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NEW YORK – In “Hard Truths,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the best performance you may not have seen yet. Directed by Mike Leigh, the searingly funny drama has flown somewhat under the radar ...

In 1997, the actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste became the first Black British woman to receive an Oscar nomination, for Mike Leigh’s suburban gut punch Secrets & Lies. She was heartbreaking in it ...

Both omissions reveal the worst about contemporary film culture. This isn’t simply a matter of actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s being ignored (despite already winning most of the season’s ...

Jean-Baptiste was sweeping awards season as critic groups’ choice for Best Actress of 2024 until Fernanda Torres took the fifth spot in the category at the Oscars. Though awards are nice ...

And we all know what hurt people do. Marianne Jean-Baptiste is Pansy, a middle-aged housewife living in London whose name belies her personality. Pansy is perpetually angry, and she directs her ...

Hard Truths star Marianne Jean-Baptiste has won the Outstanding Lead Performance award at the Black Reel Awards. The Mike Leigh film also won Outstanding International Film. The awards, also known as ...

Watch on Deadline Other notable winners tonight included Hard Truths star Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who won the gender-neutral Outstanding Lead Performance award. The Mike Leigh film also won ...

Leigh says he started work on his latest movie, Hard Truths, with one actor in mind: Marianne Jean-Baptiste. They'd last collaborated in 1996's Secrets in Lies, a drama about an adopted woman meeting ...