Photo: Getty Images Thandie Newton regularly delights on the red carpet, but at last night’s premiere of Dumbo, she delivered a particularly special style moment. The Tim Burton film features the onscreen debut of Newton’s 14-year-old daughter, Nico Parker, and mother and child coordinated their looks to commemorate the occasion. Newton arrived at Los Angeles’ El Capitan Theater in a ruby fringed cocktail number from Oscar de la Renta and Parker sported Mikimoto pearl earrings and a deep green Gucci minidress with an age-appropriate pink bow, in effect delivering dual perspectives on how to wear velvet. Styled by Jason Bolden with Ippolita jewels and strappy sandals, Newton was flawless as always, but the night belonged to Parker, who made waves at her first major event as an actress. Her proud parents looked on as she stepped into the spotlight, and so Parker began her Hollywood career on a high note.<doc-sep>Talk about a family resemblance! Thandie Newton recently walked the red carpet with her daughter, Nico Parker, and there was no question the two are related. The resemblance is uncanny! Gregg DeGuire / FilmMagic Parker, 14, is making her big-screen debut in Disney’s live-action “Dumbo,” and both her mom and her dad, writer and director Ol Parker, joined her at the premiere in Los Angeles. Newton and her daughter were an adorable mother-daughter pair at the premiere. They both rocked gorgeous curls and they even wore coordinated, velvet dresses for the occasion. Parker was joined by her proud parents. Emma McIntyre / Getty Images The “Westworld” star looked like she couldn’t be prouder of her daughter as they walked the red carpet and posed for photos. What a sweet mother-daughter duo! ROBYN BECK / Getty Images It wasn't the first time the pair have walked the red carpet together. Back in 2016, Parker made an adorable appearance with her mom at the opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Hollywood. The pair have walked the red carpet together before. Frazer Harrison / Getty Images Lately, Newton has been gushing about her daughter on Instagram. “My heart could barely take it! My beautiful little girl at her first photo shoot for @dumbo coming out next Spring,” she wrote in a post in December, alongside a photo of Parker having her makeup done. “Seeing how effortlessly my kid owned her space, and invited attention only on her terms, was a healing and triumphant experience.” It certainly seems like Parker has been holding her own during the whirlwind press events for “Dumbo.” She looked so much like her actress mom as she smiled during a press conference earlier in the week. Parker was all smiles at a recent "Dumbo" press conference. Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images With Parker following in her mother’s acting footsteps, maybe we’ll be seeing more sweet mom-daughter moments on the red carpet!<doc-sep>Nico Parker and Thandie Newton attend the premiere of Disney’s ‘Dumbo’ at El Capitan Theatre on March 11, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Photo : Emma McIntyre ( Getty Images ) If you’ve seen the trailer for Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of Dumbo, you likely caught a glimpse of a very (very) familiar face. Indeed, child actress Nico Parker gives new meaning to the phrase “mini-me,” her radiant little face the spitting image of her famous mother, Thandie Newton. Advertisement The now 14-year-old Parker and Newton took their twinning moment to the red carpet on Su nday night, appearing at Dumbo’s Hollywood premiere in coordinating velvet dresses and natural curls styled by Nai’vasha Johnson, who also cultivates the manes of Yara Shahidi, Danai Gurira, Serena Williams, Janelle Monae and Indya Moore. The duo was styled by Jason Bolden (who styles Shahidi, Janet Mock and Taraji P. Henson and Ava DuVernay), Newton in a strapless burgundy cocktail dress by Oscar de la Renta with jewels by Neil Lane, and Parker in age-appropriate olive and pink Gucci. Posting on Instagram, Newton was every bit the proud mama celebrating her daughter’s first film, thanking her team “for helping me look like the Mama she deserves to have”—as if she herself isn’t a well-established red-carpet slayer. From the looks of Nico, it runs in the family.<doc-sep>Thandie Newton has been giving us beauty and life inspiration for years, and now her 14-year-old daughter, Nico Parker, is here to take the reins. Last night, the mother-daughter duo stepped onto the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere of Dumbo. The film marks Parker's first starring role — and the start of the Internet's obsession with just how much the two look alike. It's like Newton has a younger, equally talented twin. Wait, how do genetics work again? Newton and Parker took the red carpet by storm in complementary red and green velvet gowns. Newton, stunning as usual, wore a strapless, draped velvet minidress, while her mini-me wore a deep green bell-sleeved dress complete with a bright pink bow. Newton's gorgeous curls were pulled into a low ponytail, perhaps in an effort to leave the spotlight to her daughter, whose beautiful, middle-parted curls are making me mighty envious. Makeup artist Mai Quynh finished Parker's look with deep green liner on the lower lash line, and you can thank hairstylist Nai’Vasha Johnson for finessing both ladies' next-level curls. Getty Getty Let's just say that after this debut, we're expecting a lot more future slayage from Parker. She clearly gets it from her mama. More celebrity hair inspo: Here's what we remember loving from the M.A.C. x Cinderella collection:<doc-sep>
Hollywood, make way for Nico Parker, please. The 14-year-old daughter of Thandie Newton and Ol Parker is making her acting debut in Tim Burton‘s adaptation of Dumbo, which just had its world premiere in Los Angeles on Monday night. In the film, based on the classic Disney story, Parker plays Milly Farrier, the daughter of former circus icon Holt Farrier (played by Colin Farrell). The 14-year-old scion’s real dad, Parker, is best known for writing and directing Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, and for writing the screenplays for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Her mom, of course, is Newton, who was recently nominated at the Golden Globes for playing the role of Maeve, a sentient robot, on HBO’s Westworld. Her history-making mom is also known for making political statements, whether that stems from her fashion choices on the red carpet or speaking out about Time’s Up and on-set inequality. Nico’s older sister, Ripley appears to be just as outspoken as their mother. (She recently made their mom “proud” when she cursed to the face of London’s former conservative mayor Boris Johnson while attending a show on the West End.) Dumbo is Parker’s first acting role (although she did appear as herself on the Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade in 2018 to promote the film). Before the film’s premiere, the young actress told Variety on the red carpet that her mom shied away from giving her acting advice. “I think she kind of stayed away from it because it would probably intimidate me a bit,” she told reporters, before adding that her award-winning mom has “been very helpful this whole experience, very supportive.” “I’m so thrilled for her, and she’s got me to be this she-tiger waiting to pounce at any moment, just looking after her,” Newton told Ryan Seacrest during E!’s 2019 Golden Globes red carpet coverage. And to prove her motherly support, Newton showed up to the premiere and posed with Parker, matching in velvet ensembles for the carpet. Not only do the two look alike, but they appear to share a similar sense of style as well, with Newton in a crimson Oscar de la Renta look and Parker in green Gucci. LOS ANGELES, CA – MARCH 11: Nico Parker and Thandie Newton attend the premiere of Disney’s “Dumbo” at El Capitan Theatre on March 11, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images) Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images Related: Victoria Beckham Mistook Thandie Newton for Zoe Saldana at SoulCycle