In the movie "Beloved" with Oprah, how in the heck did the daughter come back to life? What was she?

Question

The daughter (whom died as a toddler) comes back out of the grave as a fully developed grown women? Did I miss something? Did you grow up in the grave?

Dear RC, that is NOT what I'm asking. How did a dead baby turn into a fully grown women who climbed out of the grave to torment her mother? I know who the actress was.

Answer 1

As I would understand it - she manifested from Oprah's guilt from killing her at infancy She wanted to make it up to her and earn her forgiveness by giving her the life she could have had. Unfortunately she ignored her other living daughter in the process and fell into madness.

Answer 2

Its open for interpretation, but she is just a ghost. If you read the book, it is easier to understand that she is a ghost and the reason she came back (with regards to her sister and mother). She was alive as a child, but comes back as a ghost after she is killed.

Answer 3

I thought she was dead from Day 1 and was basically the story-teller....it's a confusing film--the book explains it so much better.

Answer 4

If you are referring to the woman who ended up getting pregnant, that actress is Thandie Newton. She has appeared in many other films.

"Thandie Newton
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Thandie Newton in The Chronicles of Riddick
Born November 6, 1972 (age 34)
London
Notable roles The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
Crash (2005)

Thandie Newton (born Thandiwe Adjewa Newton on November 6, 1972) is a BAFTA Award-winning English actress.
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* 1 Biography
o 1.1 Early life
o 1.2 Career
o 1.3 Personal life
* 2 Filmography
* 3 Footnotes
* 4 External links

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[edit] Early life

Newton was born in London, to a white English lab technician and artist, Nick Newton, and a Zimbabwean health-care worker, Nyasha. The name "Thandiwe" means "beloved" in Ndebele. Newton played a character named "Beloved" in the film adaptation of the Toni Morrison novel Beloved in 1998. According to Newton, her mother is a Zimbabwean Shona Princess.[1] She was raised in Zambia and Penzance, Cornwall, England, and educated at Downing College, University of Cambridge.

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Newton made her film debut in Flirting (1991). This Australian movie was also a launch pad for a young Nicole Kidman, with whom she has remained friends. She gained international recognition opposite Nick Nolte in the Merchant-Ivory production of Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemmings, which led to her being cast in Jonathan Demme's Beloved (1998), in which she played the title character and costarred with Danny Glover, Kimberly Elise, and Oprah Winfrey. She played the female lead Nyah Hall in the film Mission: Impossible II. When this film went over schedule, she had to pull out of the film Charlie's Angels, and her character ultimately went to Lucy Liu.

Newton recently played Kem, the love interest of Dr. John Carter on the American television series ER. She also appeared in The Chronicles of Riddick. She appeared in Crash as a wealthy black woman who, along with her husband, finds herself the target of a racist policeman (played by Matt Dillon). The policeman molests her before ultimately saving her life. Newton was honoured with a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress in 2006. Crash also won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2005.

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Newton married English writer and director Ol Parker in 1998. The couple have two daughters: Ripley, born in 2000, and Nico, born in 2004. Her daughter was named in honor of the character Ripley in the Alien films.[citation needed]

She is friends with Nicole Kidman, who recommended her to her then-husband Tom Cruise as the female lead in Mission: Impossible II. She is also extremely close with the powerful British media family the Adams-Taylors; whose eldest daughter, Jessica, is a childhood friend, and godmother to her daughter Ripley.

In 2006, she contributed a foreword to We Wish: Hopes and Dreams of Cornwall's Children, a book of children's writing published in aid of the NSPCC. In it, she writes vividly about her childhood memories of growing up in Cornwall and the way in which the county's vibrant cultural heritage made it easy for her to "enrich every situation with layers of magic and meaning"."