Thandiwe Newton, the acclaimed actress formerly known as Thandie Newton, is getting back to her roots. The 48-year-old "Westworld" star has had a long career on both the big and small screens and has always been known as Thandie -- but as it turns out, that isn't her birth name.
From here on out, the star will go by Thandiwe, she revealed in a new interview with British Vogue. Newton began to drop the "W" from her name when she was in school in an effort to minimize the discrimination against her as a young Black girl.
Once she entered show business, the letter was mistakenly left out of her name on her first credit. Her first listed credit on IMDb is the 1991 movie "Flirting," in which she is credited as Thandie.
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