Thandie Newton

The couple has a daughter, Ripley, born in 2000.
. Newton married film writer Oliver Parker in 1998. She is also a leading light in Social, Welsh and Sexy (SWS), the London-based organisation for Welsh socialites. John Carter, on the American television series ER, and also appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick. In June 2000, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. Newton recently plays Kem, the love interest of Dr. She married and divorced Peter O'Toole after having two daughters by him and in 2001 she launched an autobiography revealing details of her tempestuous marriage to him.

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. She was born Jane Elizabeth Ailwen Phillips in Bettws, Carmarthenshire, Wales. 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. Siân Phillips (born May 14, 1934) CBE, is a British actress. 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.