Vivien Merchant

However, Merchant never got over the dissolution of her marriage, and her premature death was brought about by alcoholism. The couple has a daughter, Ripley, born in 2000. Merchant went public about her distress, and famously told the press that Pinter had not taken many clothes with him; but, she quipped, if he didn't have any shoes to wear, he could always borrow Fraser's: "she has very big feet, you know". Newton married film writer Oliver Parker in 1998. Their marriage began disintegrating in the mid-1960s and Pinter left Merchant suddenly in 1977 to live with historian Lady Antonia Fraser. John Carter, on the American television series ER, and also appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick. Despite her great talent and many film appearances - including Alfie (1966) and Frenzy (1972), she is probably best known as the first wife of the playwright, Harold Pinter, whom she married in 1956. She appeared in many of his works, notably The Homecoming (1973). Newton recently plays Kem, the love interest of Dr.

Vivien Merchant (1929-1983) was a British actress, born Ada Thompson. She was also in the movie Mission: Impossible II as Nya Hall, the love interest of Tom Cruise's character Ethan Hunt and was signed to appear in the film version of Charlie's Angels but when the Mission: Impossible film went over schedule she lost the other part. Newton made her film début in Flirting (1991) and gained international recognition opposite Nick Nolte in the film Jefferson in Paris that led to her being cast in 1998's Beloved, (alongside Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey), where she played the title character. Her mother is a princess of the Shona tribe. She was educated at Downing College, Cambridge.

She was raised in Zambia and Cornwall, England. Thandiwe Newton was born of a Zimbabwean mother and an English father. Thandie Newton (born November 6, 1972) is a British actress.