After the film "Flirting" (1991), Newton played the slave "Yvette" in the Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise film "Interview with the Vampire" (1994). Newton appeared in the Merchant Ivory production of "Jefferson in Paris" as Sally Hemings, followed by Jonathan Demme's drama "Beloved", based on Toni Morrison's novel (1998), in which she played the title character, the ghost of a young slave girl whose mother murders her to save her from slavery. The film also starred Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. Newton then starred as Nyah Nordoff-Hall, again opposite Cruise, in "". Her next role was in the low-budget film "It Was an Accident", written by her husband, screenwriter Ol Parker.