Thandiwe Newton

Thandie Newton in 2010

Melanie Thandiwe Newton Parker, OBE (born 6 November 1972), formerly credited as Thandie Newton, is an English actress. She has received various awards including a Primetime Emmy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for two Golden Globe Awards.

Quotes

• There's a very strong connection between a lot of the evils of the modern world—factory farming, abuse against women—and the environment. We're destroying the female. If you think about the earth as a female organism which it is, in its totality, you know how we're disrespecting and abusing it. … [I have] very strong feelings about factory farming … I’m a vegetarian myself … I don’t want any kind of suffering of any living form but it’s more to do with the awareness that so much of the meat on the planet is being produced by factory farms. Animals are being pumped full of growth hormones which are then getting fed to our kids. And it’s affecting the water, environment. … We are being duped and controlled by huge multinationals that are concerned about the short term, not the long term and don’t care about the individual.
  • “The ‘superhero’ in feisty actress Thandie Newton,” interview with Inquirer.net (13 April 2013).

• While expressing my milk realised that the equivalent for cows is my milk going to the mouths of people who murder and eat my family #VEGAN
  • Tweet on Twitter (12 Jun 2014). Also quoted in “PETA’s Sexiest Vegan Celebrities of 2014: Thandie Newton and David Haye Nab Top Honours!,” in Peta.org.uk (23 December 2014).