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theatre and films
David
Schwimmer (who
directed
Run Fatboy
Run) called
the actress
“the queen
of practical jokes”.
Condoleezza Rice, in W., Oliver Stone’s film biography of President George W. Bush. The film was
released 17 October 2008.
In July 2011, Newton delivered a TED Talk on
“Embracing otherness, embracing myself ”. In it,
she discussed finding her “otherness” as a child
growing up in two distinct cultures, and as an
actress playing with many different selves. In 2012,
she starred alongside Tyler Perry in the romantic
drama film Good Deeds. In 2013, Thandie starred
in Rogue, the first original drama series for DirecTV’s Audience Network.[22]
She married English writer/director/producer Ol
Parker in 1998. The couple have two daughters:
Ripley, born in 2000, and Nico, born in 2004. Her
daughters were named after the character Ellen
Ripley in the Alien films and the singer Nico. On
September 8, 2013, Newton’s rep confirmed their
third child was on the way.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”.
David Schwimmer (who directed Run Fatboy Run)
called the actress “the queen of practical jokes”.
Newton has expressed an affinity with Buddhism.