A delayed shoot for Mission: Impossible II (2000) caused Thandie to turn down one of the lead roles in Charlie's Angels (2000). Lucy Liu was cast instead.

Ranked #48 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002)

Born on the same day as actress/model Rebecca Romijn.

Her full name, Thandiwe, means "beloved."

Voted by the readers of Black Men Magazine as one of "The 10 Sexiest Women of the Year." [2000]

She has a Zimbabwean mother and a British father.

First name pronounced "Tan-dee".

2:1 in anthropology from Cambridge.

Raised in Penzance, Cornwall, England.

Daughter Nico born mid December, 2004

Daughter, Ripley, born in London. [17 September 2000]

She named her daughter Ripley after the character played by Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979).

One of her fondest memories is watching her mother get dressed in her traditional African garb because it taught her black pride.

Her daughter Nico was born mid-December, 2004.

She named her daughter Ripley, after the character in the Sigorney Weaver film Alien (1979).