Westworld.” But Newton is setting the record straight — her name is Thandiwe, not Thandie.The actress revealed the correct spelling of her name in a recent interview with “British Vogue.” Her parents named her Thandiwe, which means “beloved” in Shona, the language of her mother’s people. (A prescient name it turns out, as Newton went on to star as eponymous Beloved in the 1998 film).But when Newton got a bit older and attended a Catholic primary school, the W of her name was quickly phased out in an effort to assimilate to the culture of the school. “We may as well have been the first Black people anyone had ever seen,” Newton said.
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