and I explained to Giles that I wanted something rocking, but quite back-of-the stage-looking. But as soon as I saw a sketch of a dress from his new collection, I knew it was right, even though it contradicted everything I had said, but dressing is about trusting your gut.
I had the same feeling meeting Giles as I did when I met the Queen. Twittery. It doesn't matter how supercool you are, when you are invited to Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen - I went to a cocktail party given for British achievers - you cannot help getting excited. Thankfully I was in LA when I heard about it, so I was with my stylist who dresses me for things like press junkets, and she said, you have to wear Chanel. I got the outfit so right, you wouldn't believe it. It was a beautiful black Chanel dress with a sensible neckline and layers, like petals, of chiffon. It was perfect. Heaven. I was basking. The Queen was nice. We didn't talk for long, but afterwards, I thought, you're amazing. Imagine giving your life over to these things. She looked immaculate in a peachy pink suit with sequins. Not sequins like Elton; hers were more a speckled shimmer. Talk about getting dressed.
I imagine Queen Elizabeth must have people helping her dress every day, like you do on a movie. I hate that. The dressers are always lovely but I don't let them come near me. For me, costume is huge. When I go for the costume fitting, it's the first time I see myself in the mirror as the character I am playing. Because however much you think and read and do research, you don't do it in front of a mirror. For The Pursuit of Happyness, for example, I was given five dry cleaning outfits to try on and I knew exactly which one my character Linda - who worked in a dry cleaners - would wear. I put it on and I thought, OK, I've got it. In the script Linda was described as the b*tch that leaves, but I saw her as a woman basically committing suicide. Every time I walked on the set, that's who I was. It was hard. There wasn't a lot of Thandie around. I had a screening for the film not long ago - just for friends. I dressed for joy for that screening and I wore a Marni dress, black tights, a cardie and Marni high heels. Dressing up for dinner with friends or a low-key party is much more fun than doing it for the red carpet. No one is judging you when you dress up for friends and you just feel delicious.[/FONT]

 

[scriptgirl]

Great article
Credit UK Press
Thandie and Ol shopping in 2002

 

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[thewallgroup]
I'm not sure where these were published, love the raw emotion in almost every shot maybe not the white dress shot from behind. The two page image reminds me of a scene from "Crush" my favorite movie!

 

[scriptgirl]

Her Wikipedia page
Early life
Newton was born in Zambia, to a white English lab technician and artist, Nick Newton, and a Zimbabwean health-care worker, Nyasha[2][3]. The name "Thandiwe" means "beloved" in Ndebele and the name "Thandie" is pronounced TAN-dee. Newton played a character named "Beloved" in the film adaptation of the Toni Morrison novel Beloved in 1998. According to Newton, her mother is a Zimbabwean Shona Princess.[4] She was raised in Zambia and Penzance, Cornwall, England, and educated at Downing College, University of Cambridge.

[edit] Career

Newton made her film debut in Flirting (1991). This Australian movie was also a launch pad for a young Nicole Kidman, with whom she has remained friends. She gained international recognition opposite Nick Nolte in the Merchant-Ivory production of Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemmings, which led to her being cast in Jonathan Demme's Beloved (1998), in which she played the title character and costarred with Danny Glover, Kimberly Elise, and Oprah Winfrey. She played the female lead Nyah Hall in the film Mission: Impossible II. When this film went over schedule, she had to pull out of the film Charlie's Angels, and her 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. She appeared in Crash as a wealthy black woman who, along with her husband, finds herself the target of a racist policeman (played by Matt Dillon). The policeman molests her before ultimately saving her life. Newton was honoured with a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006. Crash also won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2005.
It has been rumoured that Newton has been shortlisted to play the role of DCI Gene Hunt's new sidekick, DI Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes - the sequel series to Life On Mars. According to the Daily Mail, producers have shortlisted Liz May Brice, of Bad Girls, New Street Law's Lisa Faulkner and Thandie Newton. The paper added that Newton is tipped to win the role.

[edit] Personal life

Newton married English writer and director Ol Parker in 1997. The couple has two daughters: Ripley, born in 2000, and Nico, born in 2004. Her daughters were named after the character Ripley in the Alien films and the cult singer of The Velvet Underground fame[citation needed]
She is friends with Nicole Kidman, who recommended her to her then-husband Tom Cruise as the female lead in Mission: Impossible II. She is also extremely close with the powerful British media family the Adams-Taylors; whose eldest daughter, Jessica, is a childhood friend, and godmother to her daughter Ripley.
In 2006, she contributed a foreword to We Wish: Hopes and Dreams of Cornwall's Children, a book of children's writing published in aid of the NSPCC. In it, she writes vividly about her childhood memories of growing up in Cornwall and the way in which the county's vibrant cultural heritage made it easy for her to "enrich every situation with layers of magic and meaning".[citation needed]
Thandie Newton, the Bafta award-winning star of the film Crash, has swapped her BMW X5 for a Toyota Prius after protesters bombarded the car with eggs at the gates of her son’s school. She then wrote to her celebrity friends, asking them to join her in switching to more environmentally sound cars.[citation needed]

 

[scriptgirl]

credit hippyshopper
Visa Swap: a new concept in clothes swapping

We all know that clothes-swapping parties are a new sensation sweeping the nation, but how do they actually work? Well, usually they take the form of a normal party but with your friends old clothes thrown into the mix. All a lot of fun, but a bit hit and miss, depending on your friends' tastes.
Now, clothes-swapping has gone official.:Visa Swap is the name for a new clothing event to encourage ethical fashion through swapping.

To take part, you drop off your old designer and high quality clothes at designated drop-off points, and you'll be given a Visa Swap chip card that you charge with redeemable points in exchange for your discarded items. And it's not just mere mortals taking part; Visa Swap has received clothes and accessories from Kylie, Helena Bonham-Carter, Naomi Campbell, Sadie Frost, Donna Air, Thandie Newton, Kelly Osbourne and designers such as Philip Treacy, Alice Temperley, Issa, Gina shoes, Bella Freud and Giles Deacon. These will be hidden amongst the regular clothes with special labels so you’ll have to dig to find them.
The next event will take place on 16th/17th June, and you can leave your items for collection now. Visit the site to find out how.

 

[scriptgirl]

Credit Camera Press
Thandie photoshoot for Beloved