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name: "Nell Newman"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 April 1959"
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average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-20T05:06:22.985768+00:00"
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# Nell Newman

Actor. Born 8 April 1959 in New York City, New York.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 April 1959, New York City, New York
- **Also known as:** Nell Potts, Elinor Teresa Newman
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Newman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6990034, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0693449/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/942574

## Biography

Nell Newman, also credited as Nell Potts or Elinor Teresa Newman, is an American former child actress, biologist and entrepreneur. Born on 8 April 1959 in New York City, she is the daughter of actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

She appeared as Rachel as a child in *Rachel, Rachel* (1968), directed by her father and starring her mother, and as Matilda Hunsdorfer in *The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds* (1972). She later graduated from the College of the Atlantic in 1987 with a degree in human ecology.

In 1993 Newman co-founded Newman's Own Organics, an organic food and pet food company, and has worked in environmental conservation and sustainable agriculture.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, cwhf.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Rachel, Rachel* (1968), Fi1m 73, as Rachel as a child — [page](https://film.one/film/rachel-rachel.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds* (1972), as Matilda Hunsdorfer
- *Rachel, Rachel* (1968), as Rachel as a child — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/rachel-rachel.md)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Rachel Carson Award 2014: Rachel Carson Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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