Thandiwe Newton Pronunciation: How Is Thandiwe Pronounced? Is It Thandie Newton Or Thandiwe Newton?

Thandiwe is pronounced “tan-DEE-way” and it means “beloved”.

In an interview with British Vogue, she revealed that her name was misspelled in the credits of her first film in 1991, Flirting which co-starred Nicole Kidman and Noah Taylor.

Thandie was the result of the misspelling of her name in the credits of her first film.

Newton, was widely known as Thandie Newton for 30 years.

In April 2021, Newton announced she was finally correcting it and would henceforth be known and credited as Thandiwe Newton, her real name, beginning with Reminiscence (2021).

In 2016, Newton began portraying Maeve Millay in HBO science fiction drama series Westworld, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, among other accolades.

In 2017, she served as a narrator for the documentary entitled Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon, an exposé on the sexual assault charges laid against Cosby, which aired on BBC One.

In the same year, Newton played DCI Roseanne “Roz” Huntley in the fourth season of BBC One’s Line of Duty, a role for which she received a BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Actress.