Denise Newman (actress)

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Denise Newman
Born
Cape Town
NationalitySouth African
OccupationActress
Years active1982-present
Notable workThe Endless River

Denise Newman is a South African actress.

Biography

Newman grew up in the Athlone neighborhood of Cape Town, the daughter of a garment worker. [1] She described herself as a lonely child who would create her own entertainment. [2] After graduating from Athlone High School in 1972, she moved to the United States to do a post-matric learnership. Newman returned to South Africa in 1974 to study social work and found a job at the housing office in Hanover Park. She discovered the Space Theatre, the only theatre in the country to have mixed casts and audiences without a permit, and was encouraged to work there by its director Brian Astbury. Newman worked by sweeping the floors and doing the actors' laundry before becoming a stage manager in 1979. Her first major acting role was in Political Joke, directed by Jean Naidoo and written by Peter Snyders. [1]

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In 1982, Newman made her film debut as Yvonne Jacobs, a colored supermarket clerk who falls in love with a white man, in City Lovers. [3] In 1985, she starred in the comedy film Two Weeks in Paradise. [4]

In 2009, Newman played the lead in Shirley Adams , directed by Olivier Hermanus. Her character is the mother of a 20-year-old son considering suicide after becoming quadriplegic in a school shooting. Newman received the Best Supporting Actress award at the Carthage Film Festival for her performance. [5] Ray Bennett of the Associated Press wrote that she gave an "extraordinary performance" that "will set the bar for best actress awards this year if Oliver Hermanus' "Shirley Adams" wins the worldwide audiences it deserves." [6]

Newman played Tiny's mother in The Endless River in 2015, directed by Hermanus. [7] She began playing Bridgette October in the soap opera Suidooster in 2015. [8] She also played anti-apartheid activist Dulcie September in the one-act play Cold Case: Revisiting Dulcie September in 2015. Newman said that the role was very meaningful compared to her role as Daleen Meintjies in the soap opera 7de Laan. [1] The show was revived for a brief run in 2017. [2] In 2019, she had a guest role in season 2 of the crime series Die Byl. [9]

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  2. 1 2 "A CONVERSATION WITH DENISE NEWMAN". Sarafina Magazine. 25 April 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  3. ↑ Maslin, Janet (30 September 1982). "'CITY LOVERS' AND 'COMING OF AGE'". The New York Times . Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "Two Weeks in Paradise". BFI. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  5. ↑ Cheshire, Godfrey (17 November 2010). "THE 2010 CARTHAGE FILM FESTIVAL". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  6. ↑ "Shirley Adams -- Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter . Associated Press. 8 December 2009. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  7. ↑ "'The Endless River': Venice Review". The Hollywood Reporter . 9 June 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  8. ↑ "Leer ken Suidooster se Denise Newman". Netwerk24 (in Afrikaans). 16 November 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
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