Umlingisi waseMelika uPaul Newman udlule ngoLwesihlanu kusuka emdlalweni wamaphaphu. Ushonile epulazini lakhe laseConnecticut, ezungezwe umndeni nabangane, eneminyaka engu-83 ubudala.
Ukugula okungathí sina ku-actor, owayebizwa ngokuthi umnikazi wamehlo aluhlaza okwedlulele emlandweni we-cinema, wathola ekuqaleni kwalonyaka. E-New York's Cancer Center, uNewman wathola ukuhlolwa kwe-chemotherapy, kodwa odokotela abaphumelelanga: kwakudingeka avume ukuthi sekusele amasonto ambalwa nje ukuba umdlali abe nokuphila. Lapho ezwa ngalokhu, uPaul wenqaba ukwelashwa futhi wamcela ukuba abhale ekhaya ukuze asebenzise lesi sikhathi nabangani nezihlobo. Ngaphezu kwalokho, kwakudingeka ahlaziye intando yakhe.
UNewman wazalelwa ngoJanuwari 26, 1925 eCleveland. I-kinorol yokuqala yokuqala yefilimu yomlando ethi "The Silver Bowl" (1954) yahlangatshezwa ngokugxekwa ngamagayoni. Eminyakeni embalwa, wabeka uJameson Dean owayengakafiki, wadlala indima yebhokisi uRocky Graziano ebhayisikobho ethi "Omunye osezulwini uyangithanda." Kusukela kulo mzuzwana kufika eNewman udumo. Umsebenzi wakhe wokwenza umsebenzi wahlala iminyaka eyikhulu futhi waphela ngo-2007. Amafilimu akhe adumile kakhulu athi "I-Cat on the Hot-Roof" (1958), "Butch Cassidy noSundance Kid" (1969), "Afera" (1973), "Hell in the Sky" (1974). Wakhethwa izikhathi ezingu-10 ze-Oscar, okuyisishiyagalombili okhethwe yi-Best Actor. U-Oscar wakhe wokuqala u-Newman wathola indima yakhe efilimu yaseMartin Scorsese ethi "The Color of Money" (1986). Ngaphezu kwalokho, uPaul Newman ungumnikazi we-"Oscar" ngokufaka isandla sakhe ekufakeni ifilimu. Wabuye wakhiqiza imidwebo engu-10 nomdwebi wesikrini eminye eyisithupha.
UNewman wayaziwa kakhulu ngesimo sakhe somphakathi. UMengameli waseMelika uRichard Nixon wahlanganisa noPawulu, oyedwa wabo bonke abenzi befilimu, ohlwini lwakhe odumile "lwezitha zakhe ezingu-20." NgoFebruwari 2008, umdlali wezandla wayezozama isandla sakhe enkundleni yaseshashalazini: uhlele ukusetha umdlalo "Emasimini nabantu" esekelwe endabeni efanayo noJohn Steinbeck, kodwa babengenaso isikhathi.