Age: 53
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Melanie Thandiwe Newton OBE (born 6 November 1972), formerly credited as Thandie Newton, is a British actress. Newton is known for starring roles such as the title character in Beloved (1998), Nyah Nordoff-Hall in Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), Tiffany in Shade (2003), Dame Vaako in The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Christine in Crash (2004), Linda in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Libby in Run Fatboy Run (2007), Stella in RockNRolla (2008), Condoleezza Rice in W. (2008), Laura Wilson in 2012 (2009), Tangie Adrose in For Colored Girls (2010), Maeve Millay in Westworld (2016–2022), Roz Huntley in Line of Duty (2017), and Val in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). Newton has received various awards, including an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and two Critics' Choice Awards, in addition to nominations for two Golden Globe Awards, a Saturn Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to film and charity. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thandiwe Newton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Hatshepsut—the daughter of a general who usurps Egypt’s throne—is expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father’s family. Her failure to produce a male heir, however, paves the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king. At just over twenty, Hatshepsut out-maneuvers the mother of Thutmose III, the infant king, for a seat on the throne, and ascends to the rank of Pharaoh. Shrewdly operating the levers of power to emerge as Egypt’s second female pharaoh, Hatshepsut becomes a master strategist, cloaking her political power plays in the veil of piety and sexual reinvention. She successfully negotiates a path from the royal nursery to the very pinnacle of authority, and her reign sees one of Ancient Egypt’s most prolific glorious periods.
